This is a list of musicians who have been awarded in the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig since its foundation in 1950.
Piano
1 Tatiana Nikolayeva
2 Galina Feodorowa, Margarita Fyodorova
3 Jörg Demus, Waldemar Maciszewski
Organ
1 Amadeus Webersinke, Karl Richter
2 Ludwig Dörr, Gerhard Tipp
3 Walter Schönheit, Diethard Hellmann
Harpsichord
2 Ingrid Heiler
Voice
2 Eva Fleischer
3 Alina Bolechowska, Christa Maria Ziese
Violin
1 Igor Besrodny
2 Michail Waimann, Alexei Gorokhov
3 Werner Häutling, Agnes Vadas
Piano
1 Ilse Graubin
2 Wolfgang Wappler, Melita Dukowa-Kolin
3 Igor Lazko, Gerhard Erber, Brunhild Partsch
Organ
1 Petr Sovadina
2 Karl-Rainer Böhme, Andreas Buschnakowski
3 Jan Hora
Voice
1 Bruce Abel
2 Wolfgang Hellmich, Rolf Wollrad
3 Wladimir Swistow
Piano
1 Valery Afanassiev
2 Ivan Klánský
3 Evgeni Koroliov
Organ
1 Henning Wagner
2 Daniel Chorzempa
3 Christian Collum
Voice
1 Heidi Berthold-Riess
2 Eberhard Büchner
3 Siegfried Lorenz
Violin
1 Oleg Kagan
2 Christian Funke
3 Andras Kiss
Piano
1 Winfried Apel
2 Jean-Louis Steuermann
3 Michail Petuchow
4 Gabriele Kupfernagel
5 Wadim Sacharow
Organ
1 Heribert Metzger
2 Istvan Ella
3 Hans Fagius
4 Friedrich Kircheis
5 Gottfried Preller
Harpsichord
1 Lionel Party
2 Armin Thalheim
3 Gyöngyver Szilvassy
4 Alexander Sung
5 Magdalena Myczka
Voice – female
1 Rosemarie Lang
2 Regina Werner
3 Julianne Paszthy
4 Nadeshda Wainer
Voice – male
1 Dieter Weimann
2 Gheorghe-Emil Crasnaru
3 Peter Tschaplik
4 Frank-Peter Späthe
Violin
1 Wladimir Iwanow
2 Konrad Other
3 Lidija Schutko
Piano
1 Michail Woltschok
2 Larissa Dedowa
3 Dietmar Nawroth
4 Konstantin Preda
5 Emma Tachmisjan
Organ
1 Elisabeth Ullmann
2 Joachim Dalitz
3 Hartmut Rohmeyer
4 Matthias Eisenberg
5 Thomas Sauer
Voice – female
1 Carola Nossek
2 Katalin Pitti
3 Nannita Peschke
4 Ursula Ankele-Fischer
Voice – male
1 Waldemar Wild
2 Gábor Németh
3 Frieder Lang
4 Miloslav Podalsky
Violin
1 Nilla Pierrou
2 Thorsten Rosenbusch
3 Daniel Phillips
4 Ralf-Carsten Brömsel
5 René Henriot
Cello
1 Alexander Rudin
2 Yvan Chiffoleau
3 Josef Feigelson
4 Tamas Koó
5 Akiko Kanamaru
Piano
1 Anaid Nersesjan
2 Kei Itoh
3 Irina Berkowitsch
4 Bair Schagdaron
5 Gerald Fauth
Organ
1 Zsuzsana Elekes
2 Jaroslav Tůma
3 Kristiane Köbler
4 Bernhard Buttmann
5 Matthias Süß
Voice – female
1 Jadwiga Rappé
2 Liliana Bizineche
3 Monika Straube
4 Gabriele Pietschnigg
Voice – male
1 Yukio Imanaka
2 Andreas Sommerfeld
3 Christoph Rösel
4 Andreas Scheibner
Violin
1 Michael Erxleben
2 Thorsten Janicke
3 Waltraut Wächter
4 Carlos Egry-Bulnes
5 Dora Bratschkowa
Cello
1 Kerstin Feltz
2 Marin Cazacu
3 Michael Nellessen
4 Thomas Ahrndt
5 Matthias Bräutigam
Piano
1 Alexander Paley
2 Susanne Grutzmann
3 Noriko Kodama
4 Walery Pjasetzkij
5 Ueli Wiget
Organ
1 John Gavin Scott
2 Christoph Mehner
3 Michael Schönheit
4 Arvid Gast
5 Rainer Maria Rückschloß
Voice – female
1 Angela Liebold
2 Bettina Denner-Deckelmann
3 Constanta Adriana Mestes
4 Uta Selbig
Voice – male
1 Egbert Junghanns
2 Kenzo Ishii
3 Ralph Eschrig
4 Mario Hoff
Violin
1 Johannes Ludwig Von Schwartz
2 Birgit Jahn
3 Anna Rabinowa
4 Lothar Strauß
5 Kai Vogler
Flute
1 Wolfgang Ritter
2 Monika Hegedüs
3 Matthias Rust
4 Alison Mitchell
5 Karin Beck
Piano
1 Gerald Fauth
2 Nikolai Lugansky
3 Alexej Botowinow
4 Albrecht Hartmann
5 Megumi Hashiba
