CIA Merit Awards

Recognising oustanding contribution to the international accordion movement.


YEAR NAME and COUNTRY CONGRESS
1963 Hermann SCHITTENHELM (Germany) BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY
1964 Ernst BORGSTROM (Canada) TORONTO, CANADA
1965 Carmen ABELA (Malta) VALLETTA, MALTA
1972 Joe BIVIANO (USA)
Hans BUSCHER (Germany)
Charles CAMILLERI (Malta)
Emil CARRERA (France)
Carmen CARROZZA (USA)
Max CASTELLI (England)
Pietro DEIRO Jr. (USA)
Domingo DOGLIO (Venezuela)
Max FRANCY (France)
Anthony GALLA-RINI (USA)
Lari HOLZHAUER (USA)
Walter MAURER (Austria)
M. MÜLLER-BLATTAU (Germany)
Adolph OEHRLI (Switzerland)
A. Th. PINO (Netherlands)
Lech PUCHNOWSKI (Poland)
Ladislav VACHULKA (CSSR)
Charles VANHOVE (Belgium)
ZEIST, NETHERLANDS
1973 Armin FETT (Germany)
Francis WRIGHT (United Kingdom)
VICHY, FRANCE
1975 Jim J. BLACK (United Kingdom) HELSINKI, FINLAND
1977 Richeard EDMUNDS (Canada) EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
1979 Hubert KICKEN (Netherlands) VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1979 André ASTIER (France) CANNES, FRANCE
1981 Allan JONES (New Zealand) KANSAS CITY, USA
1982 Walter BILGER (Germany)
Emil BÖTTCHER (Germany)
Karl Albrecht MAJER (Austria)
HAMBURG, GERMANY
1985 Eugene ETTORE (USA) PARIS, FRANCE
1986 WARSAW ACCORDION QUINTET (Poland)
Stanislaw MALEWSKI (Poland)
BIALYSTOK, POLAND
1988 Charles MAGNANTE (USA) TROSSINGEN, GERMANY
1991 Dietmar WALTHER (Germany) WIESBADEN, GERMANY
1992 Willard PALMER (USA)
Myron FLOREN (USA)
VIENNESE ACCORDION ENSEMBLE (Austria)
TROSSINGEN, GERMANY
1994 Maddalena BELFIORE (USA) MUNSTER, FRANCE
1995 Eddie HARRIS (England)
Joan SOMMERS (USA)
Mogens ELLEGAARD (Denmark)
WIESBADEN, GERMANY
1995 Nils FLACKE, (Sweden) AVESTA, SWEDEN
1996 Elsie BENNETT (USA)
Arlene BODDICKER (USA)
Lasse PIHLAJAMA (Finland)
DUNAJSKA STREDA, SLOVAKIA
1997 Sylvia ZOBEK (Austria) REINACH, SWITZERLAND
1998 Gerald BODDICKER (USA)
Karl PUKARA (Canada)
NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS
2000 Faithe DEFFNER (USA)
Radomir TOMIC (Yugoslavia)
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
2001 UMKC Accordion Orchestra (USA)
Jack EMBLOW (United Kingdom)
Ove HAHN (Sweden)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
2002 Sergei KOLOBKOV (Russia)
Vladimir BESFAMILNOV (Ukraine)
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
2003 Anatoli KUSJAKOV (Russia) HELSINKI, FINLAND
2003 Christine ADAMS (New Zealand)
Jacques MORNET (France)
William SCHIMMEL (USA)
STUROVO, SLOVAKIA
ESZTERGOM, HUNGARY
2004 Yvette HORNER (France)
Paul MARCHETTI (France)
Viatcheslav SEMIONOV (Russia)
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
2005 Ulrich SCHMULLING (Germany)
Peter ANDERS (Denmark)
Tatjana MARX (Australia)
Peter FREY (Switzerland)
Paolo PICCHIO (Italy)
Zoran RAKIC (Serbia & Montenegro)
Voislava VUKOVIC-TERZIC (Serbia & Montenegro)
Nguyen XUAN TU (Vietnam)
DEN HELDER, NETHERLANDS
2006 Arnold KUTZLI (Germany)
Tibor RACZ (Slovakia)
IKAALINEN, FINLAND
2007 Harley JONES (New Zealand)
Vjera ODAK-JEMBRIH (Croatia)
NAGIGIA ISLAND, FIJI
2008 Friedrich LIPS (Russia)
Manfred GÄBLER (Germany)
SKOPJE, MACEDONIA
2009 Alfred RENNER (Denmark)
Milana BARAČKOV-MALENICA (Serbia)
BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
2009 Kevin FRIEDRICH (New Zealand) AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
2009

Fritz DOBLER (Germany)
Yuri Ivanovich KASAKOV (Russia)
Luu Quang MINH (Vietnam)

ARRASATE, SPAIN
2011 Ikutaro KAKEHASHI (Japan)
Ziqiang ZHANG (China)
Timo SUOMI (Finland)
Anatoly Vladimirovitch BELYAYEV (Russia)
IKAALINEN, FINLAND
2012 Matti RANTANEN (Finland) MIESBACH, GERMANY
2012 Vladimir ZUBITSKY (Russia) SPOLETO, ITALY
2013 Joseph PETRIC (Canada)
Miljan BJELETIC (Serbia)
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2014 Luigi BRUTI (Italy)
Herbert SCHEIBENREIF (Austria)
EASTERN SARAJEVO,
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
2015 Vincenzo CANALI (Italy)
Alexander SKLYAROV (Russia)
PARIS, FRANCE
2016 Jürgen LÖCHTER (Germany)
Yuri SHISHKIN (Russia)
CALABRIA, ITALY
2017 Zorica KARAKUTOVSKA (Macedonia)
Mika VÄYRYNEN (Finland)
NÜRNBERG, GERMANY
(held in December 2016)
2017 Raymond BODELL (United Kingdom) OSIMO, ITALY
2018 Oswaldo de Almeida e SILVA (Brazil)
Werner WEIBERT (Austria)
KOKKOLA, FINLAND
2019 Congyu (Crystal) WANG (China)
Tiit KALLUSTE (Estonia)
TALLIN, ESTONIA
2020 Viktor VLASOV (Ukraine)
Veikko AHVENAINEN (Finland)
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
2021 Hans-Günther KÖLZ (Germany)
Oleg SHAROV (Russia)
Alexander DMITRIEV (Russia)
VIRTUAL CONGRESS
2022 Vojin VASOVIC (Serbia)
Ričardas SVIACKEVIČIUS (Lithuania)
ZOFINGEN, SWITZERLAND
2023 Ladislav HORÁK (Czech Republic)
Renzo RUGGIERI (Italy)
PAKS, HUNGARY