5th MKD 27 XI - 10 XII 1995

1st  award  – USD 5,000 and gold medal – Victoria Zhadko (Ukraine)

2nd  award – USD 4,000 and silver medal  – Hidehiro Shindori (Japan)

3rd  award – USD 3,000 and bronze medal – Achim Fiedler (Germany)

Distinctions, USD 1,500 each – Marco Parisotto (Canada)  and   Hiroyuki Shimizu (Japan)

Additional awards

Award of the Governor of the Katowice Province for the best rendition of a Polish oeuvre (PLN 2,000) – Achim Fiedler (Germany)

Awards of the Governor of the Bielsko-Biała Province (in PLN thousand) and mayor of Katowice (PLN 1,000) for the best Polish contestant (PLN 2,000) – Wojciech Sąkól (Poland)

Award of Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (facsimile editions of scores) – Marco Parisorro (Canada) (score of ‘The Black Mask’ by K. Penderecki), Hidehiro Shindori (Japan) (Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ by H. M. Górecki), Hiroyuki Shimizu (Japan) (Concerto for piano and orchestra by W. Lutosławski).

Medal of the Association of Polish Artists Musicians – Victoria Zhadko

Award of the Silesian branch of the Association of Polish Composers (set of scores of Silesian composers) for the best contestant from abroad – Victoria Zhadko

Award of the Orchestra of the State Silesian Philharmonic  – Hiroyuki Shimizu

Award of students of the Complex of State School of Music – Secondary Music School in Katowice  – Marco Parisotto

Concert invitations from the Provincial Symphony Orchestra, Silesian Opera House, the Polish Radio Orchestra from Warsaw, the Philharmonic in Odense (Denmark) – Victoria Zhadko, the Philharmonic in Białystok – Wojciech Sąkól. Furthermore, concert offers were made to the laureates by: philharmonics in Bratislava, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole and Wrocław, Silesian and Toruń chamber orchestras.