Tanja Becker-Bender is the recipient of numerous prestigious prizes ands awards:
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1st Prize, Violin Solo, German National Youth Competition "Jugend musiziert" (1992 and 1996) |
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1st Prize, Jakob Stainer Violin Competition (Münster, 1993) |
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Sheldon Morgenstern Award of the Eastern Music Festival USA (1994) |
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1st Prize, "Concours International de Musique de Chimay" of the ECF Brussels (1995) |
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Winner of the Instrumental Competition of the "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben" (1996-2001), resulting in the loan of a violin by G.B. Guadagnini (Parma 1761), owned by the Federal Government of Germany.
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1st Prize, International Violin Competition "Premio Rodolfo Lipizer" in Gorizia, Italy (1996) |
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2nd Prize (no 1st Prize awarded), International Music Competition (CIEM) in Geneva (1998). |
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"Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award" 2000 in Tokyo in an international competition of the best students of the Vienna University, Paris Conservatory and Juilliard School in New York. |
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"Premio Niccolò Paganini", International Violin Competition 2001 in Genoa, Italy: 3rd Prize and the Special Prize for the best performance of a contemporary work. |
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2002 winner of the instrumental competition
of the foundation "Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben", resulting
in the loan of a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù
(Cremona 1728), owned by "Blue
de Brasil" of the Fazenda Impiranga. |
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Houston Symphony League Award 2004 (USA) |
