MozARTe International Piano Competition
The MozARTe International Piano Competition , known as the Prix AmadéO de Piano until 2015 , is an international piano competition for young pianists that was held for the first time in 2005 . Since 2006, the price component of the Alink-Argerich Foundation and organized by the Stichting Euriade . The event initially took place in Vaalsbroek Castle in Vaals in the Netherlands and has been held exclusively in the Aachen department of the Cologne University of Music and Dance from 2007 until the semi-finals and the final round in the ballroom of the Alten Kurhaus .
development
In 2013 the AmadéO e. V. based in Aachen, which made itself independent of the previous organization of the Euriade and from now on carries out the series of events independently. From 2013 to 2015, the Prix amadéO de piano was divided into Prix amadéO professional according to the previous conditions and Prix amadéO amateur for talented amateur pianists without age restrictions in cooperation with the State Music Council of North Rhine-Westphalia . The Prix amadéO amateur was held in one evaluation round, whereby a free program of a maximum of 25 minutes was required. The Prix amadéO amateur was endowed with 800 euros for the winner, 500 euros for the 2nd and 300 euros for the 3rd winner.
In 2015 the AmadéO e. V. renamed MozARTe eV and Andreas Frölich and Ilja Scheps , professors for piano at the Aachen department of the Cologne University of Music and Dance, took over the management. At the same time, the piano competition was announced as the MozARTe International Piano Competition exclusively for piano students and is supported by the piano construction company Kawai , the Rhineland Regional Association , the Lions Club Aachen as well as the WDR Cologne and numerous other sponsors.
In addition, since 2015 the piano competitions have been combined with an intercultural MozARTè festival as well as a combination of the visual arts in the form of exhibitions or installations by Aachen and European artists with classical concerts by young musicians and internationally known soloists.
jury
The international jury, chaired by Andreas Frölich and Ilja Scheps, is made up of different greats from the international piano world every year. So far, she has included Alfredo Oyaguez (Spain), Piotr Paleczny (Poland), Klaus Kaufmann (Germany / Austria), Pavel Gililov (Germany / Russia), Chen Jiang (China), Andrea Bonatta (Italy), Marián Lapšanský (Slovakia) ), Tamás Ungar (USA) or Zhao Yi Dan (China).
conditions
The age limit for the piano competition is 28 years. All pieces must be prepared in full and performed by heart. The repetition of a work is not permitted.
The first round consisted of a 15-20 minute CD recording with a free program. In the second round, an étude by Chopin , Liszt , Rachmaninoff , Debussy or Saint-Saëns was expected within a 15-minute performance . The 50-minute semifinal had to contain a Beethoven sonata and in the final round a given piano concerto by Mozart had to be performed with a chamber orchestra. In 2016, the concert part in the finals was canceled due to cost reasons and instead the finalists had to perform a program of their own choosing. In the following years the program was tightened and since then a 10 to 12 minute free program in the first round and a 30 to 35 minute free program in the semifinals is required. The subsequent final round consists of a piano concerto by Mozart or, alternatively, by another given composer. The concert will be accompanied by the MozARTe Festival Strings under the direction of Ervis Gega.
Prices
- 1st prize: € 3000
- 2nd prize: € 1500
- 3rd prize: € 1000
- In addition, an audience award or various concert arrangements in Germany or other European countries can be awarded.
Award winners
| year | place | 1st Prize | 2nd prize | 3rd prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Aachen | Mizora Ozaki (Japan) plus audience award | Riccardo Gagliardi (Italy) | Gi Ran Jung (South Korea) Vincent Neeb (Germany) |
| 2018 | Aachen | Young Sun Park (South Korea) plus audience award | Rokas Valuntonis (Lithuania) | Mitra Kotte (Austria) |
| 2017 | Aachen | Almog Segal (Israel) plus audience award
Alexandra Shcherbakova (Russia) |
Vasyl Kotys (Ukraine) | Clara Siegle (Germany) |
| 2016 | Aachen | Elizaveta Ivanova (Russia) Leonel Morales Herrero (Spain) |
Ayaka Shigeno (Japan) | Peter Naryshkin (Ukraine) |
| 2015 | Aachen | Natalia Sokolovskaya (Russia); plus audience award | Konstantin Alexeev (Russia) | Marie Kiyone (Japan) |
| 2014 | Aachen | Song Young-Kyung (South Korea) | Jeong Nayoung (South Korea) | Mihyun Ahn (South Korea) Anna Buchberger (Germany); Audience Award Anna Buchberger |
| 2013 | Aachen | - not awarded - | Kirill Korsunenko (Ukraine) and Audience Award | Sona Berseghian (Armenia) Olga Stezhko (Belarus) |
| 2012 | Aachen | Yedam Kim (South Korea) | Saskia Giordini (Italy); plus audience award | Mao Ishida (Japan) |
| 2011 | Aachen | Fabian Müller (Germany) | Elmira Sayfullayeva (Belarus) | Xiang Huang (China) |
| 2010 | Aachen | Johannes Nies (Germany) | Luisa Imorde (Germany) | Daniel Saroussi (Israel); plus audience award |
| 2009 | Aachen | Esther Park (USA) | Claire Huangci (USA) | Dasul Jung (South Korea) |
| 2008 | Aachen | Jayson Gillham (Australia) | Sae-Nal Kim (South Korea) | Ju Eun Lee (South Korea) Jian Wang (China) |
| 2007 | Aachen | Jae-Kyung Yoo (South Korea) | Hye-Yeon Park (South Korea) Yang Yang (South Korea) |
Vasilios Rakitzis (Greece) Keina Sato (Japan) |
| 2006 | Vaals | Benyamin Nuss (Germany) | Artem Kanke (Ukraine) | Sebastian Voltz (Germany) |
| 2005 | Vaals | Yumi Sato (Japan) | Jia Wang (China) | Asa Mori (Japan) Boris Radulovis (Serbia) |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Prix amadéO amateur , News Archive Landesmusikrat NRW ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Thomas Volge: The “Prix Amadèo de Piano” is in the 10th edition , in the Aachener Zeitung on September 2nd, 2014
