The International Anton Rubinstein Competition 2022- DOUBLE BASS

24. & 25. September 2022, Dusseldorf

For years, the Anton Rubinstein International Competitions have enjoyed a great response. Especially in times marked by global crises, it is more important than ever to offer young musicians in their training and at the beginning of their career platforms on which they can test their skills and show themselves to the audience. That’s why our competitions have been held online since September 2021 – enabling candidates from all corners of the globe to participate.
Taking place online gives the young participants a particularly large public, as the videos of all finalists are documented on our website and the award winners are announced on our social media platforms.
The juries are composed of lecturers from the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy and renowned guests.

The competition is organized by International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein, Flingerstr. 1, 40213 Düsseldorf.

 Jury

Igor Prokopets
Biography 

Igor Prokopets, born in Minsk, grew up in Tel Aviv, lives in Berlin since 2000.
He completed his main studies at the HfM “Hanns Eisler” in the class of Prof. Barbara Sanderling. This was followed by a concert examination at the UdK Berlin with Prof. Michael B. Wolf, which he completed with distinction. Regular solo and chamber music performances take him all over the world. Mr. Prokopets gained his most important orchestral experience, among others, with the
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, RSB, Munich Philharmonic, Ensemble Modern with, among others, Valery Gergiev, Ivan Fisher, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Simon Rattle, Christoph Eschenbach.
Since 2007 he has been a permanent member of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Since then he has been teaching orchestra audition preparation, chamber music and
solo repertoire. Since 2012, he has been a lecturer and mentor of the Kurt Sanderling Orchestra Academy of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Since 2019, co-founder and permanent guest professor of the Mecklenburg Castle Academy. Mr. Prokopets regularly gives master classes in Japan, China, Canada etc.

Since April 2021 he is a lecturer of double bass at the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein and at the Beethoven Conservatory.
Vlado Zatko
Biography 

Vlado Zatko was born in Slovakia in 1979 and received his first double bass lessons with Jan Krigovsky at the Žilina Conservatory. After only two years, he won 2nd prize at the National Double Bass Competition in Bratislava. This was followed by studies in Germany with Professors Klaus Trumpf and Dorin Marc, and as the last student of Maestro Ovidiu Badila (†). In 2006 he graduated with honors from Klaus Trumpf’s soloist class in Munich. A first permanent engagement took him to the Royal Chapel and Opera Copenhagen in 2006, where he rose to the position of assistant principal bass in 2007. Since October 2008 Vlado Zatko has been 1st solo bassist of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a guest in numerous orchestras, including the Bavarian State Orchestra Munich, the Orchestra of the German Opera Berlin, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, the Malmö Symfoniorkester, the double bass quartet Bassiona Amorosa and the Berlin Soloist Octet. Since 2012 he has been teaching at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Vlado Zatko plays the double bass “Acriter et Fideliter” anno 2015 by Marco Nolli from Cremona.

Vlado Zatko teaches in double bass at the Anton Rubinstein International Academy of Music.
Xu Luo
Biography 

Double bassist Xu Luo is an associate professor of the Orchestral Instruments Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, a master’s supervisor, and the Deputy Secretary General of the string society of China Music Association. He has won many awards including the 2006 International double bass competition in Bern, Switzerland, and the highest diploma in music performance in Europe – Solistendiplom. He worked for Oper Frankfurt in Germany and was a guest musician of Munich Philharmonic Orchestra,  Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich in Switzerland and Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra in Germany. In recent years, his two CD albums of “Double Bassissimo” and “Super Bass”, and the bass teaching material “37 Orchestra Excerpts ” have been widely praised. Many of the students under his guidance have won good results in many double bass competitions abroad.

 Competition awards

  • 1st prize
  • 2nd prize
  • 3d prize
  • 4th prize
  • 5th prize
  • 6th prize

 Winners

Nina Bernat, USA

1st prize
Biography 

Double bassist Nina Bernat is the first prize winner at the 2019 International Society of Bassists
Solo Competition, Minnesota Orchestra Young Artists Competition, and Juilliard Double Bass Competition. At the age of 19, she performed as guest principal of the Israel Philharmonic under Adrás Schiff and Osmo Vänskä as well as with the New York Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. In the summer of 2022, she will be performing at the Grace Note Farm Music Festival, which she helped to organize, as well as the prestigious Marlboro Music Festival with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida.
She currently studies under Tim Cobb and cellist Astrid Schween at the Juilliard School as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.

