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Watch the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition live on The Violin Channel - direct from Hannover, Germany

 

JOSEPH JOACHIM INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION

FINAL ROUND

LIVE FROM THE RICHARD JAKOBY-SAAL CONCERT HALL IN HANNOVER

 

MONDAY 22ND OCTOBER 2018

KUSS QUARTET

• 20.00pm     VC Young Artist Rennosuke Fukuda (19, Japan)
  • Beethoven String Quintet in E Flat Major Op. 4
• 20.40pm     Cosima Soulez Lariviere (21, France)
  • Mozart String Quintet in G Minor KV 516
• 21.50pm     VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi (24, Canada)
  • Mozart String Quintet in G Minor KV 516

 

TUESDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2018

KUSS QUARTET

• 20.00pm     Youjin Lee (22, South Korea)
  • Mozart String Quintet in D Major KV 593
• 20.40pm     Leonard Fu (21, Germany)
  • Mozart String Quintet in G Minor KV 516
• 21.50pm     Dmytro Udovychenko (19, Ukraine)
  • Mozart String Quintet in C Major KV 515

 

THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2018

CONDUCTOR ANDREW MANZE & NDR RADIOPHILHARMONIE

• 20.00pm     VC Young Artist Rennosuke Fukuda (19, Japan)
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major
• 20.35pm     Cosima Soulez Lariviere (21, France)
  • Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor
• 21.40pm     VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi (24, Canada)
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major

 

FRIDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2018

CONDUCTOR ANDREW MANZE & NDR RADIOPHILHARMONIE

• 20.00pm     Youjin Lee (22, South Korea)
  • Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major
• 20.35pm     Leonard Fu (21, Germany)
  • Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor
• 21.40pm     Dmytro Udovychenko (19, Ukraine)
  • Sibelius Violin Concerto in D Minor

 

A student of 2018 jury member Pavel Vernikov at the Lausanne University of Music, 19-year-old VC Young Artist Rennosuke Fukuda from Japan is a former 1st prize winner at the Menuhin Junior, Kloster Schöntal and Valsesia Musica International Violin Competitions.

A student of Competition Artistic Director Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the Hannover University of Music, 21-year-old Cosima Soulez Larivière from France/Holland is a former 1st prize winner at the Brahms International Violin Competition and the Bartok World Competition

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Ida Kavafian, and current post graduate student of Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School, 24-year-old VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi from Canada is a former major prize winner at the Schadt and Michael Hill International Violin Competitions - and in August of this year was awarded the ‘Prix Yves Paternot’ Prize for the most outstanding young musician at this year’s Verbier Festival.

A student of Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, 22-year-old Youjin Lee from South Korea is a former 1st prize winner at the Stulberg, Irving M. Klein and Washington International String Competitions.

A pre-college graduate of the Hannover and Hamburg Universities of Music, where he studied with Ina Kertscher, Lara Lev and Tanja Becker-Bender, and current student of Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory, 21-year-old Leonard Fu from Germany is a former prize winner at the Andrea Postacchini and Lipizer International Violin Competitions.

A student of Boris Garlitsky at the Folkwang University of the Arts, in Essen, Germany, 19-year-old Dmytro Udovychenko from Ukraine is a former major prize winner at the Leopold Auer, Jascha Heifetz and Odessa International Violin Competitions - and was recently awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition – in Marche, Italy.

In the Final round, all 6 Finalists will lead a performance of a Mozart or Beethoven Quintet with the Kuss String Quartet – plus present a major violin concerto with conductor Andrew Manze and the NDR Radiophilharmonie.

Krzysztof Wegrzyn, as Artistic Director, will not particulate at all in the formal voting process. 

Open to international violinists aged between 16 to 27 who are ready to embark on an international career, the 1st prize winner will receive €50,000, the three year loan of a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, an international CD release – and a number of important international performance opportunities.

The 2018 jury comprises: Salvatore Accardo, Andrej Bielow, Masafumi Hori, Kyung Sun Lee, Silvia Marcovici, Qian Zhou, Ulf Schneider, Vilmos Szabadi and Pavel Vernikov.