International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition

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The International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition, Hanover (also: International Violin Competition Hanover or Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hanover) is one of the best-endowed awards worldwide. [1] [2] It is held in Hanover, triennially, for a total of 12 young violinists. The competition is run before an international jury and 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 of the competition are the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (HMTMH), the Hanover State Opera, the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) [3] with its NDR Radiophilharmonie, the radio NDR Kultur, the Fritz Behrens Foundation, Warner Classics, G. Henle Verlag and several companies. [3] The competition is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in Geneva. [1]

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History

On the initiative of the musician Krzysztof Węgrzyn, and launched in 1991 by the Lower Saxony Foundation, the Hanover International Violin Competition was organized for the first time in the same year. The head of the Foundation's programme department organized the competition, while Węgrzyn, concertmaster of the Lower Saxony State Orchestra, and also a professor at the HMTMH, took on the artistic direction. [1]

Procedure

Each competition programme 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. There is an accompanying programme with extensive outreach under the categories:

-with the aim that the performance of the competition participants should be carried as “far into the country as possible and enable access to classical music to a broad audience". [4]

Previously, in five rounds, 35 selected musicians demonstrate their virtuosity and expressiveness to the international jury of at least ten people, chaired by Krzysztof Wegrzyn, aiming to earn the title of „Preisträger des Internationalen Joseph Joachim Violinwettbewerbs, Hannover“ ("Prize Winner of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Hanover"). In 2021 the competition format changed somewhat, for example, the upper age limit was raised to 32. [2]

Prizes

A total of 140,000 euros will be awarded in the form of prize money to twelve outstanding participants. The competition prizes include grants 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 for 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 award winners have been given a golden statuette depicting a figure playing the violin, created by the artist Sebastian Peetz.

The Fritz Behrens Foundation temporarily loans 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. That year the 3rd prize winner also received the 5,000 Euro Critics' Prize and the Audience Prize. [5]

Award winners

Previous winners of the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition, Hanover were: [6]

Year1st prize2nd prize3rd prize
1991 Flag of Germany.svg Antje Weithaas [6] Flag of the United States.svg Catherine Cho [6] Flag of Poland.svg Bartlomiej Niziol [6]
1994 Flag of the Republic of China.svg Robert Chen Flag of Russia.svg Anton Barachovsky Flag of Germany.svg Latica Honda-Rosenberg  [ de ]
1997 Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg Michiko Kamiya Flag of Italy.svg Francesco Manara Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Bin Huang
2000 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Frank Huang Flag of Ukraine.svg Andrey Bielow Flag of Germany.svg Arabella Steinbacher
2003 Flag of Yugoslavia (1992-2003); Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006).svg Flag of France.svg Nemanja Radulovic Flag of Japan.svg Saeka Matsuyama Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Feng Ning
2006 Flag of Germany.svg Suyoen Kim  [ de ] Flag of South Korea.svg Hyun-Su Shin Flag of Japan.svg Kana Sugimura
2009 Flag of Japan.svg Fumiaki Miura  [ de ] Flag of Germany.svg Clara-Jumi Kang Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg Yura Lee
2012 Flag of South Korea.svg Dami Kim

Flag of Moldova.svg Alexandra Conunova-Dumortier

Not awarded Flag of Germany.svg Tobias Feldmann  [ de ]
2015 Flag of Russia.svg Sergei Dogadin Flag of Japan.svg Shion Minami Flag of the United States.svg Richard Lin
2018 Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Timothy Chooi Flag of Ukraine.svg Dmytro Udovychenko Flag of France.svg Cosima Soulez Larivière
YearJoseph Joachim AwardLaureates
2021 [7] Flag of the United States.svg Maria Ioudenitch Flag of Germany.svg Chiara Sannicandro; Flag of Spain.svg Javier Comesaña; Flag of Japan.svg Minami Yoshida

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