COMPETITION
FLAME
SINCE 1990
Winners
2023
PIANO
1st Special prices:
10 to 13 years old: Lucie LE BALC'H (France)
18 to 26 years old: Hoharu SUZUKI (Japan)
VIOLIN
1st Special prices :
6 to 9 years old: Cléa LAVORGNA (France)
10 to 13 years old: Maelys LAURIAC (France)
18 to 26 years old: Hanna-Rosa EMILSSON (Germany)
CELLO
1st Special Prize
10 to 13 years old: Yeji LEE (South Korea)
Special prize FLAME president
14 to 17 years old: Valentijn JEUKENDRUP (Holland)
2022
PIANO
1st Grand Prix : Jean NADRIGNY (France)
Special prices:
6 to 9 years old: Lucie Le Balc'h (France)
10 to 13 years old: Yuan LU (France)
14 to 17 years old: Stéfan BOUCABEILLE (France)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prix : Margotte RAINETEAU (France)
Special prices :
6 to 9 years old: Léo WANG (France)
10 to 13 years old: Linda BENMAMAR (France)
14 to 17 years old: Sean JANG (USA)
CELLO
1st Grand Prize: Lynn RENPOUIL HATA (France/Japan)
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Aleksandra Maria TRALLA (Estonia)
SINGING
1st Prize tied: Sungwoo HWANG (South Korea)
Yran JIA (China)
3rd Prize: Laura JARREL (France)
2021
PIANO
1st Grand Prize: Lucie RAYNAL (France)
Special Prizes :
6 to 9 years old: Théo GRUNDMANN-BRECHET (France)
10 to 13 years old: Valentin BOUCHARD (France)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize : Léo COURALET (France)
Special Prizes :
6 to 9 years old: Sora LAVORGNA (France/Japan)
10 to 13 years old: Morgane PLASSARD (France)
18 to 25 years old: Margotte RAINETEAU (France)
CELLO
Special Prizes
10 to 13 years old: Zoé COFFINET (France)
14 to 17 years old: Alexandre FROCHET (France)
SINGING
1st Prize: Kyeyoung KIM (South Korea)
2020
PIANO
competition canceled
VIOLIN
competition canceled
2019
PIANO
1st Grand Prize: Sophie CHARMASSON (France)
Special Prize
14 to 16 years old: Andras LAVATOS (Bulgaria)
1st Prize : not awarded
2nd Prize: Andrew Uang (USA)
3rd Prize: Arina LAZGIIAN (Russia)
VIOLIN
2nd Prize: Or NAKACHE (Israel)
CELLO
Special Prize:
10 to 13 years old: Marco MESSINA (France)
1st Prize: Maxime QUENNESSON (France)
2nd Prize: Arthur HUEL (France)
3rd Prize: Carlo LAY (Germany)
SINGING
1st Prize ex aequo: Ren SEN et WANZHOU Heng (China)
3rd Prize: Lucie EDEL (France)
2018
PIANO
1st Grand Prize: Gur SARGSYAN (Armenia)
Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Nandin OTGONBAYAR (Mongolia)
Lucille RAYNAL (France/New-Zeland)
10 to 13 years old: Kacper KUKLINSKI (Poland)
14 to 16 years old: Mario BOBOTSOV (Bulgaria)
VIOLIN
1st Special prizes:
10 to 13 years old: Léo COURALET (France)
14 to 16 years old: Martyna BOGUINA (Poland)
17 to 19 years old: Karolina PODORSKA (Poland)
CELLO
17 to 19 years old: Fabian STURM (Germany)
2017
PIANO
1st Special prizes:
6 to 9 years old: Mariia CHORVATOVA (Ukraine)
10 to 13 years old: Ana-Maria UZUNOVA (Bulgaria)
17 to 19 years old; Arthur HINNEWINKEL (France)
VIOLIN
1st Special prizes:
6 to 9 years old: Rafael JIMENEZ (France)
10 to 13 years old: Milena PIORUSKA (Poland)
14 to 16 years old: Laura OCHMANN (Germany)
CELLO
6 to 9 years old: Lynn RENOUIL-HATA (Japan/France)
10 to 13 years old: Maxime GRIZARD (France/Germany)
14 to 16 years old: Elliot LERIDON (France)
2016
PIANO
1st Grand Prize: Sophie DRUML (Austria/USA)
1st Special prizes:
6 to 9 years old: Marija Misela JAUNZEME (Lettonia)
10 to 13 years old: Carmen SOTTILE (Italy)
14 to 16 years old: Mathis CATHIGNOLS (France)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize: Lucrezia LAVINO MERCURI (Italy)
