The Fritz Kreisler Worldwide Violin Competitors is open to any violinists born after September 25, 1991, who’re decided to pursue a world profession. The competitors’s pre-selection jury has chosen 50 candidates who will compete within the subsequent spherical from September 17-19, 2022.
They’re, in alphabetical order:
- Lidamari Ahonen
- Maria Andreeva
- Yurina Arai
- Ava Bahari
- Kristina Besman
- Claire Bourg
- Zachary Brandon
- Tong Chen
- Elli Choi
- Wonbeen Chung
- Fanny Fheodoroff
- Murasaki Fukuda
- Laura Handler
- Kingston Ho
- Luka Ispir
- Miray Ito
- Gyehee Kim
- Daniel Kogan
- Anna Lee
- Catherina Lee
- Jiyoon Lee
- Miyeon Lee
- Tianyou Ma
- Eri Masaoka
- Seina Matsuoka
- Jason Moon
- Raphael Nussbaumer
- Yukari Ohno
- Kyumin Park
- Lilia Pocitari
- Yamen Saadi
- Aoi Saito
- Reika Sakamoto
- Sant’Anna e Silva Guido
- Tomotaka Seki
- Dimitry Serebrennikov
- Michael Shaham
- Dongyoung Jake Shim
- Antonia Schöner
- Arseniya Sibileva
- Yuriko Takemoto
- Belle Ting
- Julian Walder
- Xiaozhuo Wang
- Jaewon Wee
- Rino Yoshimoto
- Arata Yumi
- Cernos Rok Zaeletel
- Galiya Zharova
- Leonid Zhelezny
The second spherical with 18 candidates will compete within the Semi-Finals on September 20-22. The primary spherical of Finals with six finalists can be on September 23 and the Gala Finals, with the final three rivals, can be held on September 25. The final three finalists will play with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra carried out by Marin Alsop.
Prize cash of €20,000, 15,000, 10,000, 7,000, 6,000, 5,000 will go to first by means of sixth place respectively.
The primary prize winner will obtain a number of live performance engagements together with with the Lithuanian Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Nizhny Novgorod State Philharmonic, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.
Moreover, the primary prize features a CD recording on NAXOS and a tour of Asia in Could 2023 with World Tradition Networks (WNC). We lately talked to Naxos Founder and head, Klaus Heymann, on the collaboration with the Kreisler Violin Competitors, his ideas on beginning a profession as a younger musician, and the state of the classical music trade.
Earlier main prize winners embody VC Artists William Hagen, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, and Sergey Khachatryan.