The Brazilian violinist received the award from the Rheingau Music Festival, celebrating in a performance at the festival on 27 June 2024
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The Rheingau Music Festival has selected the Brazilian violinist Guido Sant’Anna as this year’s recipient of the LOTTO-Förderpreis, an award given to exceptional emerging talents with the aim to encourage and motivate promising careers. The prize is donated by the Hessian lottery company and is valued at €15,000.
To celebrate his new award, Sant’Anna returned to the festival on 27 June with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen to perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. This follows his debut at the 2023 Rheingau Music Festival’s opening concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Alain Altinoglu, where he performed Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole.
Sant’Anna joins a prestigious list of previous recipients, including Sheku Kanneh-Mason, María Dueñas, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and Tarmo Peltokoski.
Sant’Anna was born in 2005 in São Paulo, Brazil. He received international acclaim in 2022 when he became the first South American violinist to win the Fritz Kreisler International Competition in Vienna. He maintains a close connection to the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and its music director Thierry Fischer in performance, a debut recording project for Naxos Records and a tour to China.
Further upcoming highlights for Sant’Anna include a performance with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Kronberg Festival, as well as orchestral debuts with the Danish Philharmonic Orchestra under Hans Graf, the Athens State Orchestra, the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and the New Mexico Philharmonic. In spring 2025, Sant’Anna will make his debut at the Elbphilharmonie as part of a European tour with the Neojibá Youth Orchestra, along with soloists Lucas and Arthur Jussen. He will also become a fellow of the stARTacademy, supported by Bayer Kultur in 2025.
Sant’Anna plays a violin made in 1874 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, on generous loan from the luthier Marcel Richters.
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