This year’s contest saw winners in the piano trio, viola and double bass categories
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The ARD International Music Competition concluded on 10 September in Munich, Germany. This year featured competitors in viola, double bass and piano trio.
Continuing a run of successes, the Trio Orelon (Germany) received the first prize in the piano trio category. Made up of violinist Judith Stapf, cellist Arnau Rovira i Bascompte and pianist Marco Sanna, the group won €18,000 for its performance of trios by Schubert and Hans Werner Henze. The trio, which also won the audience prize, has previously come first in its category at the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and the 2022 ’Franz Schubert and Modern Music’ International Chamber Music Competition. Second prize went to the Amelio Trio (Germany), while third went to Trio Pantoum (France).
In the viola category, Haesue Lee (23, South Korea) took the €10,000 first prize and the audience award. No second prize was awarded, while the third prize jointly went to Takehiro Konoe (25, Netherlands/Japan) and Ionel Ungureanu (28, Germany), who also received the prize for best performance of the commissioned piece.
In the double bass category, Gabriel Polinsky (24, US) took the €10,000 first prize while Hongyiu Thomas Lai (28, Hong Kong) came second, also receiving the audience prize. Third went to José Trigo (27, Portugal).
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The juries for each category were as follows. Piano trio: Susan Tomes (chair), Jitka Čechová, Soo-Kyung Hong, Esther Hoppe, Per Lundberg, Raphaël Pidoux, and Annette von Hehn. Viola: Lars Anders Tomter (chair), Steven Ansell, Tatjana Masurenko, Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, Naoko Shimizu, Edward Vanderspar and Wen Xiao Zheng. Double bass: Timothy Cobb (chair), Heinrich Braun, Michinori Bunya, Christine Hoock, Goran Kostic, Daniele Roccato and Sandrine Vautrin.
The ARD competition has been held every year since 1952. In an annually changing cycle, different instrumental subjects or singing are the focus of the competition. The list of previous award winners includes Mitsuko Uchida, Francisco Araiza, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuri Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff, Heinz Holliger, Maurice André, Sharon Kam and Peter Sadlo.
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