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Trio Gaspar, winner of the JOSEPH JOACHIM Chamber Music
Competition 2012 | Photo: Maik Schuck
Many-Voiced Unison: The 7th
International JOSEPH JOACHIM
Chamber Music Competition in
Weimar with international resonance
Just like the great Weimar Liszt Piano Competition, this contest is
also a member of the "World Federation of International Music
Just like the great Weimar Liszt Piano Competition, this contest is
also a member of the "World Federation of International Music
Competitions": the JOSEPH JOACHIM Chamber Music Competition
at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. For the seventh
time, the international contest will now take place from the 1st until
the 8th of April 2016 at the Festival Hall of the Fuerstenhaus of the
Weimar Music University.
Its worldwide network and precise focus on the target group always
attract top-quality contestants. At the last competition in 2012, the
"Trio Gaspard" won the first prize. The deadline for registration is
the 4th of January 2016.
During the three competition rounds in April 2016, ensembles in the
instrumentations of string trio and string quartet as well as piano
trio and piano quartet are cordially invited to show the top-quality,
international jury how skilled they are in the sophisticated art of
fusing sounds while maintaining individual nuances of expression.
Under the guidance of jury chairwoman and Weimar violin professor
Anne-Kathrin Lindig, the jurors will include Jonathan Aner, Bruno
Canino, Isabel Charisius, Lukas Hagen, Erich Krüger, Irene Schwalb
and Raphael Wallfisch. Ensembles of all nationalities are eligible
to participate whose members were born after April 2, 1976. The
average age of the ensemble members may not exceed 32 years.
The repertoire requirements comprise three works composed
before 1830, three works from the Romantic period and one work
composed after 1900. A small composition competition among the
music universities of central Germany took place especially for the
JOSEPH JOACHIM Chamber Music Competition.
JOSEPH JOACHIM Chamber Music Competition.
The prize-winning works of the category "string trio/ string quartet"
will be heard as mandatory repertoire in April 2016. The 1st prize
was awarded to the Weimar composition student Eunsung Kim for
his works "re" for string trio and "re" for string quartet.
The 3rd prize was awarded to the Dresden composition student
Misawa Yukari for "Dessin von Schungel-Sonata" ("Design of Jungle
Sonata") and "SOBYOU von Dschungel-Sonata" ("SOBYOU of
Jungle Sonata"). All the prizes were funded by the Ernest Sauter
Stiftung; the second prize was not awarded.
The best participants of the 7th International JOSEPH JOACHIM
Chamber Music Competition can expect prizes and special prizes
totalling more than 20,000 Euros: The 1st prize, worth 10,000
Euros, the 2nd prize (5,000 Euros) and the 3rd prize (2,500 Euros).
In addition there will be four special prizes worth 1,000 Euros each,
financed by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG WEIMAR and the Ernest
Sauter Stiftung, as well as various subsequent concerts.
More information: www.hfm-weimar.de/joachim