Handel Prize of the City of Halle

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The Handel Prize of the City of Halle was a sponsorship prize awarded by the City of Halle (Saale) from 1993 to 2006 . To accurately determine the winners an international was in 1996 music competition in various categories as part of the Handel Festival , the since 2014 award announced, last looks for the 8th time in 2005. In the tradition of Handel Sponsorship International Handel Research Award of the Georg -Friedrich-Handel-Society .

history

The Handel Prize of the City of Halle was aimed at musicians, singers and musicologists. It was endowed with prize money between 5,000 and 6,000 euros and was sponsored by the city of Halle, the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Handel Festival eV and the Handel New Generation Association as well as companies in the region.

The concertante rediscovery of Handel's opera Lotario finally resulted in the award of the musicologist Hans-Georg Hofmann in 1996 .

In 1999, the sponsorship awards endowed with 10,000 D-Marks were selected for young conductors at a conducting seminar led by the English conductor Paul Goodwin as part of the Handel Festival. The award winners, including Marcus Bosch , second conductor of the Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden , were allowed to conduct Handel's ode The Alexander Festival.

From 2000 to 2005 (not awarded in 2003 due to flooding ), the award was given to the winners of an international Handel competition for instrumental soloists as part of the Handel Festival. The chairman of the jury was the oboist Burkhard Glaetzner . The trumpet competition announced in 2002 with its two categories ( historical and modern instrument) was considered unique in the world at the time. The competitions were internationally oriented, so in 2005 a total of 40 musicians from 20 countries applied for the sponsorship award.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Handel Festival, the city of Halle (Saale) announced a Handel Composition Prize endowed with 20,000 D-Marks . At the same time, an advancement award for composers endowed with 4,000 Deutschmarks was awarded. This time, the jury chairman was the composer Thomas Buchholz , a member of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Handel Festival.

criticism

According to Achim Heidenreich of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the 1997 award of the prize to the Halle Handel Festival Orchestra was "overdue and an important, certainly motivating sign".

In the course of the 1999 award ceremony, the conductor Cornelia von Kerssenbrock was described by Doris Lott in the Badische Neuesten Nachrichten as “the new star in the baroque conductor sky”. The journalist foresaw her “a dream career”.

In 2001 Johannes Killyen criticized the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (MZ) for the fact that the 2001 composition competition was merely a “contemporary fig leaf” as part of the traditional Handel Festival. The advancement award for composition had already been advertised for chamber music ensembles in 1999 and had no relation to the baroque composer Georg Friedrich Handel. The winners pieces Visions for flute, bassoon, viola, vibraphone and piano (1998) by Narine Khachatryan and call? no, want! for Ensemble (1999) by Thomas Christoph Heyde were only performed in 2001 by the Freiburg Ensemble SurPlus in the new theater in Halle.

For Meike Knoche from the MZ, the 2005 competition was a "flagship" of the Handel Festival for an "innovative funding concept that can be made possible primarily by companies based in Halle and the state".

