Rotary Youth Piano Competition
The Rotary Youth Piano Competition is an annual piano competition for young pianists (up to 18 years of age) at the highest level , which has existed since 2006 .
The Rotary Club 2006 food Hellweg founded the piano libre eV , which acts as a carrier of the competition.
history
The competition was founded in 2006 by the Rotary Club Essen-Hellweg and is now supported by all six Rotary clubs in Essen.
From 2006 to 2012 the competition was national and in 2013 it will be held for the first time with international participation. Special emphasis is placed on the engagement of children and young people with contemporary music. In addition, the competition focuses on a different composer every year; in 2013 it is Robert Schumann .
The concert concludes with the winners' concert, at which the best interpretations are performed together again. In 2006 the concert was held in the Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Saal in the Museum Folkwang and in the years after that in the Philharmonie Essen. The event "Excellent Children" grew out of this and is still held today in a special setting. Since 2011, an additional award winners' concert has been held again, in 2011 in the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum and 2012 in the blower hall in the Duisburg-Nord landscape park , and in 2013 in the RWE pavilion of the Philharmonie Essen.
Special sponsors of the competition include Evonik Industries , piano libre eV (represented by Jürgen Lamprecht) and the C. Bechstein Center Essen. The current competition was held from 3rd to 5th May 2013 in the great hall of Evonik Industries in Essen.
As part of this project, every 3 years a child is selected for musical support, who is given a piano for 3 years and piano training is made possible.
Conditions of participation
Each participant has to play two compulsory pieces: A work by the composer who is the focus, which should last around a third to half of the entire performance time. In addition, a work of modernism is required, preferably by one of the following composers: Hans Erich Apostel , Béla Bartók , Berg, Luciano Berio , Pierre Boulez , Cage, Henry Cowell , George Crumb , Denissov, Dessau, Eggert, Eisler, Hartmann, Paul Hindemith , Charles Ives , György Kurtág , Helmut Lachenmann , György Ligeti , Olivier Messiaen , Wolfgang Rihm , Dieter Schnebel , Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Stockhausen, Tōru Takemitsu , Anton Webern , Widmann, Stefan Wolpe , Yun I-sang . The further repertoire is left to the choice of the participant.
In addition, the participants in age group IV will receive a piece that is unknown to them one week before the start, which must also be performed and a special prize will be awarded for the best interpretation.
jury
- Gregor Willmes, cultural manager at C. Bechstein AG, previously editor-in-chief of the music magazine FonoForum
- Piano professor Manja Lippert from the Musikhochschule Münster
- Piano professor Arne Torger from the Liszt School of Music Weimar , chairman
- Piano professor Till Engel from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
- Piano professor Thomas Günther from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
- Piano professor Susanne Achilles from the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen
Gregor Willmes
Manja Lippert
Arne Torger
Till angel
Thomas Günther, member of the jury and artistic director of the competition
Susanne Achilles
Awarding
The participants are evaluated according to the following criteria:
- technical security
- stylistic differentiation
- musical design
- personal charisma
Award winners
2006
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Isabel Andrzejewski
- 2nd prize: Matthias Hegemann
- 3rd prize: Susanne-Xiaochen Cui
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Tom Stefanescu
- 2nd prize: Liyang Sheng
- 3rd prize: Jilo Hirosawa
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Benjamin Buchberger
- 1st prize: Florian Glemser
- 2nd prize: Kenny Koa
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Schaghajegh Nosrati
- 2nd prize: Benyamin Nuss
- 3rd prize: Daniel Seng
- Audience award: Matthias Hegemann
- Special “Modern” award: Schaghajegh Nosrati
- Special Mozart Prize: Isabel Andrzejewski
2007
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Daniel Gordeev
- 2nd prize: Timo Jürgensen
- 3rd prize: Jakov Zotov
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Hanni Liang
- 2nd prize: Paul Ye
- 2nd prize: Tobias Haunhorst
