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57th ARD Music Competition 2008 - The Prize-Winners Have Been Selected
This year the juries awarded three first, four second and six third prizes. The total sum awarded for main and special prizes was 188,500 Euros. For the first time in 40 years, a 1st prize was again awarded in the clarinet category – and for the very first time in the 57-year history of the competition, a first prize was awarded in the bassoon category. All in all, 198 young instrumentalists from 52 countries took part in this year’s competition.Said Axel Linstädt, the Artistic Director of the Music Competition, summing things up: “I am delighted with the high performance level in all the categories and the sizable audience interest. The enthusiastic audience reaction in the sold-out Prinzregententheater at the string quartet finals made me very happy.”
Prize winners 2008
Viola
First prize: not awarded
Second prize: Wen Xiao Zheng (China)
Third prize: Teng Li (China)
Clarinet
First prize: Sebastian Manz (Germany)
Second prize: not awarded
Third prize: Shelly Ezra (Israel)
Third prize: Taira Kaneko (Japan)
Bassoon
First prize: Marc Trénel (France)
Second prize: Christian Kunert (Germany)
Second prize: Philipp Tutzer (Italy)
Third prize: Václav Vonášek (Czech Republic)
String Quartet
First prize: Apollon Musagète Quartet (Poland)
Second prize: Afiara String Quartet (Canada)
Third prize: Gémeaux Quartett (Germany/Switzerland)
Third prize: Verus String Quartet (Japan)
Special Prizes
Audience Prizes
Contributed by the Theodor Rogler Foundation
Wen Xiao Zheng, viola
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Christian Kunert, bassoon
Gémeaux Quartett, string quartet
Special Prizes of the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Compositions
Contributed by the Alice Rosner Foundation
For the composition by Atar Arad: Dimitri Murrath, viola
For the composition by Martin Fröst: Joachim Forlani, clarinet
For the composition by Adriana Hölszky: Marc Trénel, bassoon
For the composition by Rodion Shchedrin: Apollon Musagète Quartet
Special Prize from the Munich Chamber Orchestra
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Alice Rosner Prize
Sergey Malov, viola – for the best interpretation of the Hindemith Sonata op. 11 No. 4
Stipend of Karl Klingler Foundation
Apollon Musagète Quartet
Osnabrück Music Prize
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Busch Brothers Prize
Sergey Malov, viola
Ifp Music Prize
Sebastian Manz, clarinet
Bärenreiter Original Text Prize
Lilli Maijala, viola
Marcos Pérez Miranda, clarinet
Julien Hardy, bassoon
Quartet Feruz
Special Prize from OehmsClassics
CD recording with the Apollon Musagète Quartet
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