Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition will be held in Kloster Schöntal (Baden-Württemberg), Germany, from August 26 – September 04, 2022. The competition is open to young violinists who fit in the three age categories: up to 14-years-old, 15 to 17-years-old, and 18 to 21-years-old.
The competition’s pre-selection jury — consisting of Mrs. Rebekka Hartmann, Prof. Paul Roczek, Prof. Krzysztof Wegrzyn, and Artistic Director of Competition Prof. Petru Munteanu — has selected 37 candidates who will compete in the next round. The selected young musicians are:
First Age Group:
Second Age Group:
Third Age Group:
The prize money offered is up to € 24.000. In addition, the Jury may award the Reinhold Würth Promotion Prize for further education in music (€ 5000) and an appearance as a soloist with the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra.
Previous major prize winners include VC Artists InMo Yang, Sarah Christian, Yury Revich, Igor Pikayzen, Alexander Conunova, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Rennosuke Fukuda, Ziyu He, and Ioana Christina Goicea.
Source: The Violin Channel
This year edition of the competition is part of the project B.R.A.N.D. NEW (Business, Relations, Audience, Narration, Digital for the NEW music world), which is co-funded by the European Union programme Creative Europe.
