Prize Winners of the Robert Schumann Competition 2025
Laureates of the Robert Schumann Competition 2025:
Category A
Liu, Menhe (China) – I Prize
Somboonvechakarn, Bayla Chanya (Thailand) – II Prize
Cheng, Zoe (Australia) – III Prize
Category B
I Prize – not awarded
Kwiatkowski, Jan (Poland) – II Prize
Petrenko, Ivan (Ukraine) – II Prize
Han, Yuliang (China) – III Prize
Category C
Lakatos, András (Hungary) – I Prize, Schumann Prize & EMCY Prize
Erdogan, Duru (Türkiye) – II Prize
Chen, Xingyu (China) – III Prize
Audience Prize
Liu, Menhe (China) – Category A
Kwiatkowski, Jan (Poland) – Category B
Lakatos, András (Hungary) – Category C
Prize Winners of the Robert Schumann Competition Düsseldorf 2017
Laureates of the 2017 competition:
Category A
1st Prize – Eva Gevorgyan (Russia)
2nd Prize – Ben Lepetit (Germany)
3rd Prize – Chaithawat Atiphophai (Thailand)
Category B
1st Prize – Shuan Hern Lee (Australia)
1nd Prize – Vasilii Petrenko (Russia)
3rd Prize – Clara Isabella Siegle (Germany)
Category C
1st Prize – Jaeyoon Lee (South Korea)
2nd Prize – Asuto Kitamura (Japan)
3rd Prize – Vladislav Fedorov (Russia)
Prize Winners of the Robert Schumann Competition Düsseldorf 2019
Laureates of the 2019 competition:
Category A
1st Prize – Simon Haje (Germany)
2nd Prize – Haozhou Wang (China)
3rd Prize – Weetiwat Siriwattanakorn (Thailand)
Category B
1st Prize – Yumeka Nakagawa (ex aequo) (Japan)
1st Prize – Daniel Nemov (ex aequo)
2nd Prize – Elia Cecino (Italy)
3rd Prize – not awarded
Category C
1st Prize – German Skripachev (Russia)
2nd Prize – not awarded
3rd Prize – Sofya Menshikova (ex aequo) (Russia)
3rd Prize – Ellen Lee (ex aequo) (USA)
Prize for best interpretation of a work by Robert Schumann
Momoka Chiba (Japan)
Prize Winners of the Robert Schumann Competition 2023
Laureates of the 2023 competition:
Category A
Elisey Mysin – I Prize (Russia)
Chaeryeong Kim – II Prize – ex aequo (South Korea)
Linda Yuan – II Prize – ex aequo (Germany)
Category B
Haruka Nakayama – I Prize (Japan)
Dmitrii Fedenko – II Prize (Russia)
Odric-Aurelian Gaspers – III Prize (Germany)
Category C
Roman Fediurko – I Prize, Schumann Prize & Audience Prize (Ukraine)
Vladimir Aćimović – II Prize & EMCY Prize (Serbia)
Hoi-Ching Sherri Lun – III Prize (China)
Magdalene Ho – Finalist Prize (Malaysia)
Participants from Category C admitted to the 3rd Round
PARTICIPANTS FROM CATEGORY C ADMITTED TO THE 3RD ROUND OF THE COMPETITION:
Category C
Aćimović, Vladimir;
Fediurko, Roman;
Ho, Magdalene;
Lun, Hoi-Ching Sherri
Schedule for acoustic rehearsal at the Robert-Schumann-Saal, Kunstpalast
Participants from Category A & B admitted to the 3rd Round
PARTICIPANTS FROM CATEGORY A & B ADMITTED TO THE 3RD ROUND OF THE COMPETITION:
Category A
Kim, Chaeryeong;
Mysin, Elisey;
Yuan, Linda
Category B
Fedenko, Dmitrii;
Gaspers, Odric-Aurelian;
Nakayama, Haruka
Participants from Category C admitted to the 2nd Round
PARTICIPANTS FROM CATEGORY C ADMITTED TO THE 2ND ROUND OF THE COMPETITION:
Aćimović, Vladimir
Bogomilov, Nikola
Fediurko, Roman
Ho, Magdalene
Jing, Zhenhua
Lun, Hoi-Ching Sherri
Padilla, Noelia Navas
Click here for the Category C Round II schedule (24 February 2023)
Participants from Category A & B admitted to the 2nd Round
PARTICIPANTS FROM CATEGORY A & B ADMITTED TO THE 2ND ROUND OF THE COMPETITION:
Category A
Fediurko, Oleksandr;
Gülenç, Arya Su;
Kim, Chaeryeong;
Mysin, Elisey;
Puengpipattrakul, Puri;
Yuan, Linda
Category B
Du, Linhaoyu;
Fedenko, Dmitrii;
Gaspers, Odric-Aurelian
Lüft, Helena;
Nakayama, Haruka;
Terziyska, Marie Lea;
Wu, Felix
Click here for the Category A schedule (23 February 2023)
Robert Schumann Competition 2023 – Round I schedule
To see the schedule for Round I of one of the categories, please follow the links below:
Robert Schumann Competition
Prize Winners of the Robert Schumann Competition Düsseldorf 2021
Laureates of the 2021 competition:
Category A
Daniil Tyurin – I Prize (Russia)
Jia Mohan – II Prize (China)
Wilhelmine Freytag – III Prize (Germany)
Category B
Nicolas Comi – II Prize (Switzerland)
Janick Čech – I Prize (Germany)
Nikita Vitusevich – II Prize (Russia)
Category C
Eda Seviniş – I Prize (Turkiye)
Giorgio Lazzari – I Prize (Italy)
Ellis Thomas – III Prize (Great Britain)
Sunah Kim – II Prize (South Korea)
Prize for best interpretation of a work by Robert Schumann
Giorgio Lazzari