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Anke Pan
- 1st prize: Julia Sailer
- 2nd prize: Astghik Beglaryan
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Georg Michael Grau
- 1st prize: Leonard Schmid
- 2nd prize: Daniel Seng
- Audience award: Anke Pan
- Special “Modern” award: Daniel Seng
- Schumann Special Prize: Georg Michael Grau
2008
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Tanja Zhou
- 2nd prize: Nina Gurol
- 3rd prize: Kevin Sommer
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Ada Aria Rückschloß
- 3rd prize: Maria Genina
- 3rd prize: Ead Anner Rückschloß
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Inge Du
- 2nd prize: Zoran Markovic
- 3rd prize: Christoph Schilling
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Cristian Ziegler
- 2nd prize: Kathrin Isabelle Klein
- 2nd prize: Christine Neumann
- Audience award: Christine Neumann
- Special “Modern” award: Cristian Ziegler
- Bach special prize: Zoran Markovic
2009
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Yuna Nakagawa
- 2nd prize: Linda Guo
- 3rd prize: Johannes Schneider
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Artem Schakbasian
- 2nd prize: Martin Wiegel
- 3rd prize: Christian Stroh
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Robin Giesbrecht
- 2nd prize: Tobias Haunhorst
- 3rd prize: Wooseok Koh
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Julia Bayer
- 2nd prize: Christine Neumann
- Audience award: Artem Schakbasian
- Special “Modern” award: Christoph Schilling
- Special Beethoven Prize: Robin Giesbrecht
2010
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Michelle Barth
- 2nd prize: Yumeka Nakagawa
- 3rd prize: Nao Sugiura
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Karin Oba
- 2nd prize: Chae Hwan Lim
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Alica Müller
- 2nd prize: Violetta Quapp
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Anna-Sophie Martens
- 2nd prize: Yuhao Guo
- 3rd prize: Kathrin Klein
- Special prize "Contemporary Music": Anna-Sophie Martens
- Special Prize for Haydn Interpretation: Yumeka Nakagawa
2011
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Tom Pauls
- 1st prize: Frédéric Loboda
- 3rd prize: Mai Kawasaki
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Cynthia Maya Bal
- 1st prize: Mohin Jan Fariod
- 3rd prize: Marin Oba
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Alexander Vorontsov
- 3rd prize: Teresa Kratzer
- 3rd prize: Violetta Quapp
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Tobias Haunhorst
- 3rd prize: Laura Pitz
- 3rd prize: Alica Müller
- Prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach: Cynthia Maja Bal
- Prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece: Tobias Haunhorst
2012
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Laetitia Hahn
- 1st prize: Mai Kawasaki
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Clara Siegle
- 1st prize: Jannik Truong
- 3rd prize: Jakob Sommer
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 3rd prize: Samantha Link
- Prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece: Alexander Zhang
2013
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Michelle Woo
- 2nd prize: Carmen Geutjes
- 3rd prize: Ilia Antoniadis
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Elisabeth Hermelink
- 1st prize: Tanja Zhou
- 3rd prize: Emily Hermann
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Jun-Ho Gabriel Yeo
- 3rd prize: Emanuel Ratiu
- 3rd prize: Timo Jürgensen
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 2nd prize: Tae-Min Hyun
- 2nd prize: Rafael Klepsch
- 2nd prize: Teresa Kratzer
- Prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece: Nina Gurol
- Prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Robert Schumann: Jun-Ho Gabriel Yeo
- Prize for the best interpretation of the compulsory piece Flammes sombres by Alexander Scriabin : Rafael Klepsch
2014
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Philippe Gang
- 2nd prize: Anny Chen
- 3rd prize: Martin Jiaan Sun
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Minha Marie Yeo
- 2nd prize: Chiara Martina Rubino
- 3rd prize: Erik Breer
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Emanuel Ratiu
- 2nd prize: Jun-Ho Gabriel Yeo
- 3rd prize: Esther Hermann
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Violetta Quapp
- 2nd prize: Arevik Beglaryan
- Prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece: Violetta Quapp
- Prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Beethoven: Emanuel Ratiu
- Prize for the best interpretation of the compulsory piece Flammes sombres by Alexander Scriabin : Rafael Klepsch
Special prizes from the Carl Bechstein Foundation:
- Liszt: Jun-Ho Gabriel Yeo
- Debussy: Minha Marie Yeo
- Bartók: Philippe Gang
2015
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Roman Fedyurko
- 2nd prize: Kerstin Tang
- 3rd prize: Ilia Antoniadis
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Michelle Woo
- 2nd prize: Monan Jülch (ex aequo)
- 3rd prize: Monan Jülch (ex aequo)
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Jan – Aurel Dawidiuk
- 2nd prize: Wei – Ting Chou
- 3rd prize: Charlotte SF Steppes
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Viktor Soos
- 2nd prize: Emanuel Roch
- 3rd prize: Emanuel Ratiu
Best interpretation:
- Prize for the best interpretation of a modern piece: Laura Schlappa
- Prize for the best interpretation of a piece by Bach: Jan – Aurel Dawidiuk
Special prizes from the Carl Bechstein Foundation:
- Liszt: Viktor Soos
- Debussy: Jan – Aurel Dawidiuk
- Bartók: Charlotte SF Steppes
2016
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Andreas Salaru
- 2nd prize: Julia Kaufmann
- 3rd prize: Alejandro Gonzalez Gerwig
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Anna Karacsonyi (ex aequo)
- 1st prize: Leon Zimmermann (ex aequo)
- 3rd prize: Milo Fels
Age group 3 (14 and 15 years):
- 1st prize: Not awarded
- 2nd prize: Magnus Kuhn
- 3rd prize: Michelle Weißtuch
Age group 4 (16 and 18 years):
- 1st prize: Jean Chu
- 2nd prize: Julian Gast
- 3rd prize: Markus Philipp Schirmer
Special Prize Mozart: Claudia Peter (AG 2)
Special Prize Modern: Wenyi Xie (AG 4)
Special prizes from the Carl Bechstein Foundation:
- Liszt: Jingqi Katharina Xie (AG 2)
- Rachmaninov: Leon Zimmermann (AG 2)
2017
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Alexander William Wagner
- 2nd prize: Alejandro Gonzáles Gerwig
- 3rd prize: Julia Kaufmann
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Feng Xiang Marcus Zhai
- 2nd prize: Johann Zhao (ex aequo)
- 2nd prize: Gotthard Rubin Moseler (ex aequo)
Age group 3 (14 to 15 years):
- 1st prize: Emily Vanessa Hermann (ex aequo)
- 1st prize: Chihiro Kunimaki (ex aequo)
- 3rd prize: Michelle Wooh
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Tiankai Yu
- 2nd prize: Esther Hermann
- 3rd prize: Janita-Madeleine Schulte
Special Prize Beethoven: Alexander William Wagner (AG 1)
Special Prize Modern: Simon Staub (AG 4)
Special Prize Compulsory Piece: Simon Staub (AG 4)
Bechstein Prize Liszt: Michelle Woo (AG 3)
Bechstein Prize Liszt: Jingqi Katharina Xie (AG 3)
Bechstein Prize Scriabin: Charlotte Steppes (AG 4)
2018
Age group 1 (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Tamara Mertens
- 2nd prize: Dasha Klimas
- 3rd prize: Victoria Peters
Age group 2 (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Ildikó Rozsonits
- 2nd prize: Lisa-Marie Ehrenfried
- 2nd prize: Fengxiang Marcus Zhai
Age group 3 (14 to 15 years):
- 1st prize: Matteo Weber
- 2nd prize: Philipp Hubert
- 3rd prize: Pave Theodor Chatzipavlidis
Age group 4 (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Cynthia Maya Bal
- 2nd prize: Katharina Justus
- 3rd prize: Dingyuan Chang
Special "Schumann" award: Matteo Weber (AG III)
"Contemporary" special: Cynthia Maya Bal (AG IV)
Bechstein - Prize "Ravel": Linus Paul Dönneweg (AG III)
Bechstein - Prize "Debussy": Shion - Linda Krather (AG III)
Bechstein: Prize "Scriabin" Cynthia Maya Bal (AG IV)
2019
Age group I (8 to 10 years):
- 1st prize: Linda Yuan
- 2nd prize: Elisabeth Namchevadze
- 3rd prize: Lisa Nefedov
Age group II (11 to 13 years):
- 1st prize: Andreas Salaru (ex aequo)
- 1st prize: Jan Liebermann (ex aequo)
- 3rd prize: Anna Ulmschneider
Age group III (14 to 15 years):
- 1st prize: Leon Xu
- 2nd prize: Marvin Maung Tint
- 3rd prize: Hanna Schulte
Age group IV (16 to 18 years):
- 1st prize: Tom Pauls
- 2nd prize: Magnus Sani Kuhn
- 3rd prize: Julius Schäfer
Special prize “Bach”: Jan Liebermann AG II Special prize “Modern”: Marvin Maung TInt AG III
Bechstein Special Prize “Scriabin”: Julius Schäfer AG IV Bechstein Special Prize “Rachmaninoff”: Andreas Salaru AG II
Closing concerts
The final winners' concert for the winners of the 8th Rotary Youth Piano Competition took place as part of a matinee on June 9, 2013 in the RWE Pavilion of the Philharmonie Essen .
On July 14, 2013 the concert “Excellent Children” took place in the Philharmonie Essen .
