Website: http://www.concoursgeneve.ch/

Category: Composition, Voice, String Quartet
Date: November 10 to 21, 2011
Country: Switzerland

Founded in 1939 by Swiss composer Henri Gagnebin and a musician from Vienna named Frédéric Liebstoeckl, the event is one of the most prestigious multi-disciplinary music competition in the world. Taking place annually in Geneva, it aims to promote the development of contemporary music and local Swiss compositions. Atop the twenty-six disciplines being selectively presented in alternation each year, a composition prize is newly introduced since 2011. Past winners include Jean-Paul Sévilla, Martha Argerich, Robert Alexander Bohnke, Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli, Annette Dasch, Fabio Di Casola, Sergei Koudriakov, Aiyun Huang.
The 2011 edition is devoted to voice and string quartet.