ARD International Music Competition

The ARD International Music Competition is the largest international classical music competition in Germany. It is held once a year in Munich.

History

Since its inception in 1952, the ARD International Music Competition has become one of the most prestigious classical music competitions.^{[citation needed]} It was started by the broadcasting corporations of what was once known as the Federal Republic of Germany. It is run under the backing of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and takes place usually in September. Winning a prize at this ARD International Music Competition has been an enormous aid for internationally famous artists^{[citation needed]} such as Jessye Norman, Francisco Araiza, Natalia Gutman, Christoph Eschenbach, Nobuko Imai, Mitsuko Uchida, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuri Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Heinz Holliger, Isabelle Moretti, Peter Sadlo, and Maurice André, to name just a few.

The ARD International Music Competition has its roots in an earlier competition. Between 1947 and 1950 the Frankfurter Rundfunk assisted this “Young Soloists Competition”. The earliest competition discovered two female vocalists who would soon take their place among the international talented: Christa Ludwig and Erika Köth. Instrumentalists included the flautist Karl-Heinz Zöller and the pianist Robert Alexander Bohnke. This newly founded ARD continued the concept of bringing together talented young musicians from the entire globe.

The first ARD International Music Competition took place in 1952. What makes this competition so unique^{[clarification needed]} is that the categories alter from year to year to include solo instruments, as well as voice and chamber ensembles. The importance of including modern music has been very prominent; contemporary composers have regularly been commissioned to write new pieces for this Competition ever since the year 2001. The ARD International Music Competition not only stimulates competition among the many musicians but also serves the musical citizens as a centre where musicians can meet.

Anywhere from 350 to 450 young musicians apply each year to compete. Some 200 candidates coming from 35 to 40 countries make it past the preliminary round. A large percentage of competitors come from countries other than Germany (up to 86%) and this provides the highest levels of competition.^{[citation needed]}

From 2001 to 2005, Christoph Poppen, then the conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, has been Artistic Director of the ARD International Music Competition. Ingeborg Krause took over the task of organising the competition that same year, after serving 35 years as the head of another famous German competition called the “Jugend musiziert”.

In 2007, the ARD International Music Competition was in September for the categories of oboe, trombone, percussion and piano trio. The of original compositions by Johannes Maria Staud, Søren Nils Eichberg, Jörg Widmann and Maricio Kagel will be required to be played.

Winners of past competitions

2011

Oboe
- 1st Prize: not awarded
- 2nd Prize: Tondre, France with Public Prize; Ivan Podyomov, Russia (share)
- 3rd Prize: Cristina Gómez Godoy, Spain; Marc Lachat, France

Organ
- 1st Prize: Schöch, Austria
- 2nd Prize: Anna-Victoria Baltrusch, German
- 3rd Prize: Lukas Stollhof, Dutch

Trumpet
- 1st Prize: Manuel Blanco Gómez-Limón, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Alexandre Baty, France
- 3rd Prize: Ferenc Mausz, Hungary with Public Prize

Piano
- 1st Prize: Alexej Gorlatch, Ukraine with Public Prize
- 2nd Prize: Tori Huang, USA
- 3rd Prize: Da Sol Kim, South Korea

2010

Flute
- 1st Prize: Loïc Schneider, France
- 2nd Prize: Daniela Koch, Austria
- 3rd Prize: Sooyun Kim, South Korea/US
- BR Klassik Prize: Ivannay Ternay, Ukraine

Cello
- 1st Prize: Julian Steckel, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Gen Yokosawa, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Tristan Cornut, France

French Horn
- 1st Prize: Přemsyl Vojta, Czech Republik
- 2nd Prize: Dániel Ember, Hungary; Paolo Mendes, Germany (shared)

Piano Duo
- 1st Prize: (not awarded)
- 2nd Prize: Hyun Joo & Hee Jin June - Remnant Piano Duo, South Korea
- 3rd Prize: Susan & Sarah Wang - DoubleWang Duo, USA
- Special Prize: Pianoduo Groebner & Trisko, Austria

2009

Violin
- 1st Prize: Hyeyoon Park, Korea
- 2nd Prize: Kei Shirai, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Lily Francis, USA