6 Dana Sasinowa
Organ
1 Martin Sander
2 Stefan Kircheis
3 Wolfgang Kläsener
4 Valter Savant-Levet
5 Andreas Strobelt
6 Markus Lang
Voice – female
2 Kerstin Klesse
3 Katherina Müller
4 Naomi Tsuji
5 Reinhild Wäntig
6 Bożena Harasimowicz
Voice – male
2 Matthias Bleidorn
3 Frank Schiller
4 Daniel Kaleta
5 Torsten Frisch
6 Fred Hoffmann
Violin
1 Antje Weithaas
2 Katrin Scholz
3 Kazimierz Olechowski
4 Hiroko Suzuki
5 Marat Bisengaliew
6 Denitza Kazakova
Cello
1 Marc Coppey
2 Michael Sanderling
3 Raphael Pidoux
4 Anton Istomin
5 Sybille Hesselbarth
6 Friedemann Ludwig
Piano
2 Ragna Schirmer
3 Juri Bogdanov
4 Yukiyo Endo
5 Anna Schibaeva Belo
Organ
2 Luca Antoniotti, Michael Bloss
3 Valter Savant-Levet
Harpsichord
2 Daniela Numico
3 Anikó Soltész, Mechthild Stark
4 Akiko Kuwagata
6 Agnes Várallyay
Violin
1 Rachel Barton
2 Thomas Timm, Axel Strauß
4 Albrecht Winter
Voice – female
1 Bogna Bartosz
2 Yvonne Albes
3 Alla Simonichvili
4 Antje Perscholka
5 Bettine Eismann
6 Irina Potapenko
Voice – male
2 Jochen Kupfer
4 Dietrich Greve
Piano
2 Cornelia Herrmann
3 Christopher Hinterhuber
Organ
No prize awarded
Harpsichord
3 Giampietro Rosato
Violin
2 Natsumi Tamai
3 Amanda Favier, Aki Sunahara
Voice – female
2 Klaudia Zeiner, Simone Kermes, Anne Buter
Voice – male
1 Christoph Genz
2 Ekkehard Abele
3 Ralf Ernst, Marcus Volpert
Piano
2 Ragna Schirmer
3 Miku Nishimoto-Neubert, Mari Kokuho
Cello
1 Emil Rovner
2 Renaud Déjardin
3 Ophélie Gaillard
Voice – female
1 Asako Motojima
2 Letizia Scherrer
3 Konstanze Maxsein
Voice – male
1 Jan Kobow
2 Andreas Post, Matthias Vieweg
3 Marcus Niedermeyr
Harpsichord
2 Wiebke Weidanz, Pieter Jan Belder
3 Philippe Leroy
Organ
1 Johannes Unger
2 Gunther Rost
3 Yuichiro Shiina
Piano
1 Martin Stadtfeld
2 Andrew Brownell, Eric Fung
Violin and Baroque violin
2 Laura Vikman
3 Sonja Starke
Voice – female
1 Franziska Gottwald
2 Sigrid Horvath
3 Barbara Tišler
Voice – male
1 Dominik Wörner
2 Daniel Johannsen
3 Seung-Hee Park
Cello and Baroque cello
1 Olivier Marron
2 Adam Mital
3 Richard Harwood
Voice
1 Julius Pfeifer
2 Trine Wilsberg Lund
3 Markus Flaig
Organ
1 Jörg Halubek
2 Elke Eckerstorfer
3 Frédéric Champion
Harpsichord
1 Francesco Corti
2 Ilpo Laspas
3 François Guerrier
Piano
1 Irina Zahharenkova
2 Varvara Nepomnyashchaya
3 Elena Vorotko
Violin and Baroque violin
1 Elfa Rún Kristinsdóttir
2 Mayumi Hirasaki
3 Dmitry Sinkovsky
Organ
1 Bálint Karosi
2 Ilpo Laspas
3 Lukas Stolhof
Voice
1 Marie Friederike Schoder
2 Margot Oitzinger
3 Jens Hamann
Cello and Baroque cello
1 Philip Higham
2 Toru Yamamoto
3 Davit Melkonyan
Piano
1 Ilya Poletaev
2 Stepan Simonian
3 Ekaterina Richter
Harpsichord
1 Maria Uspenskaya
2 Magdalena Malec
3 Nadja Lesaulnier
Violin and Baroque violin
1 Evgeny Sviridov
2 Shunsuke Sato
3 Friederike Starkloff
Organ
1. Johannes Lang
2. Sebastian Küchler-Blessing
3. Matthias Neumann
Voice
1. Dávid Szigetvári
2. Benno Schachtner
3. Matthias Winckhler
Cello and Baroque cello
1. Beiliang Zhu
2. Ditta Rohmann
3. Clara Pouvreau
Piano
1. Hilda Huang, United States
2. Schaghajegh Nosrati, Germany
3. Georg Kjurdian, Latvia
harpsichord
1. Jean-Christophe Dijoux, France
2. Olga Pashchenko, Russia
3. Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya, Russia
Violin and Baroque violin
1. Seiji Okamoto, Japan
2. Marie Radauer-Plank, Austria
3. Niek Baar, Netherlands