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Harriet Cohen International Music Award

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The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others in 1951, in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen.

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1950s

1951
  • Philippe Entremont – Piano Medal
    • 1954
  • Ingrid Haebler – Beethoven Medal
    • 1955
  • Donald Bell – Arnold Bax Memorial Medal, outstanding student from the Commonwealth
  • Jacques Klein
  • Richard Farrell - Medal for Piano
  • Kenneth Schermerhorn
    • 1956
  • Rohan de Saram
    • 1957
  • Mario delli Ponti – Bach Medal
  • Adam Harasiewicz, for outstanding achievement in piano
    • 1958
  • Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Jean Sibelius Composition Medal
  • Miguel Querol Gavalda – Gold Medal
  • Peter-Lukas Graf
    • 1959
  • Theo Bruins - Beethoven medal
  • Glenn Gould – Bach Medal
  • İdil Biret – Dinu Lipatti gold medal
  • Luis Garcia-Renart – Cello Prize

    • 1960s

    1960

  • Joaquín Achúcarro – Best Debut of the Year
  • Piet Kee – Bach Medal
  • Bogdan Paprocki – Opera Medal

    • 1961

  • Aafje Heynis – outstanding artistry
  • Oscar Mischiati – A. Davison Memorial Medal for Musicology

    • 1962

  • Barbara Hesse-Bukowska – British Medal
  • Byron Janis – Beethoven Medal (for best performance of two Beethoven Sonatas, the "Waldstein" and Opus 109)
  • Yonty Solomon – Beethoven Medal
  • Arve Tellefsen
  • Yaltah Menuhin / Joel Ryce

    • 1963

  • Vladimir Ashkenazy – Piano Prize (shared)
  • Norma Fisher – Piano Prize (shared)
  • Louise Talma – Sibelius Medal for Composition
  • Gloria Saarinen – Commonwealth Medal
  • Francis Chagrin – Film Composer of the Year
  • Anita Välkki

    • 1964

  • Bernadette Greevy
  • Nelson Freire

    • 1965

  • Martin Isepp – Carroll Donner Stuchell Medal for Accompanying

    • 1966

  • Marie Collier
  • Waleri Gradow (Valery Gradow)
  • Ronald Stevenson – for Busoni centenary radio programme (possibly award year was 1967)

    • 1967

  • José-Luis Garcia
  • François Glorieux

    • 1968

  • Roger Smalley – Contemporary music performance
  • Maureen Forrester – the Council's Prize
  • William Mathias – Bax Society Prize
  • Fernande Kaeser – Beethoven Medal
  • Fine Art Orchestra - Chamber Music Gold Medal

    • 1990s

    1996

  • Roger Owens

    • 2000s

    2001

  • Ilid Jones

    • 2002

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad (joint winner)
    • 2005
  • Victoria Davies, harpist

    • Dates not yet determined

  • Diane Andersen – Bach Medal
  • Sebastian Benda – Bach Medal
  • Jennifer Bullock
  • Edwin Carr
  • Maria Clodes (Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe) – best young pianist of the year
  • Paul Max Edlin
  • Christopher Green-Armytage
  • Jerome Jelinek – cello
  • Fernando Laires – Beethoven Medal (in memory of Artur Schnabel)
  • Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Gold medal for singing)
  • Elizabeth Powell
  • Abbey Simon
  • Erna Spoorenberg
  • Koji Toyoda – Bach medal
  • Valerie Tryon
  • Elena Vorotko – Bach Prize
  • Ronald Woodcock

    • References

    Harriet Cohen International Music Award Wikipedia
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