Laureates and Jury 1999

Elina Garanca and Marcin Bronikowski winners 1999 — More about the winners www.elinagaranca.com www.marcin-bronikowski.art.pl

Women

I prize Elina Garanca Latvia

II prize Olga Pasichnyk Ukraine

III prize Janice Creswell United States

III prize Maria Fontosh Russia

IV prize Byung-Soon Lee Korea

Men

I prize Marcin Bronikowski Poland

II prize Vladimir Baikov Russia

III prize Gabriel Suovanen Sweden

Prize for Young Talent:
Aleksandra Kurzak Poland
Timothy Sharp Germany/USA

Special Prize for the best foreign performance of a Finnish song:
Oana-Claudia Stefanescu Rumania

Special Prize for the performance of a contemporary work:
Gabriel Suovanen Sweden

Jury

Tom Krause (Chairman), Luigi Alva, Elly Ameling, Walter Berry, Grace Bumbry, Ileana Cotrubas, Matti Lehtinen, Jevgeni Nesterenko, Regina Resnik and Joan Sutherlan.