The organist Adrien Pièce from western Switzerland won third place ex aequo with the Italian Deniel Perer - a graduate of the Basel Music Academy - at the 2013 Paul Hofhaimer Prize in Innsbruck (2000 euros each).
This year, two second prizes (3,500 euros each) went to Austrian Martin Riccabona and Frenchwoman Charlotte Marchandise in the competition, which is held every three years.
In the history of the competition, the first prize has only been awarded five times. Brett Leighton (1979), Andrea Marcon (1986), Bine Katrine Bryndorf (1989), Luca Scandali (1998) and Mirko Ballico (2007) are the only ones to have won a first prize so far.
The jury consisted of Reinhard Jaud (Innsbruck), Jörg Andreas Bötticher (Basel), Pieter van Dijk (Alkmaar), Jan Willem Jansen (Toulouse), Karin Nelson (Gothenburg) and William Porter (Montreal). The program included compositions by Alessandro Poglietti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Hans Leo Hassler and Paul Hofhaimer.
