The preliminary rounds of the 10th edition of the triennial Joseph Joachim Violin Competition start on Saturday 13 October at 10am (German time). Bookmark this page to watch the live stream of the entire event.
The competition, which takes place over 16 days at the University of Music, Drama and Media and the NDR Landesfunkhaus, will see 33 musicians from 15 different countries competing over five rounds for a total prize fund of €140,000 as well as a range of non-monetary prizes.
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Robin Stowell reviews a collection of papers on the 19th-century violin virtuoso, edited by Valerie Woodring Goertzen and Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
The Japanese competition offers $27,000 first prize plus a package of concerts and other benefits
The British ensemble receives €10,000 and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work composed before 1830
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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