Chaemun Im, Südkorea

2nd prize
Biography 
  • Korea National University of Arts Bachelor
  • Universität der Künste Berlin Soloist Master
  • 2022- studying in Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln for Konzertexamen
  • 2021- Academist in Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
  • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Hamburg Staatsoper guest played

Jingyi Cui, China

3d prize
Biography 

Cui Jingyi, a sophomore in the orchestra department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, studies with Professor Luo Xu, a European bass player. From 2009 to 2015, I studied cello. In 2018, she studied the bass from Chen Hang, the former chief bass player of Hebei Symphony Orchestra. She once won the gold medal in the China Singapore International Music Competition in Hebei, won the gold medal in the general high school group of the Tang Yun Jiahua International Bass Festival for two consecutive years, and was admitted to the Orchestra Department of Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2021 to learn from the European bass player Luo Xu.

Riccardo Baiocco, Italien

4th prize
Biography 

Riccardo Baiocco was born in 1998 and studied with Piermario Murelli at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milano, graduating in 2017 with full marks.
He continued his studying at the Stauffer Center of Strings of Cremona and Sermoneta with Franco Petracchi, the Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Giuseppe Ettorre and in 2022 he obtained the Master of Arts with Alberto Bocini at the Haute école de musique de Genève.
He has obtained the eligibility to collaborate as Tutti double bass in various orchestras including the OSR, the OCG, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Sinfonierochester Basel, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, ORT, Arena di Verona and as first double bass at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste.

Dmytro Rudyk, Ukraine

5th prize
Biography 

Born on August 3, 2000 in Ukraine. He studied violin at a music school, and from the age of 13 he played the double bass. Since 2015, he studied at the Ternopil Music College. Then, in 2019, he began studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen.
During the period of his professional musical development, he won prizes at national music competitions in the cities of Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro). Participated in master classes of Carl Flesch Akademie in Banden Baden, Rhodius Akademie and Master clases in Weimar with Wies de Boeve, Dorin Marc, Janne Saksala, Christine Hoock, Gunars Upatnieks, Michinori Bunya, Dan Styffe, Petru Iuga. He had solo concerts with orchestras of Ukraine, performed in the Baden Baden Philharmonic and had concerts in chamber ensembles of various composition.

Begüm Aslan, Türkei

6th prize
Biography 

Begüm Aslan is a double bass player and a composer living in Berlin. She is studying in Barenboim-Said Akademie with conductor/double bassist Nabil Shehata and composer Zeynep Gedizlioglu. From September 2022, Aslan also continues her bass education with Gunars Upatnieks. She won various awards and competitions. She had the opportunity to work with Daniel Barenboim, Michael Barenboim, Michael Wendeberg, Sennu Laine, Franco Petracchi, Bozo Paradzik, Dorin Marc, Artem Chirkov, Miloslav Gajdos, Dan Styffe and many more.

 Participants - Final Round

 Participants - I. Round

  • Begüm Aslan, Türkei
  • Riccardo Baiocco, Italien
  • Nina Bernat, USA
  • Chen Chen, China
  • Le Chen, China
  • Jingyi Cui, China
  • Alexander Ferkey, Großbritannien
  • Yuhao Gu, China
  • Lysander Herndl, Österreich
  • Zhengxiao Huang, China
  • Chaemun Im, Südkorea
  • Hong Yiu Thomas Lai, China
  • Felix Linden, Deutschland
  • Jiahui Qian, China
  • Bowen Qian, China
  • Dmytro Rudyk, Ukraine
  • Wing Sum Charmaine Siu, China
  • Zixu Wang, China
  • Shenhao Wang, China
  • Chencheng Wang, China
  • Yipeng Yang, China

 Conditions and FAQ

  1. The International Anton Rubinstein Competition for Double Bass 2022 will be held by the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf, Germany from September 24-25, 2022 online.
  2. Double bassists of all nations can participate in this competition without age limit.
  3. Two rounds will take place, from which the jury will choose the winners.
  4. The first round will be completed via video link on YouTube. The results will be announced by email on 08.09.2022.
  5. The final round will be published on YouTube, FaceBook and/or Instagram on the set dates.
  6. The finals of the contest will be public on the web.
  7. A maximum of 16 candidates in total will be admitted to the competition. The International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein in Düsseldorf will decide on the admission of the candidates after the first round.
  8. The program for the first round and for the finals can be chosen freely and must not exceed 30 minutes.
  9. The announcement of the results of the competition, as well as the awarding of prizes and certificates will take place on Sunday, 25.09.2022 at about 19:00. Certificates and prizes will be sent to the winners.
  10. With their registration, the participants allow the organizer to freely dispose of the photo, audio and video recordings made during the event.
  11. The jury’s decision is final.
  12. With their registration, the candidates confirm their agreement with the conditions of the competition.
  13. Deadline for registration is 02.09.2022
    Participation fee – 100€,
  14. The participation fee will not be refunded in any case.
Schedules
  • Schedules are being worked on and will be published soon.
Winners