The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others, in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen.
It is to be distinguished from the Harriet Cohen Bach Prize, established in 1994, for the most deserving pupil at the Royal Academy of Music in the field of Bach piano playing.
Recipients
1950s
1951 Philippe Entremont – Piano Medal
1954 Ingrid Haebler – Beethoven Medal
1955 Donald Bell – Arnold Bax Memorial Medal, outstanding student from the CommonwealthDonald Bell Jacques Klein Richard Farrell – Medal for Piano Kenneth Schermerhorn
1956 Rohan de Saram
1957 Eduardo Vercelli (Buenos Aires, 1935 – Geneva, 1993) 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 PrizeBard College Press Release (3.8.01) Woodstock Chamber Orchestra concert at Bard College features world premiere of work by Jonathan Russell and Works by Rameau and Saint-Saens]
1960s 1960 Joaquín Achúcarro – Best Debut of the Year Piet Kee – Bach Medal Bogdan Paprocki – Opera Medal
1961 Elliott Carter – Sibelius Medal for Composition 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 RyceYaltah Menuhin Biography (page 5) Diane Andersen – Bach Medal
1963 Vladimir Ashkenazy – Piano Prize (shared) Norma Fisher – Piano Prize (shared)Royal Northern College of Music Norma Fisher 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 CollierPhilippa Johnson, "Top honour for Marie", The Herald (Melbourne), 19 January 1967, p18 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 PrizeThe Canadian Encyclopedia Maureen Forrester William Mathias – Bax Society PrizeOxford University Press William Mathias 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 Sebastian Benda – Bach Medal Jennifer Bullock Edwin Carr Maria Clodes (Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe) – best young pianist of the year Paul Max Edlin Christopher Green-ArmytageUEA School of Music Instrumental Tutors Jerome Jelinek – cello Fernando Laires – Beethoven Medal (in memory of Artur Schnabel)Eastman School of Music: Fernando Laires Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Gold medal for singing) Elizabeth PowellSydney Conservatorium of Music: Elizabeth Powell Abbey SimonMoores School of Music: Abbey Simon Erna Spoorenberg Koji Toyoda – Bach medal Valerie Tryon Elena Vorotko – Bach Prize Ronald WoodcockNational Piano and Violin Competition 2005 (Word document)
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