ARD International Music Competition
The ARD International Music Competition (German: Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD) is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is held once a year in Munich.
History
Since its inception in 1952, the ARD International Music Competition has become one of the most prestigious classical music competitions. It was started by the broadcasting corporations of what was once known as the Federal Republic of Germany. It is run under the backing of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and takes place usually in September. Winning a prize at this ARD International Music Competition has been an enormous aid for internationally famous artists such as Jessye Norman, Francisco Araiza, Natalia Gutman, Christoph Eschenbach, Nobuko Imai, Mitsuko Uchida, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuri Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Heinz Holliger, Isabelle Moretti, Peter Sadlo, and Maurice André, to name just a few.
The ARD International Music Competition has its roots in an earlier competition. Between 1947 and 1950 the Frankfurter Rundfunk assisted this "Young Soloists Competition". The earliest competition discovered two female vocalists who would soon take their place among the international talented: Christa Ludwig and Erika Köth. Instrumentalists included the flautist Karl-Heinz Zöller and the pianist Robert Alexander Bohnke. This newly founded ARD continued the concept of bringing together talented young musicians from the entire globe.
The first ARD International Music Competition took place in 1952. What makes this competition so unique is that the categories alter from year to year to include solo instruments, as well as voice and chamber ensembles. The importance of including modern music has been very prominent; contemporary composers have regularly been commissioned to write new pieces for this Competition ever since the year 2001. The ARD International Music Competition not only stimulates competition among the many musicians but also serves the musical citizens as a centre where musicians can meet.
Anywhere from 350 to 450 young musicians apply each year to compete. Some 200 candidates coming from 35 to 40 countries make it past the preliminary round. A large percentage of competitors come from countries other than Germany (up to 86%) and this provides the highest levels of competition.
From 2001 to 2005, Christoph Poppen, then the conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, has been Artistic Director of the ARD International Music Competition. Ingeborg Krause took over the task of organising the competition that same year, after serving 35 years as the head of another famous German competition called the "Jugend musiziert".
In 2007, the ARD International Music Competition was in September for the categories of oboe, trombone, percussion and piano trio. The of original compositions by Johannes Maria Staud, Søren Nils Eichberg, Jörg Widmann and Maricio Kagel will be required to be played.
ARD International Music Competition laureates
1998
Voice (male)
- 1st Prize: Alfred Kim, Korea[1]
1999
Piano
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Severin von Eckardstein, Germany; Oliver Kern, Germany
Violin
- 2nd Prize: Bin Huang, V.R. China
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Andrei Bielov, Ukraine; Francesco Manara, Italy
Horn
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Alessio Allegrini, Italy; László Seemann, Hungary
- 3rd Prize: Sibylle Mahni, Switzerland
Organ
- 2nd Prize: Martin Kaleschke, Germany
2000
Voice (female)
- 1st Prize: Zoryana Kushpler, Ukraine
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Stefanie Krahnenfeld, Germany; Christa Mayer, Germany
Voice (male)
- 1st Prize: Konrad Jarnot, Great Britain
- 2nd Prize: Nathaniel Webster, USA
- 3rd Prize: Friedemann Röhlig, Germany
Viola
- 2nd Prize: Danuta Waskiewicz, Germany
Flute
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Rozàlia Szabó, Hungary; Henrik Wiese, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Kersten McCall, Germany
Piano Duo
- 1st Prize: Mati Mikalai / Kai Ratassepp, Estonia
- 2nd Prize: Duo d'Accord, Taiwan/Germany
String Quartet
- 2nd Prize: Avalon String Quartett, France/Canada/USA
- 3rd Prize: Quartetto Prometeo, Italy
2001
Violin
- 2nd Prize: Annette von Hehn, Germany
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Min Jung Kang, Korea; Yamei Yu, Germany
Cello
- 1st Prize: Danjulo Ishizaka, Germany
