The winners of the 2012 Cremona Triennale lutherie competition
have been announced. For the first time in the contest’s 36-year
history, the judges awarded a gold medal to a female maker: Ulrike
Dederer, a German-born luthier now based in Zurich, Switzerland,
took the first prize in the viola category.
Another German maker, Ulrich Hinsberger, took the first prize in
the violin section, as well as the Walter Stauffer award for
acoustic quality. The gold medal for double bass went to Italian
Marco Nolli. Having previously won a gold medal for double bass in
1988, Nolli is the first entrant ever to win gold for two
instruments in the same category.
Nolli is also the only 2012 first prize winner who works in
Cremona, although both he and Dederer studied at the Cremona School
of Violin Making, and completed apprenticeships in the city.
Hinsberger studied at Mittenwald, Germany.
No first prize was awarded in the cello category, though Polish
maker Krzysztof Krupa took the silver medal. This year’s
competition attracted 355 competitors from 34 countries.
Each of the winning instruments will be purchased from the makers
by the Stradivari Foundation: Hinsberger and Dederer will receive
€15,000 for their instruments, and Nolli €23,000. The instruments
will be on display at a temporary exhibition hall at Cremona’s
Violin Museum until 14 October.
List of 2012 Cremona Triennale winners
Violin
1 Ulrich Hinsberger – Germany
2 Nicholas Gooch – UK
3 Gonzalo Bayolo – Spain
Viola
1 Ulrike Dederer – Switzerland
2 Charles Coquet – France
3 Florian Geyer – Germany
Cello
1 Not awarded
2 Krzysztof Krupa
3 Lorenzo Rossi – Italy
Double bass
1 Marco Nolli
2 Marianne Lenzini
3 Francisc Gyorke
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