1st Special prize :
17 to 19 years old: Camille THEVENEAU (France)
CELLO
Special Prizes
6 to 9 years old: Anna-Tessa TIMMER (Germany)
10 to 13 years old Ex-Aequo: Rafael ARREGHINI (France)
Joël GENIET (France)
14 to 16 years old Ex-Aequo: Benjamin KRUITHOF (Luxembourg)
Clara DIETLIN (France)
2015
PIANO
1st Grand Prize: Nour AYADI (Morocco)
1st Special Prizes:
6 to 9 years old: Albina SHUMAKOVA (Ukraine)
10 to 13 years old: Nathan COHEN (France) & Marie FERRIEU (France)
1st Prize: Rafaël LIPSTEIN (Germany)
2nd Prize : Kunal LAHIRY (USA)
3rd Prize : Tristan SAVELLA (USA)
SINGING
1st Prize (unanimous) : Sung-Hook KIM (South Korea)
2nd Prize : Ju In YOON (South Korea)
3rd Prize : Sung Hoon CHOI (South Korea)
2014
PIANO
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Alicia SZINDZIELORZ (Poland)
10 to 13 years old: Georgi CHIKOLOV (Bulgaria)
14 to 16 years old: Nagino MARUYAMA (Japan)
1st Prize : Richard KOGIMA (Brasil)
2nd Prize : Ilya RAMLAV (Russia)
3rd Prize Ex aequo : Jakub TUSZYNSKI (Poland)
Jina SEO (South Korea)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize : Elias David MONCADO (Germany)
1ers Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Marie-Aude Mellies (France)
Vicky-Lou TIMMER (Germany)
14 to 16 years old: Sarah JEGOU SAGEMAN (France)
1st Prize ex aequo : Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
Grégoire GIRARD (France)
3rd Prix: Lucie KOCI (Czech Republic)
CELLO
1st Grand Prize : Ganbat CHINGUUN (Mongolia)
1st Special Prizes
6 to 9 years old: Maya DEVANE (France)
14 to 16 years old: Danielle AKTA (Israel)
1st Prize: Gleb STEPANOV (Russia)
2nd Prize: Julie SEVILLA-FRAYSS (France)
3rd Prize ex aequo : Michèle PIERRE (France)
Kato FUMIE (Japan)
SINGING
1st Prize ex-aequo : Arete TEEMETS (Estonia)
Marion LEBEGUE (France)
2nd Prize : Elizabeth Laure MOUSSOUS (Cameroon)
3rd Prize : Anas SEGUIN (France)
2013
PIANO
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Nathan COHEN (France)
10 to 13 years old: Nagino MARUYAMA (Japan)
Fréderic LOBODA (Poland)
14 to 16 years old: Jan BIENASZ (Poland)
17 to 19 years old: Nikola DRAGOVASAC (Serbia)
1st Prize : Nadejda TZANOVA (Bulgaria)
2nd Prize ex-aequo: Ryutaro SUZUKI (Japan)
Hyo-Geon SHIN (South Korea)
3rd Prize : Ilya RAMLAV (Russia)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize : Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
1st Special Prizes
10 to 13 years old: Mikhail MITROFANOV (Russia)
14 to 16 years old: Sarah JEGOU-SAGEMAN (France)
CELLO
1st Grand Prize ex-aequo : Li LA (China)
Manuel LIPSTEIN (Germany)
1st Special Prize
14 to 16 years old: Lukas PLAG (Germany)
2012
PIANO
1st Special Prix
6 to 9 years old: Alla AMIRKHANYAN (Armenia)
Mariam HARUTYUNYAN (Armenia)
10 to 12 years old: Andrea LU (France)
Jérémie MOREAU (France)
13 and 14 years old: Maria TIMOCHENKO (Russia)
1st Prize : Natalya KAZARYAN (USA)
2nd Prize : Sélim MAZARI (France)
3rd Prize : Anastasia YASKO (Russia)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize : Shai NAKACHE (Israel) 15 and 16 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Pauline VAN DER REST (Belgium)
10 to 12 years old: Lilya CHIFMAN (France)
13 and 14 years old: Sarah JEGOU (France)
CELLO
1st Grand Prize : Mariona CAMATS (Spain) 13 to 14 years old
1st Special Prizes
13 and 14 years old: Sebastian KOZUB (Poland)
SINGING
1st Prize ex-aequo : Victor SICARD (France)
Meredith HOFFMANN-THOMSON (USA)
