In the photo above: a group of the highest ranked participants of the 1st International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, which took place in Warsaw in 1935. From left to right: 3rd Prize winner Henry Temianka from Great Britain, 6th Prize winner Mary Luisa Sardo from Italy, 1st Prize winner Ginette Neveu from France and 2nd Prize winner David Oistrakh from the USSR. In the center, the winner of the 4th prize, Boris Goldstein (USSR).
1935 (Warsaw)
1st International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Ginette NEVEU – France
2nd Prize: David OISTRAKH – USSR
3rd Prize: Henry TEMIANKA – Great Britain
4th Prize: Boris GOLDSTEIN – USSR
5th Prize: Ljerko SPILLER – Jugoslavia
6th Prize: Mary Luisa SARDO – Italy
7th Prize: Ida HAENDEL – Poland
8th Prize: Hubert ANTON – Estonia
9th Prize: Bronisław GIMPEL – Poland
1952 (Poznań)
2nd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Igor OISTRAKH – USSR
2nd Prize: Julian SITKOVETSKY – USSR, Wanda WIŁKOMIRSKA – Poland
3rd Prize: Blanche TARJUS – France, Marina YASHVILI – USSR, Olga PARKHOMENKO – USSR
4th Prize: Emil KAMILAROV – Bulgaria, Edward STATKIEWICZ – Poland, Igor IWANOW – Poland, Henryk PALULIS – Poland
5th Prize: Csaba BOKAY – Hungary
Awards: Marta Hidy (Hungary); Ladislav Jásek (Czechoslovakia); Homi Kanga (India); Kalman Banyák (Hungary)
1957 (Poznań)
3rd International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Rosa FAIN – USSR
2nd Prize: Sidney HARTH – USA
3rd Prize: Mark KOMISSAROV – USSR
4th Prize: Augustin LEON-ARA – Spain
5th Prize: Ayla ERDURAN – Turkey
6th Prize: Vladimir MALININ – USSR
Awards: Jiri Sumpik (Czechoslovakia); Zenon Płoszaj (Poland); Jean Leber (France); Dora Iwanowa (Bulgaria); Daphne Godson (Great Britain)
1962 (Poznań)
4th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Charles TREGER – USA
2nd Prize: Oleh KRYSA – USSR
3rd Prize: Krzysztof JAKOWICZ – Poland
4th Prize: Isabella PETROSIAN – USSR
5th Prize: Miroslav RUSIN – USSR, Priscilla A. AMBROSE – USA
6th Prize: Tomasz MICHALAK – Poland
Awards: Andrzej Siwy (Poland); Aleksander Arenkow (USSR); Antoine Goulard (France); Evelio A. Tieles (Cuba); Jadwiga Kaliszewska (Poland)
1967 (Poznań)
5th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Piotr JANOWSKI – Poland
2nd Prize: Mikhail BEZVERKHNY – USSR
3rd Prize: Kaja DANCZOWSKA – Poland
4th Prize: Eduard TATEVOSIAN – USSR
5th Prize: Anatoli MELNIKOV – USSR
6th Prize: Michał GRABARCZYK – Poland, Mincho MINCHEV – Bulgaria
Awards: Maria Brylanka (Poland); Ginka Giczkowa (Bulgaria); Małgorzata Błażejewska (Poland)
1972 (Poznań)
6th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Tatiana GRINDENKO – USSR
2nd Prize: Shizuka ISHIKAWA – Japan
3rd Prize: Barbara GÓRZYŃSKA – Poland
5th Prize: Tadeusz GADZINA – Poland, Grachia ARUTIUNIAN – USSR
6th Prize: Stefan CZERMAK – Poland
7th Prize: Edward Zbigniew ZIENKOWSKI – Poland
Awards: Stefan Stałanowski (Poland); Magda Sarbu (Romania); Machie Oguri (Japan)
1977 (Poznań)
7th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Vadim BRODSKY – USSR
2nd Prize: Piotr MILEWSKI – Poland, Mikhail VAIMAN – USSR
3rd Prize: Zakhar BRON – USSR, Peter ZAZOFSKY – USA
