The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017
Press release from 01/23/2017
Yesterday evening saw the end of this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. This year it was held in the violin and piano trio categories and piano trio, and students of 20 different nationalities nationalities took part in the competition. Here is an overview of the prizewinners:
Violin
Mendelssohn Prize (1st prize)
Diana Tishchenko (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin)
Prize of the Federal President (2nd prize)
Thomas Reif (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin)
Prize of the Elsa-Wera-Arnold Foundation (3rd prize)
David Petrlik (Folkwang University of the Arts)
Special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work
(Prize of the Elsa-Wera-Arnold Foundation)
Diana Tishchenko (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin)
PIANO TRIO
Mendelssohn Prize (1st prize)
Trio Marvin (Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy" Leipzig)
Prize of the Federal President (2nd prize)
Trio HON (Hamburg University of Music and Theatre)
Prize of the Elsa-Wera-Arnold-Stiftung (3rd prize)
Gutfreund Trio (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
Frankfurt am Main)
Special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work
LUX Trio (Munich University of Music and Theatre)
Prize of the Friends of Young Musicians Germany
Gutfreund Trio (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
Frankfurt am Main)
The concert was broadcast via livestream and will soon be available at
in the UdK Berlin media centre at www.udk-berlin.de.
The competition is organised by the Stiftung Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, the Rektorenkonferenz der deutschen Musikhochschulen
and the Berlin University of the Arts. This year,
, the competition is being organised for the first time under the artistic direction of
Prof. Dr Sebastian Nordmann, Director of the Konzerthausorchester
Berlin. The patron is Andris Nelsons, Music Director of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and newly appointed
Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig from
February 2018.
A group photo of the prizewinners is available for download on the competition website.
Press enquiries
Claudia Assmann
Tel. 030 3185 2456
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Partners and sponsors of the competition:
- Freunde Junger Musiker Berlin
- Freunde Junger Musiker Deutschland
- betont
- Elsa-Wera-Arnold-Stiftung
- Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig
- Musikverlag Ries&Erler
- Young Euro Classic
- Kasseler Musiktage
- Hotel Savoy Berlin
- Kulturradio vom RBB
- Deutschlandradio Kultur
- Reservix