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Julie Albers, USA; Monika Leskovar, Croatia
- 3rd Prize: Thomas Carroll, Great Britain
Saxophone
- 2nd Prize: Alexandre Doisy, France
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Lutz Koppetsch, Germany; Julien Petit, France
Percussion
- 1st Prize: Marta Klimasara, Poland
- 2nd Prize: Eirik Raude, Norway
- 3rd Prize: Christophe Roldan, France
Wind Quintet
- 1st Prize: Miró Ensemble, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Orsolino Quintett, Germany/Austria
- 3rd Prize: St. Petersburg Woodwind Quintet, Russia
2002
Bassoon
- 2nd Prize: Matthias Rácz, Germany
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Jaakko Luoma, Finland; Lyndon Watts, Australia
Oboe
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Nora Cismondi, France; Alexandre Gattet, France; Keiko Inoue, Japan
Piano
- 1st Prize: Denys Proshayev, Ukraine
- 2nd Prize: Ferenc Vizi, Romania
- 3rd Prize: Chiao-Ying Chang, Taiwan
Piano Trio
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Trio con Brio, Denmark/Korea; Trio Ondine, Sweden/Denmark/Norway
2003
Voice (female)
- 1st Prize: Marina Prudenskaja, Russia
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Andrea Lauren Brown, USA; Measha Brueggergosman, Canada
- 3rd Prize: Julia Sukmanova, Russia
Voice (male)
- 1st Prize: Gérard Kim, Korea
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Tyler Duncan, Canada; Günter Papendell, Germany
Double Bass
- 1st Prize: Nabil Shehata, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Roman Patkoló, Slovakia
- 3rd Prize: Ödön Rácz, Hungary
Clarinet
- 2nd Prize: Olivier Patey, France
- 3rd Prize: Florent Pujuila, France
Trumpet
- 1st Prize: David Guerrier, France
- 2nd Prize: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Switzerland
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Gabor Richter, Hungary; Guillaume Couloumy, France
2004
Viola
- 1st Prize: Antoine Tamestit, France
- 2nd Prize: Ryszard Groblewski, Poland
- 3rd Prize: Tomoko Akasaka, Japan
Flute
- 1st Prize: Magali Mosnier, France
- 2nd Prize: Pirmin Grehl, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Andrea Oliva, Italy
String Quartet
- 1st Prize: Quatuor Ébène, France
- 2nd Prize: Faust Quartett, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Quatuor Benaïm, Israel/France
Harp
- 1st Prize: Anton Sie, Netherlands
- 2nd Prize: Nabila Chajai, France
- 3rd Prize: Mirjam Schroder, Germany
2005
Violin
- 1st Prize: Keisuke Okasaki, Japan
- 2nd Prize: Akiko Yamada, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Katja Lämmermann, Germany
Cello
- 1st Prize: Jing Zhao, China
- 2nd Prize: Alexander Bouzlov, Russia
- 3rd Prize: Alexander Chaushian, Armenia/Great Britain
Horn
- 1st Prize: Szabolcs Zempléní, Hungary
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Louis-Philippe Marsolais, Canada; Renate Hupka, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Christoph Eß, Germany
Piano Duo
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Victor y Luis del Valle, Spain; Piano Duo Poskute – Daukantas, Lithuania
- 3rd Prize: Silivanova – Puryzhinskiy, Russia
2006
Voice/Opera
- 1st Prize: Jun Mo Yang, Korea
- 2nd Prize: Joshua Hopkins, Canada
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Ilse Eerens, Belgium; Anna Kasyan, Armenia
Voice/Lied
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Roxana Constantinescu, Rumania; Carolina Ullrich, Chile/Germany
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Colin Balzer, Canada; Peter Schöne, Germany
Piano
- 1st Prize: Benjamin Kim, USA
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Hisako Kawamura, Japan; Marianna Shirinyan, Armenia
Wind Quintet
- 1st Prize: Quintette Aquilon, France
- 2nd Prize: Quintett Chantily, Germany/Hungary/Russia/Finland
- 3rd Prize: Weimarer Bläserquintett, Germany
2007
Oboe
- 1st Prize: Ramón Ortega Quero, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Ivan Podyomov, Russia
- 3rd Prize: Maria Sournatcheva, Russia
Trombone
- 1st Prize: Fabrice Millischer, France
- 2nd Prize: Frederic Belli, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Juan Carlos Matamoros, Spain
Percussion
- 1st Prize: Johannes Fischer, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Vassilena Serafimova, Bulgaria
Piano Trio
- 1st Prize: Tecchler Trio, Switzerland/Germany
- 2nd Prize: Morgenstern Trio, Germany/France
- 3rd Prize: Trio Cérès, France
2008
Viola
- 2nd Prize: Wen Xiao Zheng, China
- 3rd Prize: Teng Li, China
Clarinet
