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Winners announced at 2023 ARD International Music Competition
This year’s contest saw winners in the piano trio, viola and double bass categories
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String quartet prizes awarded at ARD International Music Competition
The London-based Barbican Quartet won first prize of €24,000, as well as the prize for a commissioned piece
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Violin prizes awarded at the ARD International Music Competition
Japanese violinist Seiji Okamoto won first prize in the violin category final held on Sunday 12 September
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ARD International Music Competition 2020 is cancelled
This year’s competition has deferred this year’s four categories to 2022.
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Haruma Sato wins 2019 ARD cello competition
Japanese 21-year-old wins €10,000 cash prize plus a number of performance invitations
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ARD competition names cello finalists
Three finalists named in Bavarian Radio competition which offers cash prizes and performance invitations
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ARD competition invites 64 cellists to Munich for 2019 competition
The Bavarian Radio competition offers cash prizes and numerous performance opportunities
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Diyang Mei plays viola arrangement of prelude from Bach's Cello Suite no.5
Chinese violist Diyang Mei recently clinched first place in the viola section of the ARD Music Competition in Munich. ‘He is an imaginative interpreter,’ our correspondent Chloe Cutts wrote in her report of the final rounds and his performance of the Bartók concerto. ‘In his hands the opening theme wandered ...
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Postcard from Munich: the 2018 ARD International Music Competition
The viola and piano trio category winners of the Munich event demonstrated an exceptional level of maturity and insight, writes Chloe Cutts
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ARD announces viola and piano trio participants for 2018
Launched in 1952, the competition focuses each year on different instrumental categories, selected from 21 disciplines
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ARD Violin Competition awards no first prize – again
Munich event has many precedents of leaving the top spot empty, including at its last edition in 2013
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ARD Competition announces violin finalists
Launched in 1952, the competition focuses each year on different instrumental categories, selected from 21 disciplines.
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ARD International Music Competition 2016 names double bass and string quartet winners
Held annually in Germany since 1952, the contest focuses on different instrument categories each year
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Twists and turns – and a deserving first prizewinner in Munich
For the first time in its history, women alone made the solo instrument finals at the International ARD Music Competition – and there was only one first prizewinner. Heather Kurzbauer reports