22 violists and 21 violinists will compete in the competition held at the Berlin University of the Arts from 19 to 25 October

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The viola contestants for the 2024 International Max Rostal Competition

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The 2024 International Max Rostal Competition has announced contestants for this year’s edition, to be held at the Berlin University of the Arts from 19 to 25 October 2024.

Over 40 musicians have been chosen following the application round, which was held via video submission. The competition is open to violinists and violists up to age 29.

Since 2009, the competition has held the violin and viola disciplines simultaneously, having previously been held in alternately at the Bern Conservatory since 1991. Contestants will perform over three rounds for a prize pool totaling €23,000.

First prize of €7,000 will be offered to each discipline, with €3,000 and €1,500 for second and third prize respectively. An audience prize of €1,000 will be awarded in each discipline, as well as €500 each for best interpretation of the commissioned work and the special prize of the Freunde Junger Musiker Berlin e.V. The first three prize winners in each discipline will also receive sets of strings by Pirastro.

The viola competition will begin its first round on Saturday 19 October and culminate in the final round with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Pavel Baleff on Thursday 24 October. The violin first round will begin after the viola round on Sunday 20 October and finish on Friday 25 October.

The viola contestants are:

Álvaro Castelló 

Eike Coetzee 

Linda Emilsson 

Guillaume Florès

Duleen van Gunsteren

Nicolas Garrigues

Chang Ge

Gesine Hadulla

Justin Julian

Brian Isaacs

Jimin Jang

Hiroki Kasai

Mao Konishi

Jiwon Kim

Yen-Yu Ko

Marina Kosaka

Karolina Pawul

Yizilin Liang

Antonia Mütze

Andy Park

Hye Lim Yoo

Kyungsik Shin

 

The violin contestants are:

Meriel Bizri

Wonbeen Chung

Beatrice Colombis

Anna Freer

Kaori Furusawa

YiWei Gu

Benjamin Günst

Maya Alexandra Kasprzak

Sijun Kim

Masaki Morishita

Lora Markova

Eunjoong Park

Jakow Pavlenko

Aoi Saito

Veronika Rädler

Jake Dongyoung Shim

Maxim Tzekov

Sophie Wang

Varvara Vasylieva

Victoria Wong

Tiffany Yeung

The jury for the 2024 competition will be chaired by David Geringas and comprises Marianne Piketty, Kyung Sun Lee, Christoph Poppen, Lars Anders Tomter, Nils Mönkemeyer and Carol Rodland.

Robin Wilson, Nurit Stak and Emi Ohi Resnick served as the violin preliminary selection jury, while Hans Peter Ochsenhofer, Francoise Gneri and Matthias Buchholz formed the viola preliminary selection jury.

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