The International Anton Rubinstein Competition 2022 - VIOLA

Education
November 2020-Present Universität der Künste Berlin – Master, Instrumentalsolist Viola
Class of Prof.Hartmut Rohde
Seoul National University – Bachelor of Viola (graduated at the head of the string department)
2016-2019 – Studied with Prof.Eunsik Choi

Competitions/Awards

28th International Johannes Brahms Competition 2021/ 1st Prize (Pörtschach , Austria)

DAAD Scholarship Selection 2022~2024/ Postgraduate Studies in the Field of Music

KBS(Korean Broadcasting System) Competition 2020/ 1st Prize in String section

Dong-A Newspaper Competition 2018/ 1st Prize

Hyun-Dai Foundation Scholarship Selection 2017~2019/

Performing Arts Scholarship of 30 000€

The Korea Herald Competition 2016/ 1st Prize

Korean Chamber Orchestra Competition 2015/ 1st Prize

The Strad Competition 2014/ 1st Prize

The Music Education Newspaper Competition 2012/ 1st Prize

Céline Eberhardt, born in 2004 in Stuttgart/Germany, began to play the viola when she was 8 years old. She has been taught by Lydia Bach at the Stuttgart Music School. Since 2021 Céline has been a junior student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Roland Glassl.

In chamber music she played with various ensembles (viola quartet, piano quintet, piano trio etc.) supported by the Stuttgart Music School as well as by the Deutsche Musikrat. In November 2021 she performed as a soloist with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Stuttgart Music School in the Liederhalle Stuttgart. Céline gathered experience as an orchestra musician from 2018 to 2021 as principal violist of the Youth Chamber Orchestra Stuttgart that toured Japan in 2019.

During the past years Céline was awarded several first and second prizes at the German national youth competition “Jugend musiziert” in different categories, such as viola solo, duo viola and piano, string quartet and piano chamber music. In 2019 and in 2021 she achieved the maximum score. In 2020 she won the first prize at the Karel Kunc Competition in Bad Dürkheim/Germany and in 2021 the second prize at the international competition “The Muse” in Athens/Greece.

Céline gained important inspiration in master classes with Atar Arad, William Coleman, Erich Krüger, Nimrod Guez, Julia Galic and Eckhard Fischer among others.

Furthermore, Céline received numerous scholarships awarded by foundations, such as Deutscher Musikrat, Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Landesmusikrat Baden-Württemberg, Ruth-Ilse-Lenz-Stiftung and by Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2021. Since spring 2022 Céline has been a scholarship holder at Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Association in Munich.

Sidney Lee, 18, is a Merit Scholarship Fellow at the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, where she studies with Roland Vamos and Davis King. A native of San Francisco, Sidney began playing violin at the age of 4, and later started viola at 14. As a member of the Perlman Music Program, she has spent her summers studying under Itzhak Perlman, Carol Rodland, and Kirsten Docter. Sidney was named a 2022 National YoungArts winner, a semifinalist in the 9th Johansen International Competition in Washington DC, and a semifinalist in the Stulberg International String Competition. She has received 1st prize from the National Federation of Music Club’s Wendell Irish Viola Award, American Opera Society of Chicago, and Musician’s Club of Women, among others. She has taken masterclasses from Paul Neubauer, Matthew Lipman, Richard O’Neill, and Phillip Ying.

An avid chamber musician, Sidney won 1st prize in the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition and was a semifinalist in the 2021 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She is also a mentor for the No Repeats Project, a group that teaches music to incarcerated teens in juvenile detention.

In fall 2022, Sidney will attend the Harvard-New England Conservatory dual degree program.

Juan Cuenca Delgado was born in 1999 in Madrid (Spain). At the age of 8 he moved to Cazorla (Jaén), where he currently lives.

He started to play the viola when he was 12, in the class of professor Enrique Gómez Grau at “Maestro Paterna” Conservatory (Cazorla). Later, he studied with professor Mª Luisa Lemus Campelo at “Andrés Segovia” Professional Conservatory (Linares).

In 2018, he began the Bachelor Degree under guiadance of professor Vicent Nogués at CSMCLM (Castilla-La Mancha Conservatory), and at this moment he is in the last year of the Bachelor with professor David Fons (from who has received lesson since he was 14) at Musical Arts Madrid School of Music.