4th Prize: Charles A. LINALE – France
5th Prize: Hiro KUROSAKI – Austria, Anna A. WÓDKA – Poland
6th Prize: Kazuhiko SAWA – Japan
Awards: Asa Konishi (Japan); Keiko Mizuno (Japan)
1981 (Poznań)
8th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Keiko URUSHIHARA – Japan
2nd Prize: Elisa KAWAGUTI – Japan
3rd Prize: Aureli BŁASZCZOK – Poland
4th Prize: Seiji KAGEYAMA – Japan
5th Prize: Iwao FURUSAWA – Japan
6th Prize: Megumi SHIMANE – Japan
Awards: Lenuta Atanasiu-Ciulei (Romania); Bartosz Bryła (Poland); Lothar Strauss (NRD); Magdalena Suchecka (Poland)
1986 (Poznań)
9th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Evgeny BUSHKOV – USSR
3rd Prize: Nobu WAKABAYASHI – Japan, Robert KABARA – Poland
4th Prize: Viktor KUZNETSOW – USSR
5th Prize: Alexander ROMANUL – USA
6th Prize: Hiroko SUZUKI – Japan
Awards: Dorota Siuda (Polska); Lothar Strauss (NRD); Oleg Pochanowskij (USSR); Patricia Shih (Canada)
1991 (Poznań)
10th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Bartłomiej NIZIOŁ – Poland, Piotr PŁAWNER – Poland
2nd Prize: Chie ABIKO – Japan
3rd Prize: Reiko SHIRAISHI – Japan
4th Prize: Monika JARECKA – Poland
5th Prize: Tomoko YOSHIMURA – Japan
Awards: Jarosław Żołnierczyk (Poland); Sebastian Gugała (Poland); Roland Orlik (Poland); Eijin Nimura (Japan); Ewa Pyrek (Poland); Erika Dobosiewicz (Poland)
1996 (Poznań)
11th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: not awarded
2nd Prize: Reiko OTANI – Japan
3rd Prize: Akiko TANAKA – Japan
4th Prize: Asuka SEZAKI – Japan, Łukasz BŁASZCZYK – Poland
5th Prize: Anna RESZNIAK – Poland
6th Prize: Maria Małgorzata NOWAK – Poland
Awards: Chiyoko Noguchi (Japan); Elina Vähälä (Finland); Andrzej Hop (Poland); Erika Dobosiewicz (Poland); Karina Buschinger (Germany)
2001 (Poznań)
12th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Alena BAEVA – Russia
2nd Prize: Soojin HAN – South Korea, Roman SIMOVIĆ – Yugoslavia
3rd Prize: Gaik KAZAZIAN– Armenia, Bracha MALKIN – USA, Hiroko TAKAHASHI – Japan
4th Prize: Mayuko KAMIO – Japan
5th Prize: Jarosław NADRZYCKI – Poland
6th Prize: Alexandra WOOD – Great Britain
Awards: Nicolas Dautricourt (France), Jakub Haufa (Poland), Mariusz Morys (Poland)
2006 (Poznań)
13th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Agata SZYMCZEWSKA – Poland
2nd Prize: Airi SUZUKI – Japan
3rd Prize: Anna Maria STAŚKIEWICZ – Poland
4th Prize: Lev SOLODOVNIKOV – Russia
5th Prize: Maria MACHOWSKA – Poland, Jarosław NADRZYCKI – Poland
6th Prize: Wojciech PŁAWNER – Poland
Award: Simeon Klimashevskiy – Russia
2011 (Poznań)
14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Soyoung YOON – South Korea
2nd Prize: Miki KOBAYASHI – Japan
3rd Prize: Stefan TARARA – Germany
Honorary distinctions: Erzhan Kulibaev (Kazakhstan); Aylen Pritchin (Russia); Arata Yumi (Japan)
2016 (Poznań)
15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition
1st Prize: Veriko TCHUMBURIDZE – Georgia/Turkey
2nd Prize ex aequo: Bomsori KIM – South Korea
2nd Prize ex aequo: Seiji OKAMOTO – Japan
4th Prize: Luke HSU – USA
5th Prize: Richard LIN – Taiwan/USA
6th Prize: Maria WŁOSZCZOWSKA – Poland
7th Prize: Ryosuke SUHO – Japan
