Harriet Cohen International Music Award

The Harriet Cohen International Music Award was founded in 1951 by Sir Arnold Bax and others in 1951, in honour of the British pianist Harriet Cohen.

Recipients

1950s

;1954
*Ingrid Haebler – Beethoven Medal

;1955
* Donald Bell – Arnold Bax Memorial Medal, outstanding student from the Commonwealth [ [http://www.sonybmgmasterworks.com/artists/artist_48.html?artist_name=donald_bell Donald Bell] ]
* Jacques Klein
* Kenneth Schermerhorn [ [http://www.artsjournal.com/adaptistration/archives/2005/04/nashville_symph.html Nashville Symphony's Music Director Passes Away] ] [ [http://www.nashvillesymphony.org/main.taf?p=2,2,1 Nashville Symphony - The Late Kenneth Schermerhorn] ]

;1957
* Mario delli Ponti – Bach Medal [ [http://www.iicsydney.esteri.it/NR/rdonlyres/F7E44692-78FF-44A0-82CA-3BC8F647097E/13853/InvitoMariodelliPonti2.pdf Concert brochure] ]
* Adam Harasiewicz, for outstanding achievement in piano [ [http://www.ddg.art.pl/chopin/jury/harasiew.html International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition] ] [ [http://www.associazionesarro.org/musicisti_dettaglio_eng.php?d=36&lnk=5 Associazione musicale culturale Domenico Sarro] ]

;1958
* Ahmet Adnan Saygun – Jean Sibelius Composition Medal [ [http://mssf.bilkent.edu.tr/eng/adnan.htm Adnan Saygun] ]
* Miguel Querol Gavalda – Gold Medal
* Peter-Lukas Graf

;1959
* Theo Bruins
* Glenn Gould – Bach Medal [ [http://www.glenngould.ca/conference/2007/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=59 Biography of Glenn Gould] ] [ [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/glenngould/028010-306.1-e.html Memorabilia: Medals] ]
* Luis Garcia-Renart – Cello Prize [ [http://music.bard.edu/html/faculty.html Making Music at Bard] ]

1960s

1960
* Joaquín Achúcarro – Best Debut of the Year [ [http://www.teatrocervantes.com/espectaculo_en.php?id=346 Teatro Cervantes] ]
* Piet Kee – Bach Medal [ [http://www.donemus.nl/componist.php?id=462&lang=EN Piet Kee] ]
* Bogdan Paprocki – Opera Medal [ [http://www.teatrwielki.pl/readme.php?book=wiadomosci&book_id=796&book_name=wiadomosc_42&nlang=en Bogdan Paprocki] ]

1961
* Aafje Heynis – outstanding artistry [ [http://www.dutchdivas.net/aafje_english.html Aafje Heynis] ]
* Oscar Mischiati – A. Davison Memorial Medal for Musicology

1962
* Barbara Hesse-Bukowska – British Medal [ [http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/news/mar99.html Polish Music Reference Center] ] [ [http://www.hipic.jp/5th/past/4th/eng/jury03.html Barbara Hesse-Bukowska] ]
* Byron Janis – Beethoven Medal (for best performance of two Beethoven Sonatas, the "Waldstein" and Opus 109) [ [http://masterscholars.med.nyu.edu/Faculty/HonoraryBios.html Honorary Master Scholar Biographical Sketches] ] [ [http://www.uri-geller.com/janis1.htm Byron Janis – Firsts or Distinctions] ]
* Arve Tellefsen [ [http://www.arvetellefsen.no/eng/utm.html Arve Tellefsen] ]
*Yaltah Menuhin / Joel Ryce [ [http://www.yaltahmenuhin.com/Biography.html Yaltah Menuhin Biography] (page 5)]

1963
* Vladimir Ashkenazy – Piano Prize (shared)
* Norma Fisher – Piano Prize (shared) [Royal Northern College of Music [http://www.rncm.ac.uk/?_id=356 Norma Fisher] ]
* Louise Talma – Sibelius Medal for Composition [ [http://www.omnidisc.com/Talma/Biography.html Louise Talma: Biography] ]
* Gloria Saarinen – Commonwealth Medal [ [http://famouscanadianwomen.com/on%20the%20job/musicians.htm Famous Canadian Women] ]
* Francis Chagrin – Film Composer of the Year [ [http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&ComposerId_2905=248 Francis Chagrin] ]

1964
* Bernadette Greevy [ [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2008/1004/1222959347156.html "The Irish Times", "Mezzo' s talent matched by uncompromising principles", October 4, 2008] ]
* Nelson Freire

1965
* Martin Isepp – Carroll Donner Stuchell Medal for Accompanying [ [http://www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/staffbiogs/isepp.htm Martin Isepp] ]