For several years he took lessons from violist Igor Sulyga (Kopelman Quartet). He has also studied under the supervision of Joaquín Riquelme at the Orchestral Academy of Barenboim-Said’s Fundation (Sevilla).

Juan has attended masterclass from prestigious violist like Lars Anders Tomter, Wilfried Strehle, Sophie Reuter, Josep Puchades, Luis LLácer, Inés Picado, Julia Chu-Ying Hu, Francesc Gaya, or the Shangai Quartet in chamber music.

He has been awared in several solo music competitions like the First Prize String Player (17-21 years) in the National Competition “City of Xátiva”2020, or the Second Prize in the National Competition “América Martínez” 2015 among others. In chamber music, he got the Second Prize in the National Chamber Music Competition “City of Ávila” 2019, and the Second (2016) and Third Prizes (2017) in the “Lorenzo Palomo” Chamber Music Competition (Andalucía).

About his orchestral formation, he has been member of the Spanish National Youth Orchestra (JONDE) since 2019, where he has played as principal and tutti. Here he has played under the baton of conductors like James Conlon, Josep Pons, Lutz Köhler, Lucas Macías, Jordi Françés, Javier Ulises Illán, Francois López-Ferrer, Isabel Rubio and Luis Miguel Méndez, at the most important halls in Spain like the Spanish National Auditory of Music (Madrid), The Maestranza (Sevilla), Zaragoza, Santander, Valladolid etc… In the JONDE, he has worked with musicians like Anna Puig, Hilary Metzger, Álvaro Gallego, Yuval Gotlibovich and Josep Puchades.

Reina Sofía School of Music invited him to participate with the Freixenet Orchestra in the opening concert of the International Meeting Santander 2018 conducted by Juanjo Mena.

Since 2021, he is academist at ADDA Simfònica Orchestra (Alicante), he has collaborated in several programs with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra during the last year, and at this moment he is one of the two candidates in the final round of the auditions for a viola tutty vacancy in Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

Juan is member of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) since February 2022.

Jana Stojanović was born in 1998 into a musical family. She received her first violin lessons from her mother Tatjana Smatlik in MS “J. Slavenski “, then she transferred to MS “Dr. V. Vučković” where she graduated violin (B.Jakšić) and viola (J.Stojanović). During high school she won numerous awards at national competitions and participated in international projects such as: Symphony Orchestra Jeunesses Musicales Suisse-Switzerland, ESYO-Italy, “MUSICA MUNDI” -Belgium (Chamber Music Masterclass). In 2017 he became a member of the National Jeugd Orchestra in the Netherlands. 

After graduating high school she is admitted to the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade (FMU) in the class of P. Veličković. In that period she has also performed with orchestras: RTS, Camerata Serbica, Belgrade Philharmonic, etc. 

Then she was invited to continue her viola studies at the prestigious “International Menuhin Music Academy” (IMMA) in Switzerland in the class of Prof. Ivan Vukčević. There she became a member of the ‘Menuhin Academy Soloists’ with whom as a soloist, and within various chamber ensembles, she has made numerous appearances throughout Switzerland (Victoria Hall-Geneva, KKL-Luzern) as well as in Germany, France and Monaco. She has also had performances at numerous festivals, several of which have been at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad. She has had the opportunity to perform with some of today’s greatest artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Renaud Capucon, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Valeriy Sokolov, Gary Hoffman, Cecilia Bartolí, Gilles Apap, Olga Sitkovetsky, Baiba Skride, Oleg Kaskiv, Anastasia Kobekina etc. She also had the opportunity to work individually with the following artists-pedagogues: Maxim Vengerov, Pinchas Zuckerman, Gerard Causse, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Gabor Takacs-Nagy, Roustem Saitkulov, Vag Papian, Michael Klotz and others. In 2021, she performed intensively in Serbia as a soloist and a chamber musician at numerous festivals (Arlemm, Strings festival, Convivium Musicum, etc.). In the same year she was a finalist and a laureate of the prestigious Johannes Brahms competition in Austria