The list of Gaudeamus leareates offers listings of first prize winners of the international Gaudeamus competitions. The interpreters competetition and the composers competition are both held by the Gaudeamus Foundation.

First Prize in the International Interpreters Competition

• 1970 Bart Berman (Netherlands, piano)
• 1983 John Kenny (United Kingdom, trombone)
• 1991 Michael Lowenstern (United States, clarinet)
• 1997 Alan Thomas (United States, guitar)
• 1999 Ralph van Raat (Netherlands, piano)
• 2001 Tony Arnold (United States, soprano)
• 2003 Philip Howard (United Kingdom, piano)
• 2005 Ashley Hribar (Australia, piano)

Bart Berman (Rotterdam, December 29, 1938) is a Dutch-Israeli pianist and composer, best known as an interpreter of Franz Schubert and 20th century music. ... A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, which is widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ... Born in 1957 in Birmingham, John Kenny is a multi-faceted performer. ... A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Michael Lowenstern (b. ... Two soprano clarinets: a Bâ™­ clarinet (left) and an A clarinet (right, with no mouthpiece). ... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument characterized by its visually dominant body and neck. ... Look up Soprano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, which is widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ...

First Prize in the International Composers Competition

• 1962 Pauline Oliveros (United States) with the composition Sound Patterns
• 1972 Daniel Lentz (United States)
• 1974 Fabio Vacchi (Italy) with Soupirs de Genève
• 1984 Mauro Cardi (Italy)
• 1985 Unsuk Chin (Korea)
• 1986 Uros Rojko (Slovenia)
• 1987 Karen Tanaka (Japan)
• 1988 Michael Jarrell (Switzerland)
• 1989 Richard Barett (United Kingdom)
• 1990 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (Germany) and Paolo Aralla (Italy)
• 1991 Asbjorn Schaathun (Norway)
• 1992 Jörg Birkenkötter (Germany)
• 1993 David del Puer to (Spain)
• 1994 Richard Ayres (United Kingdom)
• 1995 Jesús Torres (Spain) and Michael Oesterle (Canada)
• 1996 Régis Campo (France)
• 1997 Hang Zou (China)
• 1998 Kumiko Omura (Japan) and Geoff Hannan (United Kingdom)
• 1999 Michel van der Aa (Netherlands)
• 2000 Yannis Kyriakides (Cyprus/Netherlands)
• 2001 Palle Dahlstedt (Sweden) and Takuya Imahori (Japan)
• 2002 Valerio Murat (Italy)
• 2003 Dmitri Kourliandski (Russia)
• 2004 Sampo Haapamäki (Finland) with Signature
• 2005 Oscar Bianchi (Italy/Switzerland)

Pauline Oliveros (born 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. ... Daniel Lentz (born 1942, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA) is a composer. ... Fabio Vacchi (pronounced Vahkie) is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna. ... Unsuk Chin (born 1961, Seoul) is a German-Korean composer of classical music. ... Korea (한국, Hanguk, or 조선, Choson) is a civilization and geographical area situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia, bordering China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast, with Japan situated to the southeast across the Korea Strait. ... Michael Jarrell (born October 8, 1958) is a Swiss composer. ...

See also

• Gaudeamus Foundation