3rd Prize : Xiaohan ZHAI (China)
2011
PIANO
1st Grand Prize :
Abdahmed ORAZBAKOV (Kazakhstan) 10 to 12 years old
1st Special Prizes
6 to 9 years old: Gayane SAHAKYAN (Armenia)
10 to 12 years old: Jérémie MOREAU (France)
2nd Prize : Nina SHUSTOVA (Russia)
Valentin COTTON (France)
3rd Prize : Rina MORI (Japan)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize :
Audrey VOISIN (France-Germany) 6 to 9 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Lior LENEMAN (France)
10 to 12 years old: Kaoru WAKAMATSU (Japan)
1st Prize : David PETRLIK (France)
2nd Prize : George TUDORACHE (Romania)
3rd Prize : Anastasia KARIZNA (Belorussia)
CELLO
1st Grand Prize : Ekaterina ZHUK (Russia) 15 and 16 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Yuan HIOKI (Japan)
10 to 12 years old: Chinguun GANBAT (Mongolia)
15 and 16 years old: Shunishiroi KATSURA (Japan)
1st Prize : Ivan KARIZNA (Belorussia)
2nd Prize : Elisa HUTEAU (France)
3rd Prize : Jee Yon KIM (South Korea)
4th Prize : Francisco Vila (Spain)
Special Prize « Festival International Mendelssohn » :
Elisa HUTEAU (France)
VIOLA
2e Prix : Manuel VIOQUE-JUDDE (France)
2010
PIANO
1st Grand Prize : Diana COOPER (France) 10 to 12 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Andrey KURBET (Armenia)
Nikolai MARINOV (Bulgaria)
10 to 12 years old: Diana COOPER (France)
Rafayel GRIGORYAN (Armenia)
Armine TEVANYAN (Armenia)
13 and 14 years old: Nathalia MILCHTEIN (France)
15 and 16 years old: Jorge Emilio GONZALES-BUAJASAN (Cuba)
1st Prix : Oleksandr CHUGAI (Ukraine)
2nd Prix : Schaun CHOO (Singapore)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize : Linda GUO (Germany-China) 10 to 12 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years: Lilya CHIFMAN (France)
10 to 12 years: Grégoire GIRARD (France)
SINGING
1st Prize : Clara MELONI (Italy)
2nd Prize : Julie GEBHART (Belgium)
2009
PIANO
1st Grand Prize :
Jean-Paul GASPARIAN (France) 13 to14 years old
1stSpecial Prize
6 to 9 years old: Marina DANIELYAN (Armenia)
10 to 12 years old: Yundi XU (China)
13 and 14 years old: Jan STEPP (Germany)
15 and 16 years old: Edgar MOREAU (France)
Mélisande QUENTZEL (France-USA)
1st Prize : Anna PELETSIS (Russia)
2nd Prize : Tatiana DARDYKINA (Russia)
Desislava BOBRINA (Russia)
3rd Prix : Marine MARCEL (France)
Special Prize Gaby Casadesus : Lalageh Ebrahimian (Armenia)
Special Prize Jean-Jacques Painchaud : Quiachu LI (China)
SINGING
1st Prize : Julie FUCHS (France)
2nd Prize : Alexandre DUHAMEL (France)
3rd Prize : Julia VACARU (Romania)
Special Prize Robert Kettelson : Lu Zhi QUAN (China)
VIOLIN
1st Grand Prize :
Lara BOSCHKOR (Germany) 6 à 9 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Lilya CHIFMAN (France)
10 to 12 years old: Dorothea STEPP (Germany)
Raphaëlle MOREAU (France)
13 and 14 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
1st Prize : Rachel GIVELET (France)
2nd Prize : Omer BOUCHEZ (France)
3rd Prize : Ambroise AUBRUN (France)
Special Prize Dimitri Chorafas :
George Claudin TUDORACHE (Romania)
VIOLA
1st Prize : Sarah CHENAF (France)
CELLO
1st Prize : Yuki ITO (Japan)
2nd Prize : Valériane BONNET (France)
3rd Prize : Edgar MOREAU (France)
Laure-Hélène MICHEL (France)
Léonard FREY-MAIBACH (France)
Special Prize Jacqueline Heuclin
Léonard FREY-MAIBACH (France)
2008
PIANO
1st Grand Prize : Jora SARGSYAN (Arménie) 13 and 14 years old
1st Special Prize
6 to 9 years old: Ambre KALIL (France)
10 to 12 years old: Victoire-Théodora PRUVOST (France)
