37 young musicians have been loaned fine instruments, while four have extended the loan agreements of their current instruments
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The 31st edition of the German Musical Instrument Fund competition was held from 23 to 25 February 2024 at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg. A total of 52 young musicians competed for the chance to be loaned an outstanding stringed instrument. From this, 37 musicians secured loans, while four musicians extended the loan agreements of their current instruments.
Bettina Bermbach, managing director of the German Music Life Foundation (Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben) commented: ’The technical and musical level of the applicants was once again very high this year.
’The competition jury dealt very intensively with the musicians and their individual skills and needs in order to award the instruments in the best possible and most accurate way. We are now looking forward to getting to know our new scholarship holders and supporting their artistic development.’
Among the instruments up for grabs was a violin by G.B. Guadagnini, Piacenza 1744, from a private collection, which was loaned to 23-year-old violinist Louisa Staples , a master’s student at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. The instrument most recently belonged to the Polish violinist Michel Schwalbé (1919-2012), who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic under Herbert von Karajan for many years.
23-year-old cellist Tzu-Shao Chao, currently a master’s student at the Munich University of Music, earned a cello labelled ’Joseph Guarnerius Filius Andreae’ and also received the Dr. Alexander Sikorski scholarship. This €5,000 scholarship for outstanding young cellists is in memory of the surgeon and foot specialist Dr. Alexander Sikorski, who was an enthusiastic cellist, excellent chamber musician and committed supporter of young musicians. The scholarship donor was Régine Mazloum-Martin from Geneva.
The honorary members of the jury for this year’s competition were prof. Volker Jacobsen, viola (Hannover University of Music, Theater and Media and member of the advisory board of the German Musical Instrument Fund) - jury chairman, prof. Christian Brunnert, cello (Cologne University of Music and Dance), prof. Nora Chastain, violin (Berlin University of the Arts), prof. em. Maria Kliegel, cello (Cologne University of Music and Dance) and prof. Elisabeth Weber, violin (Lübeck University of Music).
The full list of instruments and winners are as follows:
Violin:
Louisa Staples (b.2000): Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Piacenza ca. 1744, ’ex Michel Schwalbé’
Philipp Chernomor (b.2010): Sébastian Philippe Bernadel ’père’, Paris ca.1845
Elisabeth Gühring (b.2009): Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona 1774
Eun Che Kim (b.1997): Joseph Guarneri ’Filius Andreae’, Cremona 1698-1700
Michel Lewin (b.2003): Andrea Guarneri, Cremona 1664
Johanna Schubert (b.1999): Lorenzo Storioni, Cremona 1779
Aoi Saito (b.1997): violin labelled Antonio Stradivari Cremonensis, Faciebat Anno 1716
Hani Song (b.1997): Francesco Rugeri, Cremona 1667
Dongmin Lim (b.2001) Matteo Goffriller, Venice 1715-1720
Veronika Rädler (b.2000): Carlo Giuseppe Testore, c.Milan 1710
Lea Jonscher (b.2007:) Philipp Augustin, Staufen 2018
Jueun Jeong (b.1996): Haiko Seifert, Plauen 2018
Alexey Stychkin (b.2000): Carlo Antonio Testore, Milan, 1740
Sofiko Tchumburidze (b.2000): Lorenzo Ventapane, Naples, 1795
Mira Marie Foron (b.2002): Stephano Scarampella, Mantua 1909
Viola:
Anuschka Cidlinsky (b.1996): Matteo Goffriller, Venice 1711
Eike Coetzee (b.2002): Gianbattista Ceruti, Cremona 1798
Jimin Jang (b.2000): Paolo Antonio Testore, Milan, c.1740
Yeunwoo Park (b.2002): Paolo Antonio Testore, Milan, 1749
Luisa Ye (b.2006): Stephan von Baehr, Paris 2009
Cello:
Tzu-Shao Chao (b.2001): cello labelled ’Joseph Guarnerius Filius Andreae Fecit Cremonae’
Till Schuler (b.2000): Francesco Rugeri, Cremona c.1670-1680
Jeremias Luther (b.2006): Stefano Scarampella, Mantua 1880
Merle Geißler (b.1999): Georges Chanot à Paris, c.1840
Alexandra Kahrer (b.1998): Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Brescia, 1671
Clara Yuna Friedensburg (b.2007): Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1845
Joui Karr (b.2006): cello labelled ’Joseph Guarnerius filius Francisco Andreae fecit Cremonae sub titule Sanctae Teresiae’
Seungyeon Baik (b.1999): Peter Schlarb, Aachen 2009
Arne Zeller (b.2006): Antonio Sgarbi, Rom 1894
Xuanhan Xu (b. 2004): cello labelled ’Joseph Antonius Rocca fecit Taurini anno Domini 1842’
Leopold Behrens (b.1998): cello labelled ’Joseph Gagliano Filius Nicolai et Nepos Januarius fecit’, Naples 1720
Youbien Lee (b.2000): cello labelled ’Paolo Antonio Testore’, Milan, c.1750
Maxime Grizard (b.2006): Stephan von Baehr, Paris 2009
Paula Prudlo (b.2006): cello from the school of Jacques Boquay, Paris c.1700
Yong-Jun Lee (b.1997): Pierre Pacherel, Nice 1852
Akito Marschik (b.2004): Urs. W. Mächler, Holzhausen 2018
Solveig Maria Emilsson (b.2007): Haiko Seifert, Plauen, 2016
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