Previous winners

I International Paulo Cello Competition, 4–14 November, 1991

Xavier Phillips, France
Quirine Viersen, Netherlands
Henri Demarquette, France
Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Finland
Jean-Guihen Queyras, France
Jens Peter Maintz, Germany

II Competition, 3–15 November, 1996

Hai-Ye Ni, China
Oren Shevlin, UK
Perttu Kivilaakso, Finland
Inbal Segev Israel, ja Taneli Turunen, Finland
Ani Aznavoorian, USA

III Competition, 5-14 November, 2002

Enrico Bronzi, Italy
Rafal Kwiatkowski, Poland
Young-Hoon Song, South Korea
Chui-Yee Lee, Hong Kong/canada and Renaud Déjardin, France
Doo-Min Kim, South Korea

IV Competition, 13–24 April, 2007

Andreas Brantelid, Sweden/Denmark
Béatrice Reibel, France
Nicolas Altstaedt, Germany/France
Samuli Peltonen, Finland and Janina Ruh, Germany
Silver Ainomäe, Finland/Estonia

Special prizes:

The Raphaël Sommer Memorial Prize: Andreas Brantelid
The Finnish Broadcasting Company Prize: Stefano Cerrato, Italy

V Competition, 16–27 April, 2013

Kian Soltani, Austria (15 000 €)
Pablo Ferrández Castro, Spain (9 000 €) and
Aurélien Pascal, France (9 000 €)
Alexander Ramm, Russia/Lithuania (5 000 €)
Norbert Anger, Germany (2 000 €) and
Janina Ruh, Saksa (2 000 €)

Special prizes:

Lukas Stasevskij
(Finland, for the best performance of Preludio by Krzysztof Penderecki, 1 000 €)
Jonathan Roozeman
(Finland/Netherlands, for being the most prominent young talent, 1 000 €)

Shadow Jury Diploma: Kian Soltani