International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis is a classical violin competition which takes place once every four years in Indianapolis, Indiana.^[1] Since 1984, it has been a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.^[2]

History

The first International Violin Competition of Indianapolis was first held in 1982, directed by Josef Gingold.^[3] It was open to violinists aged eighteen to thirty, and its prize was a gold medal and 10,000 (ten thousand) United States dollars.^[4]

The competition was originally organized as an isolated event, but Gingold decided to repeat it because of its success.^[5] For the second competition in 1986, Dorothy DeLay, Ruggiero Ricci, Henryk Szeryng, and Ilona Feher all sat on the jury.^[5]

For the 2014 series, the competition commissioned composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich to write Fantasy for Solo Violin, which sixteen semi-finalists played in the second round of the competition.^[6] On July 8, 2014, the competition announced that Zwilich would also be on the jury, taking the place of violinist Pamela Frank, who resigned because of a family illness.^[7] The other members of the 2014 jury were Jaime Laredo, Miriam Fried, Dong-Suk Kang, Boris Kuschnir, Cho-Liang Lin, Philip Setzer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Kyoko Takezawa.^[8]

The reward for winning first prize in the 2014 Indianapolis Violin Competition is a recital in Carnegie Hall, the opportunity to use Gingold's former Stradivarius violin for four years, and 30,000 (thirty thousand) United States dollars.^[9]

Competition

The competition is separated into three parts:

• Preliminaries. The first round of the competition is 45 minutes long per competitor, and is composed of works from Mozart's Violin sonatas, J.S. Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin, and Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin.^[10][11] Each participant must also perform an encore work.^[12]
• Semi-Finals. In the next round, each competitor plays for 75 minutes, including a commissioned work and a Beethoven sonata.^[11]
• Finals. The finals are split into two parts: in the first part, the competitors each play a classical concerto, and in the second part, they each play a romantic concerto. They perform with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.^[11][12]

Past Winners

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth
2014	Jinjoo Cho	Tessa Lark	Ji Young Lim	Dami Kim	Yoo Jin Jang	Ji Yoon Lee
2010	/ Clara-Jumi Kang	Soyoung Yoon	Benjamin Beilman	Haoming Xie	Antal Szalai	Andrey Baranov
2006	Augustin Hadelich	Simone Lamsma	Celeste Golden	Yura Lee	Ye-Eun Choi	Bella Hristova
2002	Barnabás Kelemen	Sergey Khachatryan	Soovin Kim	Frank Huang	Susie Park	Alina Pogostkina
1998	Judith Ingolfsson	Liviu Prunaru	Ju-Young Baek	Svetlin Roussev	Andrew Haveron	Bin Huang
1994	Juliette Kang	Stefan Milenkovich	David Chan	Jaakko Kuusisto	Michiko Kamiya	Robin Sharp
1990	Pavel Berman	Marco Rizzi	Ivan Chan	Virginie Robilliard	David Kim	Martin Beaver
1986	Kyoko Takezawa	Leonidas Kavakos	Andrés Cárdenes	Chin Kim	Sungsic Yang	Annick Roussin
1982	Mihaela Martin	Ida Kavafian	Yuval Yaron	Olivier Charlier	Nai-Yuan Hu	Yuriko Naganuma

From the competition website.^[13]

References

External links

• Official Competition Website