Double Bass
- 1st Prize: Gunars Upatnieks, Latvia
- 2nd Prize: Stanislau Anishchanka, Belarus
- 3rd Prize: Olivier Thiery, France; Ivan Zavgorodniy, Ukraine (shared)

Voice
- 1st Prize: Anita Watson, Australia; (none awarded for male voice)
- 2nd Prize: Sunyoung Seo, Korea; Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Hye Jung Lee, Korea; Falko Hönisch, Germany

2008

Viola
- 1st Prize: not awarded
- 2nd Prize: Wen Xiao Zheng, China
- 3rd Prize: Teng Li, China

Clarinet
- 1st Prize: Sebastian Manz, Germany
- 2nd Prize: not awarded
- 3rd Prize: Shelly Ezra, Israel; Taira Kaneko, Japan (shared)

Bassoon
- 1st Prize: Marc Trénel, France
- 2nd Prize: Christian Kunert, Germany; Philipp Tutzer, Italy (shared)
- 3rd Prize: Václav Vonášek, Czech Republic

String Quartet
- 1st Prize: Apollon Musagete Quartett, Poland
- 2nd Prize: Afiara String Quartet, Canada
- 3rd Prize: Gémeaux Quartet, Germany/Switzerland; Verus String Quartet, Japan (shared)

2007

Oboe
- 1st Prize: Ramón Ortega Quero, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Ivan Podyomov, Russia
- 3rd Prize: Maria Sournatcheva, Russia

Trombone
- 1st Prize: Fabrice Millischer, France
- 2nd Prize: Frederic Belli, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Juan Carlos Matamoros, Spain

Percussion
- 1st Prize: Johannes Fischer, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Vassilena Serafimova, Bulgaria

Piano Trio
- 1st Prize: Tecchler Trio, Switzerland / Germany
- 2nd Prize: Morgenstern Trio, Germany / France
- 3rd Prize: Trio Cérès, France

2006

Voice/Opera
- 1st Prize: Jun Mo Yang, Korea
- 2nd Prize: Joshua Hopkins, Canada
- 3rd Prize: Ilse Eerens, Belgium
- 3rd Prize: Anna Kasyan, Armenia

Voice/Lied
- 2nd Prize: Roxana Constantinescu, Rumania
- 2nd Prize: Carolina Ullrich, Chile / Germany
- 3rd Prize: Colin Balzer, Canada
- 3rd Prize: Peter Schöne, Germany

Piano
- 1st Prize: Benjamin Kim, USA
- 2nd Prize: Hisako Kawamura, Japan
- 2nd Prize: Marianna Shirinyan, Armenia

Wind Quintet
- 1st Prize: Quintette Aquilon, France
- 2nd Prize: Quintett Chantily, Germany / Hungary / Russia / Finland
- 3rd Prize: Weimarer Bläserquintett, Germany

2005

Violin
- 1st Prize: Keisuke Okasaki, Japan
- 2nd Prize: Akiko Yamada, Japan
- 3rd Prize: Katja Lämmermann, Germany

Cello
- 1st Prize: Jing Zhao, China
- 2nd Prize: Alexander Bouzlov, Russia
- 3rd Prize: Alexander Chaushian, Armenia/GB

French Horn
- 1st Prize: Szabolcs Zempléní, Hungary
- 2nd Prize: Louis-Philippe Marsolais, Canada
- 2nd Prize: Renate Hupka, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Christoph Eß, Germany

Piano Duo
- 2nd Prize: Victor y Luis del Valle, Spain
- 2nd Prize: Piano Duo Poskute - Daukantas, Lithuania
- 3rd Prize: Silivanova - Puryzhinskiy, Russia

2004

Viola
- 1st Prize: Antoine Tamestit, France
- 2nd Prize: Ryszard Groblewski, Poland
- 3rd Prize: Tomoko Akasaka, Japan

Flute
- 1st Prize: Magali Mosnier, France
- 2nd Preis: Pirmin Grehl, Germany
- 3rd Preis: Andrea Oliva, Italy