Zéphyrine FESNEAU (France)
1st Prize : Yun-Yang LEE (South Korea)
2nd Prize : Yedam KIM (South Korea)
3rd Prize : Christophe ALVAREZ (France)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg :
Marine MARCEL (France)
CELLO
1st Prize : Jacob SHAW (United Kingdom)
2nd Prize : Olivia GAY (France)
3rd Prize : Marion PLATERO (France)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg :
Armance QUERO (France)
VIOLIN
1st Special Prizes
10 to 12 years old: Raphaëlle MOREAU (France)
Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
1st Prize : Vanessa SZIGETI (France-Romania)
2nd Prize : Gaëlle Anne MICHEL (France)
3rd Prize : Guillaume LATOUR (France)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg :
Clémence de FORCEVILLE (France-South Korea)
VIOLA
Special Prize: Adrien BOISSEAU (France)
SINGING
1st Prize : Heng SHI (China)
2nd Prize : Guillaume ANDRIEUX (France)
3rd Prize : Ani SARGSYAN (Armenia)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg :
Andra Maria BIVOL (Romania)
2007
PIANO
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Naïra GHAZARYAN (Armenia)
10 to 14 years old: Jean-Paul GASPARIAN (France)
15 and 16 years old: Jeanne HOUREZ (France)
Andreas WILDNER (Austria)
1st Prize : Hyun-Jung LIM (South Korea)
2nd Prize : Isaac SEO (Canada)
Aleksandra ROSCHINA (Russia)
3rd Prize : Näri BADAL (France) ;
Suzanna BARTAL (France)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg:
Charlotte COULAUD (France)
Pinko WEN (Taiwan)
VIOLIN
1st Prize
10 to 14 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
Max LEIBOVICH (France)
1st Prize : Jaha LEE (South Korea) ; Joseph ANDRE (France)
3rd Prize : Viktoria KAUNZNER (Germany)
Ji-Hyun LEE (South Korea)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg:
Gaëlle Anne MICHEL (France)
SINGING
1st Prize : Gaëlle ARQUEZ (France)
2nd Prize : Delphine Da PONTELLO (France)
Aleksandra RESZTIK (Poland)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg:
Sorin Adrian DIMITRASCU (Romania)
2006
PIANO
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Esther ASSUIED (France)
Zéphyrine FESNEAU (France)
10 to 13 years old: Ingmar LAZAR (Romania)
14 to 16 years old: Victor METRAL (France)
1st Prize : Tristan PFAFF (France)
2nd Prize : Nicolas Van NUIYS (Belgium)
3rd Prize : Henrick MAWE (Sweden)
Tatiana ALEXANDROVA (Russia)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg:
Honoré BEJIN (France)
Maxime PERRIN (France)
SINGING
1st nominated: Yi-Yuan DONG (China)
VIOLIN
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Raphaëlle MOREAU (France)
10 to 13 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
14 to 16 years old:Clémence de FORCEVILLE (France-South Korea)
2nd Prize: Roman PATOCHKA (Czech Republic)
Sang-Mee HUH (South Korea)
CELLO
1st Prize: Reynould FORD (United Kingdom)
2nd Prize: Louis RODDE (France)
3rd Prize: Charles WATT (United Kingdom)
Scholarship at the Mozarteum in Salzburg:
Jacob SHAW (United Kingdom)
Eoin QUINLAN (United Kingdom)
2005
PIANO
1st Prize
10 to 13 years old: Zéphyrine FESNEAU (France)
Norayr ALTUNIAN (Armenia)
Sélim MAZARI (France)
14 to 16 years old: Anahid DILBARYAN (Armenia)
Isabelle COTTET (France)
1st nominated: Denis IVANOV (Russia)
Jean Christophe DIJOUX (France)
Diana SAHAKYAN (Armenia)
Sofya GULBADAMOVA (Russia)
CELLO
Kenji NAKAGI (Japan)
Antanina ZHARAVA (Russia)
Askar ISHANGALIEV (Kazakhstan)
VIOLIN
1st Prize
10 to 13 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
