COMPETITIONS

2 Leonkoro Quartet

3 Terra Quartet

4 Yo-Yo Ma

LEONKORO PHOTO BEN EALOVEGA. TERRA PHOTO JENNA POPPE. MA PHOTO JASON BELL

1 South Korean violinist Inmo Yang, 26, has won first prize at the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in Helsinki, Finland. The prize comes with €30,000 and the loan of a Guadagnini violin. Yang currently studies with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. US violinist Nathan Meltzer, 21, won the €20,000 second prize, while Ukraine’s Dmytro Udovychenko, 22, was awarded third prize and €15,000.

2 The Leonkoro Quartet has won first prize and €20,000 at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in Bordeaux, France. The foursome also received the audience prize and young listener’s prize. The group comprises violinists Jonathan Schwarz, 26, and Amelie Wallner, 23, violist Mayu Konoe, 24, and cellist Lukas Schwarz, 24. The quartet is tutored by the Artemis Quartet at the Berlin University of the Arts.

3 The American Terra Quartet has won the Grand Prize Medal, worth $10,000, at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, IN, US. The group also won the senior string division’s gold medal and $3,500. The quartet comprises violinists Harriet Langley, 29, and Amelia Dietrich, 28, violist Ramón Carrero Martínez, 29, and cellist Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir, 27.

4 On 18 October at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize, worth $1,000,000, will be awarded to cellist Yo-Yo Ma. He will become the first instrumentalist to receive the prize, which celebrates outstanding achievement in classical music. Susanne Rydén, president of the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, said that Ma’s ‘commitment to music helps us to imagine and build a strong society’.

FORTHCOMING COMPETITIONS & AWARDS

Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition in Boca Raton, FL, US, for violinists aged 16–32. First prize $30,000

Deadline 29 September; competition 15–29 January 2023 bit.ly/3KUMTLa

International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, Austria, for string quartets aged 36 or under. First prize €20,000

Deadline 16 September; competition 3–9 February 2023 bit.ly/39j8Pm1

Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne, Australia, for string quartets and piano trios aged 36 or under. First prize AUD30,000 (£17,000) for string quartets, AUD22,500 (£12,500) for piano trios

Deadline 30 September; competition 2–9 July 2023 bit.ly/3l4UwUH

APPOINTMENTS

• The Juilliard Quartet has named American viola player Molly Carr as its new violist

• US cellist Seth Parker Woods has joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music

• The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has named South African cellist Abel Selaocoe and German violist Tabea Zimmermann as artistic partners

• Taiwanese violist Ming-Yu Hsu, 22, will begin as the Kansas City Symphony’s new principal viola at the start of the 2022–23 season

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