COMPETITIONS

1 Galy-González Duo

DUO PHOTO JEAN-BAPTISTE MILLOT. DUEÑAS PHOTO TAM LAN TRUONG. WIDMANN PHOTO LENNARD RUEHLE

 2 María Dueñas

3 Carolin Widmann

1 The Galy-González Duo, consisting of French violinist Manon Galy, 25, and Cuban pianist Jorge González, 27, have won €13,000 at the 16th Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, including the €10,000 first prize. Both players are studying for an artist diploma at the Paris Conservatoire. Second prize was given to the French Roche-Meder Duo and third prize was awarded to the AO Duo, from Japan. The award ceremony will take place at the Lyon Opera on 10 October.

2 María Dueñas, 18, has won the annual €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival award. The Spanish violinist studies with Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna University of Music and Arts and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. The prize aims to recognise and incentivise promising young musicians. Dueñas will receive the prize on 2 July at a concert at Schloss Johannisberg near Frankfurt.

3 German violinist Carolin Widmann has received the 2020 Duisburg City Music Prize, worth €10,000. The annual award celebrates outstanding achievements in the field of music and commitment to arts and culture in the German city. Widmann was Duisburg’s artist-in-residence from 2012 until 2013 and has appeared on many occasions with the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Due to its ceremony being cancelled in November 2020, the award was given to Widmann in absentia.

4 The violin-, cello- and piano-playing Kanneh-Mason siblings, consisting of Sheku, Jeneba, Mariatu, Braimah, Konya, Aminata and Isata, have won the Best Classical Artist category at the 2021 Global Awards in recognition for their recent Carnival of the Animals album. The awards, which are in their fourth year, are presented by Global Radio and its subsidiary stations, including Classic FM. The winners were announced on air because of Covid-19 restrictions.

APPOINTMENTS

• British violinist Daniel Pioro has been named an associate artist at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland 

• The Colburn School has appointed US violist Geraldine Walther to be the head of its chamber programme

• Peruvian–French cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi will be director of Kennesaw State University’s Dr Bobbie Bailey School of Music as of 1 July

• Mexican violist Enrique Márquez has been named director of music at the Interlochen Center for the Arts

FORTHCOMING COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

Goodmesh International Music Competition online, for instrumentalists over the age of 18 and studying at a conservatoire. First prize €2,000 Deadline 31 July; competition 31 October Web goodmesh.nl

Singapore International Violin Competition in Singapore, for violinists born after 31 December 1990. First prize $50,000 Deadline 15 September; competition 16–28 January 2022

 Web singaporeviolincompetition.com

Franz Schubert and Modern Music Chamber Music Competition in Graz, Austria, for piano trio, with all members born after 15 February 1985. First prize €13,000 Deadline 12 October; competition 5–14 February 2022 Web schubert.kug.ac.at

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