String Quartet
- 1st Prize: Quatuor Ébène, Frankreich
- 2nd Prize: Faust Quartett, Germany
- 3rd Prize: Quatuor Benaïm, Israel/France

Harp
- 1st Prize: Anton Sie, Netherlands
- 2nd Prize: Nabila Chajai, France
- 3rd Prize: Mirjam Schröder, Germany

2003

Voice (female)
- 1st Prize: Marina Prudenskaja, Russia
- 2nd Prizes: Andrea Lauren Brown, USA

Measha Brüggergosman, Canada

- 3rd Prize: Julia Sukmanova, Russia

Voice (male)
- 1st Prize: Gérard Kim, Korea
- 3rd Prizee: Tyler Duncan, Canada

Günter Papendell, Germany

Double Bass
- 1st Prize: Nabil Shehata, Germany
- 2nd Prize: Roman Patkoló, Slowakia
- 3rd Prize: Ödön Rácz, Hungary

Clarinet
- 2nd Prize: Olivier Patey, France
- 3rd Prize: Florent Pujuila, France

Trumpet
- 1st Prize: David Guerrier, France
- 2nd Prize: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Switzerland
- 3rd Prizes: Gabor Richter, Hungary

Guillaume Couloumy, France

2002

Bassoon
- 2nd Prize: Matthias Rácz, Germany
- 3rd Prizes: Jaakko Luoma, Finland

Lyndon Watts, Australia

Oboe
- 3rd Prizes: Nora Cismondi, France

Alexandre Gattet, France

Keiko Inoue, Japan

Piano
- 1st Prize: Denys Proshayev, Ukrain
- 2nd Prize: Ferenc Vizi, Rumania
- 3rd Prize: Chiao-Ying Chang, Taiwan

Pianotrio
- 2nd Prizes: Trio con Brio, Denmark/Korea

Trio Ondine, Sweden/Denmark/Norway

2001

Violin
- 2nd prize: Annette von Hehn, Germany
- 3rd prize: MinJung Kang, Korea

Yamei Yu, Germany

Violoncello
- 1st prize: Danjulo Ishizaka, Germany
- 2nd prize: Julie Albers, USA

Monika Leskovar, Croatia

- 3rd prize: Thomas Carroll, Great Britain

Saxophone
- 2nd prize: Alexandre Doisy, France
- 3rd prize: Lutz Koppetsch, Germany

Julien Petit, France

Percussion
- 1st prize: Marta Klimasara, Poland
- 2nd prize: Eirik Raude, Norway
- 3rd prize: Christophe Roldan, France

Wind Quintet
- 1st prize: Miró Ensemble, Spain
- 2nd prize: Orsolino Quintett, Germany/Austria
- 3rd prize: St. Petersburg Woodwind Quintet, Russia

2000

Voice (female singer)
- 1st prize: Zoryana Kushpler, Ukraine
- 3rd prizes: Stefanie Krahnenfeld, Germany

Christa Mayer, Germany

Voice (male singer)
- 1st prize: Konrad Jarnot, Great Britain
- 2nd prize: Nathaniel Webster, USA
- 3rd prize: Friedemann Röhlig, Germany

Viola
- 2nd prize: Danuta Waskiewicz, Germany

Flute
- 2nd prizes: Rozàlia Szabó, Hungary

Henrik Wiese, Germany

- 3rd prize: Kersten McCall, Germany

Piano Duo
- 1st prize: Mati Mikalai / Kai Ratassepp, Estonia
- 2nd prize: Duo d'Accord, Taiwan / Germany

String Quartet
- 2nd prize: Avalon String Quartett, France/ Canada/ USA
- 3rd prize: Quartetto Prometeo, Italy

1999

Piano
- 2nd prizes: Severin von Eckardstein, Germany

Oliver Kern, Germany

Violin
- 2nd prize: Bin Huang, V.R. China
- 3rd prizes: Andrei Bielov, Ukraine

Francesco Manara, Italy

Horn
- 2nd prizes: Alessio Allegrini, Italy

László Seemann, Hungary

- 3rd prize: Sibylle Mahni, Switzerland
Organ
- 2nd prize: Martin Kaleschke, Germany

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