2024-05-16 12:42:44
Sasaki Tsukushi from Japan gained the Prague Spring worldwide music competitors within the violin discipline, and the Chinese language horn participant Jin Ch’cheng gained within the horn class. The organizers introduced it on Tuesday night. The competitors is meant for the younger era of musicians beneath the age of 30, for which members and judges from all around the world as soon as once more flew to the metropolis.
Within the English transcription, the names of the winners are written as Sasaki Tsukushi and Zhicheng Jin. Within the violin discipline, Jan Novák took second place, and French musician Marie-Astrid Hulot got here third.
Novák was one of many fifteen violinists representing the Czech Republic, he obtained, amongst different issues, the Award of the Czech Music Fund Basis for the most effective interpretation of the piece Apprivoise-moi. Miroslav Srnka, probably the most profitable dwelling Czech composers, created this as a obligatory work for the contestants. “It is a quick piece, however full of unusual methods and sounds,” he mentioned of it. The jury’s honorable point out went to Ilva Eigus from Switzerland.
Finalists of the violin competitors, from left Ilva Eigus, Marie-Astrid Hulot, Sasaki Tsukuši and Jan Novák. | Picture: Petra Hajská
92 performers from 18 nations utilized for the violin competitors, ten of them competed for the finals. Along with Srnka’s composition, sonatas by Béla Bartók, Leoš Janáček, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johannes Brahms have been carried out. The primary three prizes have been backed within the quantities of 250,000, 150,000 and 100,000 crowns.
Along with the primary ones, awards are given by dozens of cultural establishments from the Czech Republic and overseas. The winner will get the chance to carry out on the subsequent yr’s Prague Spring.
Within the discipline of French horn, the Chinese language horn participant Jin Ch’cheng already succeeded on Monday, Nicolas Ramez from France and the Brazilian musician Santos Freitas da Silva Felipe took the opposite locations. The finalists have been anticipated to carry out the Concerto for French Horn and Strings by Othmar Schoeck and the Morceau de live performance by Camillo Saint-Saëns.
Horn competitors finalists: from left, Santos Freitas da Silva Felipe, Nicolas Ramez and Jin Zheng. | Picture: Ivan Malý
139 younger horn gamers entered the competitors, 13 of them competed for the ultimate. Achille Fait from Italy obtained the jury’s honorable point out. Within the second spherical, listeners might hear for the primary time Kryštof Marek’s composition Three Prague Footage for horn solo, additionally composed for this yr’s competitors. Hungarian horn participant Máté Harangozó takes residence the prize of the Czech Music Basis for the most effective interpretation.
In the course of the 75 years of its existence, the competitors has handed to eight,000 musicians, a lot of whom have been helped to launch their careers. “The Prague competitors has a unprecedented worldwide popularity, it is without doubt one of the most well-known multidisciplinary ones,” mentioned its director Pavel Trojan earlier than the competition. “Maybe we’re not conscious of that right here, as a result of we’re extra conscious of the single-discipline ones, for instance the Chopin piano competitors in Warsaw. Nevertheless, within the multi-discipline competitions, which give younger musicians house throughout devices, the Prague Spring actually ranks among the many world’s prime,” he added.
The Prague Spring Worldwide Music Pageant, of which the competitors is part, started on Sunday with a live performance by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who performed Bedřich Smetana’s My Homeland beneath the baton of Kirill Petrenko. This yr’s 79th version of the occasion affords 5 dozen live shows. On the ultimate night on June 3, the Czech Philharmonic carried out by David Robertson may even carry out the composition Superorganisms, composed by Miroslav Srnka.