Klaudia Taev Competition

Winners of the Klaudia Taev Competition with the artistic director of the competition Mr.Erki Pehk

The Klaudia Taev Competition is a competition for young opera singers. It is a main event of the Pärnu Opera Music Festival PromFest. The Competition has been named after a local legendary singing teacher Klaudia Taev. The first Competition was held in year 1996 and since 2001 it takes place biannually.[1]

Among others Barbara Hendricks, Edda Moser, Yevgeny Nesterenko, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Ileana Cotrubas, Karan Armstrong, Sergei Leiferkus and Irina Arkhipova have been the jury members of the Klaudia Taev Competition .

Prize winners

No.Year1st Prize2nd Prize3rd Prize
1.1996Kristina Vähi (soprano, Estonia) Taina Hirvonen (Finland)Monika Sutt (Estonia)
2.2001Anna Samuil (soprano, Russia) not awardedGediminas Tiškevičius (tenor, Lithuania)
Klavdia Sorokina (soprano, Russia)
Merle Silmato (mezzo-soprano, Estonia)
3.2003Laimonas Pautienius (baritone, Lithuania)Tatjana Romanova (soprano, Estonia)
Elena Semyonova (soprano, Russia)
Eleonore Marguerre (soprano, Germany)
4.2005not awardedAnzhelina Shvachka (mezzo-soprano, Ukraine)
Zhu Huiling (mezzo-soprano, China)
Ewa Biegas (soprano, Poland)
5.2007Ji-Min Park (tenor, South-Korea) Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano, Russia)Ilya Silchukov (baritone, Belarus)
Oliver Kuusik (tenor, Estonia)
6.2009not awardedAnatoli Sivko (bass, Belarus)Asmik Grigorjan (soprano, Lithuania)
Pauliina Linnosaari (soprano, Finland)
Maria Veretenina (soprano, Estonia)
7.2011not awardedAndrey Sauchanka (baritone, Belarus)Elina Šimkus [Volkmane] (soprano, Latvia)
8.2013Jomante Šležaite (soprano, Lithuania)Anna Denisova (soprano, Russia)Leo Radoslavljevic (baritone, United States)
9.2015Sunghyun Kim (tenor, South-Korea)Ewa Tracz (soprano, Poland)Yury Rostotsky (tenor, Russia)
Rihards Millers (baritone, Latvia)

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