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COMPETITIONS
Simply Quartet
Jevgenijs Cepoveckis
Quartet Amabile
1 The Simply Quartet has won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition in Copenhagen, taking home €15,000. The quartet – violinists Danfeng Shen and Antonia Rankersberger, violist Xiang Lyu and cellist Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald – was founded in 2008 and is currently studying with Johannes Meissl at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts. Second place went to the US-based Balourdet Quartet, and third place to the Elmire Quartet, from France.
2 At the Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition in Lviv, Ukraine, the first prize went to 24-year-old Latvian violinist ’ A graduate of Vienna University and the Graz University of Music, where he studied with Boris Kuschnir, he receives €20,000. Second and third prizes went to 20-year-old Ukrainians Kostiantyn Lukyniuk and Dmytro Udovychenko respectively. See next issue for full report.
3 The €3,500 first prize in the senior category of the International Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Weimar, Germany went to 18-year-old American , a student of Itzhak Perlman through the Perlman Music Program. Germany’s Tassilo Probst, 17, came second, while Japanese 20-year-old Taichi Miyamoto came third.
4 The Japanese ensemble ’ was one of four first-prize winners at the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. The ensemble, comprising violinists Yuna Shinohara and Chihiro Kitada, violist Meguna Naka and cellist Tatsuki Sasanuma, will now join the Young Concert Artists roster.