Past Winners of the Aviv Competitions
The Rafi Guralnik Prize for Piano
2020 Almog Segal
2018 Yuval Chen
2016 Alon petrilin
2014 Tomer Gewirtzman
2012 Raviv Leibzirer
2010 Boris Giltburg
2008 Roman Rabinovich
2006 Victor Stanislavsky
2004 Inon Barnatan
2002 Ran Dank
2001 Einav Yarden
2000 Dror Biran
1999 Iddo Bar-Shai
The Michal Oren Prize for Voice
2018 Sivan Keren
2015 Daniela Skorka
2012 Tal Ganor
2009 Rachel Frenkel
The Doris and Mori Arkin Prize for Voice
2006 Gal James
2003 Anna Virovlanski
The Eva and Georg Koigen Prize for the Best Performance of an Israeli Vocal Piece, donated by Mira Zakai
2018 Sivan Keren
2015 Daniela Skorka
2012 Gan-ya Ben-Gur Akselrod
Best Performance of an Israeli Vocal Piece Prize
2009 Mima Millo
Best Performance of an Israeli art Song
2003 Gal Games
The Ilona Kornhauser Prize for Violin, donated by the Kornhauser family of the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation
2020 Yamen Saadi
2014 Daniel Aizenshtadt
2011 Kobi Malkin
2008 Semion Gavrikov
1999 Sergei Ostrovsky
The Rachel and Dov Gottesman Family Prize for Viola
2020 Maya Tal
2013 Matan Noussimovitch, Shira Majoni
2010 Matan Gilitchensky
2007 Amihai Grosz
2004 Yuval Gotlibovich
The David Shallon Prize for Voila
2001 Nimrod Guaz
The and Dov Gottesman Family Prize for Cello
2018 Haran Meltzer
2015 Michal Beck
2012 Michael Katz and Daniel Mitnitsky
2009 Gal Nyska
2003 Carolina Singer
Best Performance of an Israeli Instrumental Piece
2020 Almog Segal (piano) and Jonathan Leibowitz (Clarinet)
The Ministry of Culture and Sport Prize for Best Performance of an Israeli Piece
2018 Elisha Kravitz
2016 Alon petrilin
2015 Talia Erdal
2014 Daniel Borovitzky
2013 Shira Majoni
2012 Michael Katz
2011 Hed Yaron Mayersohn
2010 Asaf Kleinman
2009 Yigal Kaminka
The Minister of Science, Culture and Sport Prize for Best Performance of an Israeli Piece
2008 Sivan Maayani-Zelikoff
2007 Lotem Beider
2003 Carolina Singer
2002 Ran Dank
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize for Best Performance of an Israeli Piece
2006 Victor Stanislavsky
2005 Benny Aghassi
2004 Carmel String Quartet
The Olja and Miriam Zilbermann Prize for the performance of an Israeli Piece
2000 Alexander Fiterstein
1999 Sergei Ostrovsky
The Benny Gal-Ed Award for Brass
2018 Noam Fresko
The François Schapira Prize for Composition
2020 Udi Perlman
The François Schapira Prize for Woodwinds
2015 Amit Dubester
2012 Margarita Timoshin
2009 Yigal Kaminka
2006 Moran Katz
2003 Mor Biron
2000 Alexander Fiterstein
The Susan and Emanuel (Bob) Kornhauser Prize for Woodwinds, donated by the Kornhauser Family of the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation
2020 Jonathan Leibowitz
The Susan and Emanuel (Bob) Kornhauser Prize for Brass
2014 Gal Raviv
The Rachel and Dov Gottesman Family Prize for Brass
2011 Alon Stoler
The François Schapira Prize for Brass
2008 Eyal Cohen
2005 Yuval Shapiro
1999 Sergei Gambarian Z”L
The Adele and John Gray Prize for Composition
2013 Amit Gilutz
2011 Asaf Matityahu
The Yuri Ahronovitch Prize for Conducting
2008 Daniel Cohen
2005 Yaniv Dinur
The Samuel-Pierre Tarcali Prize for Guitar
2007 Shani Inbar
The Samuel-Pierre Tarcali Prize for Old Music Instruments 2005 Benny Aghassi
The Minister of Education, Culture and Sport Prize for Early Music Instruments
2001 Uri Smilansky
The Doris and Mori Arkin Prize for Mandolin 2007 Avi Avital
The Doris and Mori Arkin Prize for Plucked String Instruments
2004 Yaniv Attar
The Bilhah Davis Prize for Chamber Music
2004 Carmel String Quartet
2001 “Percadu” – Tomer Yariv & Adi Morag
The Meira Geyra “Audience Choice” Prizes
2020 Almog Segal
2018 Yuval Chen (piano), Michal Doron (singing), William Weil (cello), Noam Fresko (brass)
2016 Alon petrilin, Nir Rom Nagy
2015 Maayan Licht, Oded Hadar, Rotem Bartan
2014 Tomer Gewirtzman, Yuval Wolfson, Yuval Herz
2013 Matan Noussimovitch, Eliav Kohl, Amit Gilutz
2012 Margarita Timoshin, Raviv Leibzirer, Michael Katz, Tal Ganor
2011 Nitzan Bartana, Nir Erez, Sivan Albo Ben-Hur
2010 Boris Giltburg, Matan Gilitchensky
2009 Yigal Kaminka, Gal Nyska, Mima Millo, Alon Sariel
2008 Roman Rabinovich
2007 Amihai Grosz
2006 Moran Abulof
2005 Kinneret Sieradzki
2004 Carmel String Quartet, Inon Barnatan
2003 Carolina Singer
Winners of Competitions Previous to the Aviv Competitions
The François Schapira Prize
Bassoon – Maurizio Paez
Cello – Hillel Zori, Zvi Plesser, Konstantin Sokolov, Gavriel Lipkind, Amit Peled
Clarinet – Yevgeni Yehudin
Flute – Margalit Gafni, Michael Melzer, Eyal Ein-Habar
Guitar – Yehuda Schryer
Harpsichord – Shalev Ad-El
Oboe – Dudu Carmel
Piano – Liora Ziv-Li, Zecharia Plavin, Sara Janovski-Tal, Michal Tal, Ilan Rechtman,
Arnan Wiesel, Eitan Globerson, Arnon Erez, Alon Goldstein, Genadi Zagor, Anna Keiserman
Percussion – Benny Kunievsky, Chen Zimbalista
Recorder – Eyal Lerner
Trombone – Nitzan Haroz
Violin – Ani Schnarch, Guy Braunstein, Roi Shiloah
Voice – Danny Ettinger, Anat Efraty, Dana Glazer
The Rafi Guralnik Prize for Piano
Aviram Reichert, Alon Goldstien, Tal Weissman, Ohad Ben-Ari, Gil Garbourg, Assaf Fire
The Ilona Kornhauser Prize for Violin
Donated by the Kornhauser Family of the Canada-Israel Cultural Foundation
Hagai Shaham, Guy Braunstein, Alexander Pavlovsky
