The International Anton Rubinstein Competition 2022 - VIOLA
30. April - 1. May 2022, Dusseldorf
The International Anton Rubinstein Competition for Viola 2022 supports and promotes talented, young musicians, music students, soloists, and prospective orchestral musicians by providing a platform for competition and with its prestigious awards.
We will conduct all of our scheduled competitions online via video. The final rounds will be published on YouTube, FaceBook and/or Instagram on the set dates – and of course the names of the three best instrumentalists, singers or ensembles. Certificates and prizes will be sent to the winners.
The competition is organized by International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein, Flingerstr. 1, 40213 Düsseldorf.
Jury
Vassili Voronin
Vassili Voronin, born in St. Petersburg in 1980, graduated with distinction from the violin class of Prof. Antonina Kazarina at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory there. At the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, he completed his concert exam with Prof. Ariadne Daskalakis and then worked as an assistant in her class for two years. He studied chamber music and string quartet with Prof. Hatto Beyerle at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and then completed his musical education with Prof. Dora Schwarzberg at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Vassili Voronin has won prizes at international competitions. In 2006 he made his debut with his quartet at the Berlin Philharmonie and has since performed in numerous European countries, including the Stockholm Philharmonie and the Palau de la Musica in Valencia. Since 2011 he has been first violinist with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra. Since 2012 he has been teaching violin and chamber music at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf. |
Yury Bondarev
Yuri Bondarev, born in St. Petersburg, switched to the viola after studying violin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and was accepted into the class of Prof. Tatjana Masurenko at the Leipzig Academy of Music, where he also took his concert exam. Regular solo and chamber music performances have taken him to Austria, Italy, France, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Japan. He has played in various ensembles including the Vienna Musikverein, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Milan Conservatory, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. He gained his first important orchestral experience with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Masur, Daniel Harding, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Christopher Hogwood, Herbert Blomstedt and others. Since 2009 he has played as deputy principal violist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. Since 2012 he has been teaching violin, viola and chamber music at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy in Düsseldorf. |
Sheng Li
Secretary of the general Party branch of the orchestral department, Professor of Viola and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of music, young backbone teacher of Shanghai Conservatory of music, and chief professor of Shangyin King United College. In 2002, he graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of music with a master’s degree in Viola. In recent years, he has been invited to set up professional courses, lectures and master classes at Yang Xiutao School of music of National University of Singapore, Bard University Conservatory of music, China Central Conservatory of music, and music bridge of Royal mountain Conservatory of music in Canada. He was employed as a resident artist (Professor) by Curtis Conservatory of music in 2014-2015 and 2018-2019, and was a guest teacher of the Royal Conservatory of music (RCM) Give. In recent years, he has won the Shanghai gardener award, He Luting Foundation Award, Shanghai outstanding teacher award for literary and art talents, the first prize of principal award of Shanghai Conservatory of music, Shanghai Tang Junyuan outstanding teacher award, Shanghai Xuhui District Education System “Horse Award”, Shanghai May 1st Labor Medal winner, etc. The teaching students have won many awards in international competitions in recent years, mainly including the first prize in muravensky International string competition in Russia in 2016, the first place in the 62nd Washington International string competition in April 2015, the third place in the 9th Johansen International string competition in Washington in March 2015, and the young artists selection competition in New York in November 2014 In June 2014, he won the best Concerto performance award in the international Viola competition of primrose, USA; the best student award of the Verbier Festival in Switzerland in July 2013; and Lionel, UK, in March 2013 He won the first prize in the international Viola competition (tertis); the first prize in the music bridge chamber music competition of Royal mountain Conservatory of music in July 2012; the first place in the 8th Johansen International string competition in Washington, USA in March 2012; the best Bach performance award of American primrose international Viola competition in June 2011; In 2009, it won the second place in the 7th Johansen International string competition in Washington, USA; the first place in the national Viola competition in 2007; and the second place in the 6th Johansen International string competition in Washington, USA in 2006. As the first author, he has published a number of academic papers in important academic journals at home and abroad, including national music, symphony, Yuefu Xinsheng, people’s music and music research. An academic monograph about 300000 words has been published: the art of Viola performance and teaching exploration. A large number of teaching materials have been published, such as: the training repertoire of student Chamber Orchestra and 41 Capriccios for Viola by campanulli. Meanwhile, a large number of demonstration audio products have been recorded, such as the Viola Solo of Professor Xu Mengdong’s Symphony Fantasia — for Viola and Orchestra published by people’s Music Publishing house and people’s music electronic audio and video publishing house; Shanghai Conservatory of music The works of Viola in China published by the publishing house and some pieces in the selected Viola Concerto published by Shanghai Conservatory of music press. |
