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COMPETITIONS
Simon David Eberle
PHOTO URSULA KLEPPER. O’NEILL
1 German cellist Simon David Eberle, 28, has won the grand prize at the Gustav Mahler International Cello Competition in Prague, Czech Republic. Eberle, who studies under Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts Berlin, takes home a CZK30,000 (£1,000) cash prize. First prizes were awarded in 11 age categories, with ages 9 and below in category 1 to ages 26 to 30 in category 11, the latter of which Eberle also won.
Hannari Piano Trio
PHOTO CREDIA. TRIO HANNARI
2 The Hannari Piano Trio has won the inaugural Ina and Gustav Lenzewski Foundation Prize for Chamber Music, taking home its €1,000 award and beating five other chamber ensembles. The prize was given by the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst to three of its students: Finnish violinist Hannah Ponkala-Nitsch, German cellist Larissa Nagel and Japanese pianist Rie Kibayashi. The ensemble is tutored by violinist Tim Vogler and pianist Angelika Merkle.
3 Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship. Worth €100,000, the award is designed to offer musicians ‘the chance to realise ambitious and innovative musical media projects on the music of Bach or on music from the Baroque period’. Tetzlaff will use the fellowship to create a film project relating the Bach Cello Suites to nature and climate change.
Richard O’Neill
PHOTO COURTESY RIE KIBAYASHI
4 Korean–American violist Richard O’Neill has received the Grammy Award in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category for his performance of Christopher Theofanidis’s Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra. A member of the Takács Quartet, O’Neill is a graduate of the Juilliard School and currently teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music, CO, US.
APPOINTMENTS
•French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been announced as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra’s new artistic director, beginning in September 2021.
•Canadian cellist Gary Hoffman is to join the Curtis Institute of Music’s faculty as the Nina and Billy Albert Chair in Cello Studies at the start of the 2021-22 academic year.
•Italian–Venezuelan violinist Giovanni Guzzo has been appointed concertmaster of Austrian chamber orchestra Camerata Salzburg with immediate effect.
FORTHCOMING COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN, US, for violinists aged 16–29. First prize $75,000 Deadline 28 February 2022; competition 9–25 September 2022 Web http://violin.org
International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznań, Poland, for violinists aged 30 or under. First prize €50,000 Deadline 15 November; competition 7–21 October 2022
Web
http://konkurs.wieniawski.pl
Busan MARU International Music Festival Concerto Competition in Busan, South Korea, for instrumentalists in two age categories: under 19 and 20–35. First prize KRW2,000,000 (£1,300) Deadline 25 June; competition September Web http://bmimf.co.kr