1966
* Marie Collier [Philippa Johnson, "Top honour for Marie", The Herald (Melbourne), 19th January 1967, p18]
* Waleri Gradow (Valery Gradow) [ [http://www.ticinomusica.com/CV/CVGradowENG.htm Valery Gradow] ] [ [http://www.muho-mannheim.de/personal/Bios/gradow-waleri.htm Waleri Gradow] ]
* Ronald Stevenson – for Busoni centenary radio programme (possibly award year was 1967) [ [http://www.ronaldstevensonsociety.org.uk/Actual_Index.asp?Color=669966&BG= Ronald Stevenson Society] ]

1967
* José-Luis Garcia [ [http://www.summermusicontheshannon.com/faculty/jose-luis-garcia.html José-Luis Garcia (Violin/Conductor) resumé] ]

1968
* Roger Smalley – Contemporary music performance [ [http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/?page=composers/composer.html&id=139 Roger Smalley] ]
* Maureen Forrester – the Council's Prize [The Canadian Encyclopedia [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001255 Maureen Forrester] ]
* William Mathias – Bax Society Prize [Oxford University Press [http://www.oup.co.uk/music/repprom/mathias/ William Mathias] ]

1990s

1996
*Roger Owens [ [http://www.claudiorecords.com/lisztpianoworks.html Franz Liszt Piano Works] ]

21st century

2001
* Ilid Jones [ [http://www.maslink.co.uk/cvs/oboes/jones(ilid).htm Ilid Jones] ]

2002
* Cheryl Frances-Hoad (joint winner) [ [http://www.cherylfranceshoad.co.uk/bio/bio.html Cheryl Frances-Hoad] ]

;2005
* Victoria Davies, harpist [ [http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/newsletter/Jan_2006/alumni.htm Alumni Page] ]

Dates not yet determined

*Diane Andersen – Bach Medal [ [http://diane-andersen.org/cveng.htm Diane Andersen] ]
*Sebastian Benda – Bach Medal [ [http://www.naxos.com/artistinfo/983.htm Sebastian Benda] ]
*Idil Biret – Dinu Lipatti gold medal [ [http://www.allegrovivo.org/focus_eng/default.asp?id=125 Allegro Vivo - jury] ]
*Jennifer Bullock [ [http://www.fleuri.co.uk/biographies.php Fleuri biographies] ]
*Edwin Carr
*Maria Clodes (Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe) – best young pianist of the year [ [http://www.nepta.info/meetings/biographies.html NEPTA Speaker Biographies for Monthly Meetings] ]
*Paul Max Edlin [ [http://www.dealfestival.co.uk/start/director.html Deal Summer Music Festival] ]
*Philippe Entremont – Piano Medal [ [http://www.arts.ufl.edu/icpa/11-17_PIANO_BROCHURE.pdf Fondation Bell’Arte] ]
*Christopher Green-Armytage [UEA School of Music [http://www.uea.ac.uk/mus/staff/insttut.html Instrumental Tutors] ]
*Jerome Jelinek – cello
*Fernande Kaeser – Beethoven Prize [ [http://www.umassmag.com/winter_2003/in_memoriam.html In Memoriam] ]
*Fernando Laires – Beethoven Medal (in memory of Artur Schnabel) [Eastman School of Music: [http://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/?id=98 Fernando Laires] ]
*Aase Nordmo Løvberg (Gold medal for singing) [ [http://www.ballade.no/nmi.nsf/doc/art2005102412002256595101 Nordprofil: Tale til Nordmo Løvberg] ]
*Elizabeth Powell [Sydney Conservatorium of Music: [http://www.music.usyd.edu.au/about/units/staff/keyboard.shtml#epowell Elizabeth Powell] ]
*Yonty Solomon – Beethoven Medal [ [http://www.iosoc.org/soloists.htm Past Soloists] ]
*Abbey Simon [Moores School of Music: [http://www.music.uh.edu/people/simon.html Abbey Simon] ]
*Erna Spoorenberg
*Koji Toyoda – Bach medal [ [http://www.suzukimethod.or.jp/english/E_mthd42.html World renowned teaching staff of the International Academy of the Suzuki Method] ]
*Valerie Tryon [ [http://www.mcmaster.ca/ua/opr/courier/nov600/news.html Honorary degree recipients] ]
*Elena Vorotko – Bach Prize [ [http://www.intermission.org.uk/elena.htm Elena Vorotko] ]
*Ronald Woodcock [ [http://www.nac.gov.sg/Data/news/243/(M)%20PR_NPVC2005%20Competition%20Starts.doc National Piano and Violin Competition 2005] (Word document)]

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