Competition awards
- 1st Prize
- 2nd Prize
- 3rd Prize
- 4th Prize
- 5th Prize
- 6th Prize
- Special prize for the interpretation of a modern work
Winners
Kyungsik Shin, Südkorea1st Prize
Education 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
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Yumin Park, Südkorea2nd Prize
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Celine Eberhardt, Deutschland3rd 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, USA4th Prize
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, Spanien5th Prize
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. |
Sofia Ugusheva, Russland5th Prize
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Jana Stojanovic, Niederlande6th Prize
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 |
Participants - Final Round
- Minkyung Choi, Südkorea
- Juan Cuenca Delgado, Spanien
- Eleonora De Poi, Italien
- Celine Eberhardt, Deutschland
- Qin He, China
- Vanessa Hristova, Bulgarien
- Haeji Kim, USA
- Sidney Lee, USA
- Yixiu Lin, China
- Shinichiro Miyakawa, Japan
- Julia Palecka, Polen
- Yumin Park, Südkorea
- Josefine Schäfer, Deutschland
- Kyungsik Shin, Südkorea
- Marvin Stark, Deutschland
- Jana Stojanovic, Niederlande
- Sofia Ugusheva, Russland
- Haekyung Yang, Südkorea
Participants - I. Round
- Inácia Afonso, China
- Vittorio Benaglia, Italien
- Victoria Bernath, Großbritannien
- Yuchun Cheng, Taiwan
- Minkyung Choi, Südkorea
- Juan Cuenca Delgado, Spanien
- Eleonora De Poi, Italien
- Celine Eberhardt, Deutschland
- Sara Galanti, Italien
- Andreas Grimstad, Norwegien
- Kyungsoo Ha, Südkorea
- Qin He, China
- Theresa Hořejší, Deutschland
- Vanessa Hristova, Bulgarien
- Zhen Huang, China
- Daphne Huerta, USA
- Sunmi Hwang, Südkorea
- Yukako Ichikawa, Japan
- Mariko Inoue, Japan
- Zeyang Kan, China
- Haeji Kim, USA
- Isabella Koo, Australien
- Amelia Krinke, USA
- Sidney Lee, USA
- Hui Pang Lee, China
- Yat Lee, China
- Yixiu Lin, China
- Zhiyun Liu, China
- Cheuk Lam Ma, China
- Shinichiro Miyakawa, Japan
- Maripau Navarro Bolinches, Spanien
- Dima Nedyalkova, Bulgarien
- Carlos Nicolay Roldán, Spanien
- Julia Palecka, Polen
- Javier Pardo Gil, Spanien
- Seohyun Park, Südkorea
- Yumin Park, Südkorea
- Denizsu Polat, Türkei
- Josefine Schäfer, Deutschland
- WonJeong Seol, Südkorea
- Min run Shang, China
- Kyungsik Shin, Südkorea
- Marvin Stark, Deutschland
- Jana Stojanovic, Niederlande
- Philipp Sussmann, Deutschland
- Sofia Ugusheva, Russland
- Julia Izabela Wawrowska, Polen
- Yuxi Yang, China
- Haekyung Yang, Südkorea
- Lu Yinuo, China
- Wenxin Zhao, China
- Sara Zoto, Albanien
Conditions and FAQ
- The International Anton Rubinstein Violin Competition 2022 is organized by the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein and will take place It will take place online on 30th April to 1st May, 2022.
- Violist of all nationalities and ages may take part in this competition.
- The competition will take place in two rounds, from which the Jury will decide the winners.
- Both rounds will be completed via video link on YouTube. The results of the first round will be announced by email on April, 1st, 2022.
- The final rounds will be published on YouTube, FaceBook and/or Instagram on the respective dates.
- The final round of the competition is public on the web.
- A maximum of 16 candidates will be advanced to the final. This decision will be made by the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein, using the recordings from the first round.
- In the first and final rounds may freely choose by the candidate, but must be max. 30 minutes long.
- The final results will be announced on Monday, May 2nd, 2022 with email.
- With their registration, participants authorize the organizer, i.e. the International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein, to use all photo, video and audio material of the competition at its discretion.
- The decision of the jury is final and incontestable.
- With his or her registration, the candidate agrees to the rules and regulations of the competition.
- Registration Deadline: March, 25th 2022
- Registration fee: 75€ before February, 25th 2022 and 100 € thereafter. Payment must be made into one of the two bank accounts provided and should indicate the full name of the competitor as well as the keyword „Violin Competition“.
- The registration fee is non-refundable.
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Rental of instruments
The Academy will loan valuable instruments and bows to interested finalists.
Items currently available:
- Italian viola by Nicola Utili, Castel Bolognese
- Italian viola by Biagio Caruana Marsigliese, Rome
- German viola bows by Hanns-Karl Schmidt, Dresden
- German viola bows by Paul Nürnberger, Markneukirchen
Monthly fees will be
50.00 € per bow
100.00 € to 150.00 € per viola
Finalists interested in a loan should contact violin maker Rodolfo Angilletta ahead of the contest.
Rodolfo Angilletta
Wallstraße 26
40213 Düsseldorf
Tel.: 0049 (0)211 131249
r.angilletta@arcor.de
http://www.der-geigenbauer.de