Award winners

  • 1993: Young Musicians' Prize: Hans-Martin Fuhrmann
  • 1994: Sponsorship awards for young musicians: Dietlind von Poblozki, Adelheid Böhme
  • 1995: Baroque singing awards: Antje Gebhardt, Ulrike Helzel
  • 1996: Awards for young scientists: Hans-Georg Hofmann (1st prize), Michael Werner (2nd prize), Artie Heinrich (3rd prize); Composition competition: no award
  • 1997: Prize for making music on historical instruments: Handel Festival Orchestra Halle ; Singing competition, baroque singing: Antje Perscholka, Katrin Strocka, Eva Slametschka, Cornelia Bär, Axel Scheidig, Norbert Meyn, Ewa Krzak
  • 1998: Young Musicians' Prize: Katrin Wittrisch
  • 1999: Awards for young conductors: Cornelia von Kerssenbrock , Marcus Bosch , Hans Jochen Braunstein (shared award); Composition competition, main prize: Alexandra Filonenko , Klaus H. Stahmer (shared prize); Sponsorship award: Narine Khachatryan , Thomas Christoph Heyde (shared award)
  • 2000: oboe competition, baroque oboe: Antoine Torunczyk (1st prize), Luise Baumgartl (2nd prize), Maike Buhrow (3rd prize); modern oboe: Martin Frutiger (1st prize), Sonja Kierspel, Kai Rapsch (2nd prize), not awarded (3rd prize)
  • 2001: Flute competition, Flauto traverso: not awarded (1st prize), Ulrike Werner, Torun Torbo (2nd prize), Marion Hofmockel (3rd prize); modern flute: Dòra Ombòdi (1st prize); not awarded (2nd prize), Botond Rab, Martin Glück (3rd prize)
  • 2002: Trumpet competition, baroque trumpet: Paolo Bacchini (1st prize), Jaroslav Rouček (2nd prize), Pierre Torwald (3rd prize); modern trumpet: Steffen Naumann (1st prize), Masaro Gushi (2nd prize), Tobias Willner (3rd prize)
  • 2003: not awarded
  • 2004: Baroque Singing Award: Ulrike Fulde ; Top competition, baroque oboe: not awarded (1st prize), Susanne Grützmacher (2nd prize), not awarded (3rd prize); modern oboe: Wan-Chen Hsieh (1st prize), Blanca Alejandra Gleisner (2nd prize), Minkyu Yoon (3rd prize)
  • 2005: Flute competition, Flauto traverso: not awarded (1st prize), Monika Scholand (2nd prize), Marion Hofmockel (special prize, donated by Handel's Neue Generation eV); modern flute: Dòra Ombòdi (1st prize), Andreas Kißling (2nd prize), Shih-Chun Chen (special prize, donated by the Baden-Württembergische Bank )
  • 2006: Awards for young scientists: Mait Martin, Anne Constanze Petersmann
  • (2007: EnviaM- Förderpreis: Landesjugendchor Sachsen-Anhalt )

literature

  • Handel Prize of Honor and Handel Prize of the City of Halle . In: Andreas Johannes Wiesand (ed.): Handbook of cultural awards . Part 4: 1995-2000. Awards, honors, grants and individual project funding for artists, publicists and cultural mediators in Germany and Europe . ARCult, Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-930395-24-8 , p. 1003.
  • Christoph Rink: Handel Prize - Handel Research Prize . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2014, pp. 11–13 ( online PDF ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christoph Rink: Handel Promotion Prize - Handel Research Prize . In: Announcements of the Friends and Sponsors of the Handel House in Halle eV 1/2014, pp. 11–13, here: p. 12.
  2. ^ Andreas Hillger: Handel Festival in Halle. Searching for clues on the doorstep . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 3, 2004.
  3. ↑ Conductor Marcus Bosch receives the Handel Prize . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 18, 1999, No. 138, p. 79.
  4. ↑ Competition for the glory of the master . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 11, 2002.
  5. ↑ a b Meike Knoche: Hungarian flautist clearly stands out: concert of the prize winners of the Handel competition . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 9, 2005.
  6. ↑ Achim Heidenreich: winner of the flower pot . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 14, 1997, No. 160, p. 28.
  7. ^ Doris Lott , in: Badische Latest Nachrichten , June 23, 1999; quoted from: Elke Mascha Blankenburg : Female conductors in the 20th century. Portraits from Marin Alsop to Simone Young . European Publishing House, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-434-50536-5 , p. 135.
  8. ↑ Johannes Killyen: Contemporary fig leaf on the edge of the festival. Prize winners concert of the composition competition in the new theater . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , June 12, 2001.
  9. ^ Gerhard Menzel: Handel Festival in Halle 1996 (June 6-11). Festival review . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Gerhard Menzel: Handel Festival in Halle 1997 (June 5–10). Festival review . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ Handel Festival in Halle 1998 (June 5–10). Festival report . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  12. ↑ a b 50th Handel Festival in Halle 2001 (June 8–17). Festival report . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  13. ↑ Handel Festival in Halle 2000 (June 2-11). Festival report . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  14. ↑ Gerhard Menzel, Annette van Dyck-Hemming : Handel Festival in Halle 2003 (June 6-17). The King shall rejoice . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  15. ^ Gerhard Menzel: Handel Festival in Halle 2003 (June 3-13). Handel and the German tradition . Online Musik Magazin, accessed November 8, 2019.
  16. ↑ Press release of the city of Halle (Saale) from June 9, 2004 . halle.de, accessed: November 8, 2019.
  17. ↑ Bulletin of the Handel Festival of June 8, 2005 , p. 2f.