International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition, Hanover

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The Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover (also: International Violin Competition Hannover or Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover ) in Hannover is one of the world's bestdotierten Awards for a total of 12 each young violinists and violinists. The competition , which is made up of an international jury and is held every three years, is dedicated to the violinist Joseph Joachim , who also worked in Hanover . The aim of the competition, organized by the Lower Saxony Foundation , is to support artists on their way to an international career, to promote classical music traditions , education and practice, and to promote the Lower Saxony state capital as a metropolis of music. Partners in the competition are the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH), the Hanover State Opera , the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) with its NDR Radiophilharmonie, the NDR Kultur radio , the Fritz Behrens Foundation , the concert directorate Hans Ulrich Schmid and multiple companies. The competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva .

history

The International Violin Competition Hanover was held for the first time in the same year on the initiative of the musician Krzysztof Węgrzyn and brought into being in 1991 by the Lower Saxony Foundation . The head of the Foundation's program department organized the competition, while the concertmaster of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra , Węgrzyn, who was also a professor at the HMTMH, took on the artistic direction.

procedure

The respective supporting program for the competition lasts around two weeks. Competitors and their companions can be accepted and looked after by various host families in and around Hanover free of charge . Through an extensive accompanying program under the titles in the Countryside as a regional concert, guest in the classroom for performances in schools, the experts - Forum Auditorium and the master class Musical Collegium are possible far "taken into the country the benefits of competition participants and widely access to classical music ".

"In five rounds, 35 selected musicians from the international jury of at least ten people", chaired by Krzysztof Wegrzyn, will prove their virtuosity and expressiveness , in order to then possibly be entitled to the title "Prize Winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Hanover".

Prices

A total of 140,000 euros will be awarded to twelve outstanding participants in the form of prize money. The prizes of the competition waving scholarships and debut - concerts . Prize money of 50,000, 30,000 and 20,000 euros will be awarded for the first three places in the violin competition, as well as numerous other considerable cash prizes up to the semi-finalists. The first prize winner is given the opportunity to produce a CD with the Naxos company , as well as “debut recitals and concerts with orchestras and ensembles of international standing”.

Since 2009, the winners have received a golden statuette, which represents a figure playing the violin, stylized by the artist Sebastian Peetz in a single line.

The Fritz Behrens Foundation temporarily awards the winners of the competition a " violin that was made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in Parma around 1765 ".

In 2012, first prize was awarded twice for the first time and second place was not awarded. The 3rd prize winner also received "the Critics' Prize endowed with 5,000 euros and the Audience Prize ".

Award winners

Previous winners of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover were:

year 1st prize winner 2nd award winner 3rd award winner
1991 Antje Weithaas ; Catherine Cho Bartlomiej Niziol
1994 Robert Chen ; Anton Barachovsky Latica Honda-Rosenberg
1997 Michiko Kamiya ; Francesco Manara Am Huang
2000 Frank Huang ; Andrey Bielow Arabella Steinbacher
2003 Nemanja Radulovic ; Saeka Matsuyama Feng Ning
2006 Suyoen Kim ; Hyun-Su Shin Kana Sugimura
2009 Fumiaki Miura Clara-Jumi Kang Yura Lee
2012 Dami Kim and Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier "Not forgiven" Tobias Feldmann
2015 Sergei Dogadin Shion Minami Richard Lin
2018 Timothy Chooi Dmytro Udovychenko Cosima Soulez Larivière

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f N.N .: Portrait (see web links)
  3. ↑ a b Compare the subpage Partner ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on jjv-hannover.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jjv-hannover.de
  4. ↑ Eva Holtz, Annette Langhorst (Red.): The violin competition was my long-cherished dream. In: noblis , September 2015 edition, p. 64f.
  5. ^ Theda Minthe: Fritz Behrens Foundation. In: donate. promote. shape. Guide to foundations in Hanover , ed. by the City of Hanover, Mayor's Office - Fundamental Matters, in cooperation with the Hanover Foundation Initiative, updated new edition, Hanover: City of Hanover, November 2007, p. 56
  6. ↑ a b c d e Stefan Arndt: International Violin Competition ... (see literature)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Lower Saxony Foundation - International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover
  8. ↑ Winner JJV 2018. In: Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hannover 2018. Lower Saxony Foundation, October 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Winner JJV 2018. In: Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hannover 2018. Lower Saxony Foundation, October 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ winner 2018 JJV Hanover. In: Joseph Joachim Violin Competition. Lower Saxony Foundation, October 26, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018 .