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COMPETITIONS
Leonkoro Quartet
Amelio Trio
Trio Bohémo
LEONKORO PHOTO BEN EALOVEGA. AMELIO PHOTO COURTESY HFMDK SCHUMANN KAMMERMUSIKPREIS. TRIO BOHÉMO PHOTO HUGO VITAMVAS
The Berlin-based Leonkoro Quartet has won first prize and £10,000 at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London. The quartet also received the Bram Eldering Prize, Sidney Griller Award, Haydn Prize, Alan Bradley Mozart Prize and Twentieth Century Prize, totalling £5,200.The quartet comprises violinists Jonathan Schwarz, 26, and Amelie Wallner, 23, violist Mayu Konoe, 24, and cellist Lukas Schwarz, 24.
Germany’s Amelio Piano Trio has taken home first prize and €8,000 at the Schumann Chamber Music Competition in Frankfurt, Germany. The trio’s members, all 22 years old, are violinist Johanna Schubert, cellist Merle Geissler and pianist Philipp Kirchner. Second prize and €6,000 were awarded to both the Trio Orelon and Trio Delyris. No third prize was awarded.
Spanish double bassist David Santos Luque, 21, was awarded first prize and €8,500 at the International Johann Matthias Sperger Competition for double bass in Rostock, Germany. Luque also won the special prize for the best interpretation of the competition’s compulsory contemporary piece. Second prize and €4,500 were awarded to José Trigo, 24, from Portugal, who also won the audience prize.
Trio Bohémo and Trio Incendio each won joint second prize and €5,000 at the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition in Weimar, Germany. Trio Bohémo was formed in Budapest and comprises pianist Jan Vojtek, 26, violinist Matouš Pěruška, 30, and cellist Kristina Vocetková, 28. Trio Incendio was created in Prague and consists of pianist Karolína Františová, 27, violinist Filip Zaykov, 24, and cellist Vilém Petras, 27.
FORTHCOMING COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition in Stony Brook, NY, US, for string players aged 16–30. First prize $5,000 Deadline 7 October; competition 1 December Web jsbachcompetition.org
Buchet International Cello Competition in Brussels, Belgium, for cellists aged under 29. First prize €3,000
Deadline 30 June; competition 10–11 October Web bit.ly/3jfTLHq
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 24 June; competition 2 September Web bmimf.co.kr
APPOINTMENTS
Australian violinist Sophie Rowell has been named artistic director of the Melbourne Chamber Orchestra British double bassist
Graham Mitchell has been appointed head of strings at London’s Royal Academy of Music
US violinist Adriane Post will begin her role as the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra’s concertmaster in the autumn of 2022
British cellist Jacob Shaw has been made director of culture at the Stevns Klint Visitor Center in Denmark
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