- 1st Prize: Sebastian Manz, Germany
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Shelly Ezra, Israel; Taira Kaneko, Japan
Bassoon
- 1st Prize: Marc Trénel, France
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Christian Kunert, Germany; Philipp Tutzer, Italy
- 3rd Prize: Václav Vonášek, Czech Republic
String Quartet
- 1st Prize: Apollon Musagete Quartett, Poland
- 2nd Prize: Afiara String Quartet, Canada
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Gémeaux Quartet, Germany/Switzerland; Verus String Quartet, Japan
2009
Violin
- 1st Prize: Hyeyoon Park, Korea
- 2nd Prize: Kei Shirai, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Lily Francis, USA
Double Bass
- 1st Prize: Gunars Upatnieks, Latvia
- 2nd Prize: Stanislau Anishchanka, Belarus
- 3rd Prizes (shared): Olivier Thiery, France; Ivan Zavgorodniy, Ukraine
Voice
- 1st Prize: Anita Watson, Australia
- 2nd Prize: Sunyoung Seo, Korea; Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Hye Jung Lee, Korea; Falko Hönisch, Germany
2010
Flute
- 1st Prize: Loïc Schneider, France
- 2nd Prize: Daniela Koch, Austria
- 3rd Prize: Sooyun Kim, South Korea/USA
- BR Klassik Prize: Ivannay Ternay, Ukraine
Cello
- 1st Prize: Julian Steckel, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Gen Yokosawa, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Tristan Cornut, France
Horn
- 1st Prize: Přemsyl Vojta, Czech Republic
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Dániel Ember, Hungary; Paolo Mendes, Germany
Piano Duo
- 2nd Prize: Hyun Joo & Hee Jin June – Remnant Piano Duo, South Korea
- 3rd Prize: Susan & Sarah Wang – DoubleWang Duo, USA
- Special Prize: Pianoduo Groebner & Trisko, Austria
2011
Oboe
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Tondre, France, with Public Prize; Ivan Podyomov, Russia
- 3rd Prize: Cristina Gómez Godoy, Spain; Marc Lachat, France
Organ
- 1st Prize: Schöch, Austria
- 2nd Prize: Anna-Victoria Baltrusch, German
- 3rd Prize: Lukas Stollhof, Dutch
Trumpet
- 1st Prize: Manuel Blanco Gómez-Limón, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Alexandre Baty, France
- 3rd Prize: Ferenc Mausz, Hungary, with Public Prize
Piano
- 1st Prize: Alexej Gorlatch, Ukraine, with Public Prize
- 2nd Prize: Tori Huang (Claire Huangci), USA
- 3rd Prize: Da Sol Kim, South Korea
2012
Voice (male)
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Dashon Burton, USA; Hansung Yoo, South Korea, with Public Prize
- 3rd Prize: Kyubong Lee, South Korea
Voice (female)
- 1st Prize: Olena Tokar, Ukraine
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Sumi Hwang, South Korea; Anna Sohn, South Korea
- 3rd Prize: Sophia Christine Brommer, Germany, with Public Prize
Clarinet
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Sergey Eletskiy, Russia; Stojan Krkuleski, Serbia, with Public Prize; Annelien Van Wauwe, Belgium
String Quartet
- 1st Prize: Armida Quartett, Germany, with Public Prize
- 2nd Prize: Novus String Quartet, South Korea
- 3rd Prize: Calidore String Quartet, USA/Canada
2013
Violin
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Bomsori Kim, South Korea; Christel Lee, USA, with Public Prize
- Special Prize of the Munich Chamber Orchestra: Diana Tishchenko, Ukraine
Viola
- 1st Prize: Yura Lee, South Korea
- 2nd Prize: Kyoungmin Park, South Korea, with Public Prize
- 3rd Prize: Katarzyna Budnik-Gałązka, Poland
- Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work: Adrien Boisseau, France
- Special Prize of the Henning Tögel Talent Foundation for Outstanding Talents: Lydia Rinecker, Germany
Bassoon
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Sophie Dartigalongue, France, with Public Prize; Rie Koyama, Japan, with Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work
- 3rd Prize: María José Rielo Blanco, Spain, with BR-Klassik Online-Preis
Piano Trio
- 2nd Prizes (shared): Van Baerle Trio, Netherlands, with Public Prize; Trio Karénine, France, with Prize for the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work
References
- ↑ "Alfred Kim". http://www.oper-frankfurt.de. Oper Frankfurt. Retrieved 26 February 2014. External link in
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External links
- ARD Competition
- Directory of International Piano Competitions
- Critic's Diary of the 2008 ARD Competition, ionarts.org
- Winners of the 2008 ARD Viola Competition WETA 90.9
- Winners of the 2008 ARD String Quartet Competition WETA 90.9
- Piano Competitions & Music Competitions at Bakitone International