The six finalists will perform both solo and orchestral works at the 26 July final
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The six cello finalists for the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, Germany, were announced on 23 July following two days of semi finals. The three cellists on Baroque cello are: Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi, 30, from Italy; Victor Garcia Garcia, 30, from Spain; and Jakob Solle, 22, from Germany. The other three, playing modern cello, are Johannes Gray, 27, from the US; Guillem Gràcia Soler, 18, from Spain; and Léo Ispir, 22, from France.
The finals will run from 10am onwards on 26 July in Leipzig’s Protestant Reformed Church, with the players performing in the following order: Garcia Garcia, Dandolo Marches, Solle, Gràcia Soler, Gray and Ispir. The results will then be announced at 9pm.
It will be followed by the award ceremony at the Old Town Hall on 27 July, and the prize winners concert at St Thomas Church, also on 27 July.
In the finals, the cellists will be tasked with playing either the E flat major, C minor or D major solo Bach suites, and one of the following concertos with orchestra: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Concerto in A major, Jean-Louis Duport’s Concerto no.6 in D minor or Michael Haydn’s Concerto in B major.
The contestants are competing for a €10,000 first prize. Other prizes include a €7,500 second prize, €5,000 third prize, €1,000 Special Prize of the Christa Bach-Marschall Foundation, Genuin Classics award, €500 audience prize and Bärenreiter Urtext Prize.
The 2024 jury comprises Phoebe Carrai, Timothy Eddy, Ophélie Gaillard, Jens Peter Maintz, Werner Matzke, Hidemi Suzuki and Pieter Wispelwey.
The International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition is held every two years in the following alternating disciplines: piano, harpsichord and violin/baroque violin; and organ, voice, violoncello/baroque violoncello.The 2024 edition is in the latter of the two alternations.
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