Yu-Ting CHEN (Taiwan)
Clémence de FORCEVILLE (France-South Korea)
1st nominated: Julien SZULMAN (France)
Jae Won LEE (South Korea)
Clara ABOU (France)
Viktoria KAUNZNER (Germany)
VIOLA
Adeliya CHAMRINA (Russia)
François MARTIGNE (France)
SINGING
1st nominated : Anna KASYAN (Georgia)
2004
PIANO
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Zéphyrine FESNEAU (France)
10 to 12 years old: Ingmar LAZAR (Romania)
13 and 14 years old: Thomas JACQUET (France)
15 and 16 years old: Armen MENASSIAN (Armenia)
1st nominated: Eric ARTZ (France)
Claire CHEN (France)
J. Miguel AMARAM (Portugal)
VIOLIN
1st Prize
10 to 12 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
Clémence de FORCEVILLE (France-South Korea)
CELLO
Tristan CORNUT (France)
Samuel COPPIN (Australia)
2003
PIANO
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Zéphyrine FESNEAU (France)
10 to 12 years old: Ingmar LAZAR (Romania)
Mia BODET (France)
Carles MARINE (Spain)
Justine VERDIER (France)
Guillaume COPPOLA (France)
VIOLIN
1st Prize
6 to 9 years old: Hildegarde FESNEAU (France)
10 to12 years old: Clémence de FORCEVILLE (France-South Korea)
Mia BODET (France)
Violaine DARMON (France)
2002
PIANO
1st Prize
10 to 12 years old: Valentine VIGNON (France)
Mia BODET (France)
Anne-Claire LANTENOIS (France)
Anya HJBANOVA (Russia)
VIOLIN
Gaétan BIRON (France)
2001
PIANO
1st nominated : Laurent DURUPT (France)
Florence GENISSON (France)
Daria FADEVA (Russia)
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2000
PIANO
Antoine PEYRE (France)
Alain MARINARO (France)
VIOLIN
1st nominated : Marina CHICHE (France)
Ching Yun TU (Taiwan)
1999
PIANO
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VIOLIN
Aude LEFEVRE (France)
1998
PIANO
1st nominated : Lorène de RATULD (France)
Olivier MOULIN (France)
Sato KATSUSHIGE (Japan)
VIOLIN
1st nominated: Radu BLIDAR (France-Romania)
CELLO
1st nominated: Guillaume MARTIGNE (France)
1997
PIANO
1st nominated : Dona SEVENE (France)
Maria BRZES (Poland)
Katia KRIVOKOCHENKO (Russia)
Inga SARKANE (Lettonia)
Christophe FERRY (France)
Ratimir MARTINOVIC (Yugoslavia)
VIOLIN
Sylvaine GUILLOTEAU (France)
Olga SHPITKO (Ukraine)
Ji-Wan PARK (South Korea)
1996
PIANO
Juliana STEINBACH-LESSA (Brazil)
Philippe GUILHON (France)
Vita PANOMARIOVAITE (Lithuania)
Eriko SANO (Japan)
Rustam ERZHAKOWSKY (Russia)
CELLO
Ekaterina EWALD (Poland)
1995
PIANO
1st nominated: Loïc LAFONTAINE (France)
Christelle ABINASR (France)
Bertrand GIRAUD (France)
Tatiana KRASNOBOROVA (Russia)
Mayako ASADA (Japan)
Special Prize: Ludmilla TCHOUDINOVA (Russia)
CELLO
Maryse CASTELLIO (France)
1994
PIANO
Philippe CASTAING (France)
Hélène HUMEL (France)
Maria GOLOVKINA (Russia)
Vadim GLADKOV (Ukraine)
CELLO
Bertrand MALMASSON (France)
Julien CHAPPOT (France)
1993
PIANO
David BISMUTH (France)
Leopold SERS (France)
Olga AVERIANOVA (Russia)
Dominique SKORNY (France)
Alexandre LEGER (France)
VIOLIN
Frédéric BIGA (France)
CELLO
Raphaëlle SEMEZIS (France)
Pia SEGERSTAM (Finland)
1992
PIANO
Vesselin STANEV (Bulgaria)
Pierre MANCINELLI (France)
Roman FLORESCU (Romania)
Nathalie SEROR (France)
Daniele PETRALIA (Italy)
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1991
PIANO
Christelle HOLLEVILLE (France)
François GASSION (France)
Henry BONHAMY(France-Romania)
VIOLIN
Kai GLEUSTEEN (Canada)
Véronique TERLECKI (France)
1990
PIANO
Fernando ROSSANO (Italy)
Philippe REVERCHON (France)
Carlos APELLANIZ (Spain)
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