Past winners

1st Contest 1959 – Susanna Mildonian, Belgium

2nd Contest 1962 – Lynn Turner, U.S.A

3rd Contest 1965 – Martine Geliot, France

4th Contest 1970 – Chantal Mathieu, France

5th Contest 1973 – Nancy Allen, U.S.A

6th Contest 1976 – Ivan Ion Roncea, Romania

7th Contest 1979 – Emily Mitchell, U.S.A

8th Contest 1982 – Alice Giles, Australia

9th Contest 1985 – Naoko Yoshino, Japan

10th Contest 1988 – Isabelle Moretti, France

11th Contest 1992 – Marie-Pierre Langlamet, France

12th Contest 1994 – No First Prize Winner

13th Contest 1998 – Gwyneth Wentink, Holland

14th Contest 2001 – Letizia Belmondo, Italy

15th Contest 2003 – Varvara Ivanova, Russia

16th Contest 2006 – Sivan Magen, Israel

17th Contest 2009 – No First Prize Winner

18th Contest 2012 – Anaïs Gaudemard, France

19th Contest 2015 – Yuying Chen, China

20th Contest 2018 – Lenka Petrović, Serbia