Award winners
- 2025
- 1st prize Liya Wang
- 2nd prize Elias Ackerley
- 3rd prize Jiwon Yang
- Publikumspreis Liya Wang
- 2022
- 1st prize Lukas Sternath
- 2nd prize Junhyung Kim
- 3rd prize Johannes Obermeier
- 2017
- 1st prize JeungBeum Sohn
- 2nd prize Fabian Müller
- 3rd prize Wataru Hisasue
- Auftragskomposition Wataru Hisasue
- Publikumspreis Fabian Müller
- 2014
- 2nd prize Chi Ho Han
- 3rd prize Florian Mitrea
- 3rd prize Kang-Un Kim
- 2011
- 1st prize Alexej Gorlatch
- 2nd prize Tori (Claire) Huang (Huangci)
- 3rd prize Da Sol Kim
- 2006
- 1st prize Benjamin Kim
- 2nd prize Hisako Kawamura
- 2nd prize Marianna Shirinyan
- 2002
- 1st prize Denys Proshchayev
- 2nd prize Ferenc Vizi
- 3rd prize Shiao-Ying Chang
- 1999
- 2nd prize Oliver Kern
- 2nd prize Severin von Eckardstein
- 1997
- 2nd prize Özgür Aydin
- 3rd prize Etsuko Hirose
- 3rd prize Yiaohan Wang
- 1995
- 2nd prize Adrian Oetiker
- 3rd prize Claire-Marie Le Guay
- 1993
- 1st prize Anna Malikowa
- 2nd prize Ohad Ben Ari
- 1991
- 2nd prize Momo Kodama
- 3rd prize Valery Buerin
- 3rd prize Yoshikazu Jumei
- 1989
- 1st prize Susannne Grützmann
- 2nd prize Alexandre Tharaud
- 3rd prize Kyoko Tabe
- 1987
- 2nd prize Ricardo Castro
- 2nd prize Bernd Glemser
- 3rd prize Thomas Duis
- 1985
- 1st prize Kalle Randalu
- 2nd prize Daniel Gortler
- 3rd prize Ewgenij Rywkin
- 1983
- 1st prize Kei Itoh
- 3rd prize Andrei Nikolsky
- 3rd prize Hai-Kyung Suh
- 1981
- 2nd prize François Killian
- 3rd prize Chisato Ogino
- 3rd prize Rolf Plagge
- 1979
- 1st prize Hans-Christian Wille
- 2nd prize Marioara Trifan
- 3rd prize Kenji Watanabe
- 1977
- 3rd prize Chieko Oku
- 3rd prize Mario Patuzzi
- 1975
- 1st prize Diane Walsh
- 2nd prize Natasha Tadson
- 3rd prize Nina Tichman
- 1973
- 1st prize James Tocco
- 2nd prize Myung Whun Chung
- 3rd prize Gottfried Hefele
- 1972
- 1st prize Pi-hsien Chen
- 3rd prize Roland Keller
- 1971
- 2nd prize Marian Migdal
- 2nd prize Martino Tirimo
- 3rd prize Carolyn Moran
- 1970
- 2nd prize André de Groote
- 2nd prize Akiko Kitagawa
- 1969
- 2nd prize Wilfried Kassebaum
- 2nd prize Erika Lux
- 3rd prize Piotr Paleczny
- 1968
- 1st prize Anne Queffélec
- 3rd prize Mériem Bléger
- 3rd prize Yuko Fujimura
- 1967
- 2nd prize Elena Tatulian
- 3rd prize Anthony Goldstone
- 3rd prize Valerij Kastelskij
- 1966
- 1st prize Claude Savard
- 3rd prize Mitsuko Uchida
- 1965
- 1st prize Judith Burgänger
- 3rd prize Dag Achatz
- 3rd prize Hanae Nakajima
- 1963
- 2nd prize Evelyne Flauw
- 2nd prize Edith Fischer
- 3rd prize Dolores Holtz
- 1962
- 2nd prize Christoph Eschenbach
- 3rd prize Milena Mollowa
- 3rd prize Lis Smed Christensen
- 1961
- 2nd prize Pavica Gvozdic
- 3rd prize Alexandra Ablewicz
- 3rd prize Maureen Beeken
- 1960
- 2nd prize Thérèse Castaing
- 3rd prize Evelyn Ursat
- Yoko Kono
- 1959
- 1st prize Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr
- 2nd prize Gernot Kahl
- 2nd prize Norman Shetler
- 1958
- 1st prize Hans Eckart Besch
- 2nd prize Michael Ponti
- 2nd prize Dieter Weber
- 1957
- 1st prize Thérèse Dussaut
- 2nd prize Sumiko Inouchi
- 1956
- Award winner Robert Alexander Bohnke
- Award winner James Mathis
- Award winner Eduard Mrazek
- 1954
- Award winner Ingrid Haebler
- Award winner Fernande Kaeser
- 1953
- Award winner Alexander Sellier
- Award winner Edouard Vercelli
- 1952
- Award winner Alberto Colombo
- Award winner Laurence Davis
- Award winner Peter Wallfisch