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Carl Nielsen International Music Competition

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Carl Nielsen International Competition (Danish: Carl Nielsen Konkurrencen) is a competition for classical musicians (violin, clarinet, and flute) held in Odense, Denmark, in memory of the composer Carl Nielsen.

Overview

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The competition was established in 1980 under the patronage of Queen Margarethe of Denmark. It became a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions in 1981. Initially a violin competition, its first President was Henryk Szeryng. Later the competition added special editions for organists (since 1986), clarinetists (since 1997) and flutists (since 1998). At various times jury members included Max Rostal, Joseph Gingold, Norbert Brainin, Arve Tellefsen, Milan Vitek, Dorothy DeLay, Tibor Varga, Jean-Jacques Kantorow.

Since 2012, the organ competition is no longer part of the Carl Nielsen Competition, but is instead held as a separate competition. But the violin, clarinet and flute competitions have, after nearly four decades, established themselves as some of the most demanding and rewarding in the world, each offering winners the chance to launch a significant international career. From 2019, the Carl Nielsen International Competitions for violin, clarinet and flute will be held concurrently for the first time. Representing the 2019 competition as Artistic Advisors are three of the world's leading musicians in their fields – Nikolaj Znaider, Emmanuel Pahud and Martin Fröst.

During the 2022 edition of the competition a mentoring program called Espansiva! was held concurrently. The aim of this new program is to run alongside future editions of competition and to offer participants advice and insight during their time in Odense. During Espansiva! 2022, 10 talks were given by guest experts, soloists and musicians and 4 complementary workshops. There was opportunity for individual conversations with members of the Espansiva! team and each evening both participants and guest speakers were invited to "relax and eat together" at the aptly named Anarkist brewery located in Odense. The name Espansiva! comes from C. Nielsen's 3rd Symphony which also goes by the name Espansiva![1]

Prizes

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Current prizes

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1st Prize

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The 1st prize includes a sum of 25.000 Euro's as well as a recording deal with Orchid Classics and the Odense Symphony Orchestra with an approximate value of 13.000 Euros. The winner of this prize is also offered to appear as a soloist with top nordic orchestra's. In addition the 1st Prize winner of the Violin competition will also receive a bow made by Duncan EMCK, donated by "Ulf Eriksson Violiner".[2]

2nd Prize

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2nd Prize winner will be awarded 10.000 Euros.[2]

3rd Prize

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3rd Prize winner will be awarded 7.500 Euros[2]

Special Prizes

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Odense Symphony Orchestra Prize: 1.000 Euros awarded among the violin, Clarinet and Flute finalists. Junior Jury Prize: 1.000 Euros awarded among the violin, Clarinet and Flute finalists. Audience Prize: 1.000 Euros awarded among the violin, Clarinet and Flute finalists. Prize for best interpretation / Prize for Playing around Nielsen: 1.000 Euros awarded for the best performance of new piece commissioned for the violin competition and 1.000 Euros awarded amongst the 2nd round candidates of the Flute and the Clarinet competitions performing playing around Nielsen.[2]

Prize-winners

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Violin

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1980

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  • 1st Prize: United States Kathleen Winkler
  • 2nd Prize: Sweden Per Enoksson
  • 3rd Prize: Japan Hozumi Murata
  • 4th Prize: Romania Adriana Rosin
  • 5th Prize: Poland Grazyna Skowron
  • 6th Prize: Romania Marius Nichiteanu

1984

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  • 1st Prize: Japan Osamu Yaguchi
  • 2nd Prize: Romania Lenuta Ciulei-Atanasiu
  • 3rd Prize: Denmark Johannes Søe Hansen
  • 4th Prize: Poland Jaroslaw Zolnierczyk
  • 5th Prize: Denmark Jacob Friis
  • 6th Prize: Germany Anne Yuuko Akahoshi

1988

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  • 1st Prize: USSR Alexei Kochvanets
  • 2nd Prize: East Germany Heike Janicke
  • 3rd Prize: Japan Joji Hattori
  • 4th Prize: United States Nicole Monahan
  • 5th Prize: Iceland Sigrun Edvaldsdottir
  • 6th Prize: Poland Beata Warykiewicz

1992

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1996

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1999

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  • 1st Prize: Israel Leor Maltinski
  • 2nd Prize: Japan Saeka Matsuyama
  • 3rd Prize: Japan Mariko Inaba

2000

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  • 1st Prize: Japan Masaaki Tanokura
  • 2nd Prize: Ukraine Dmytro Tkachenko
  • 3rd Prize: Denmark Mikkel Futtrup
  • 4th Prize: Poland Mariusz Patyra

2004

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  • 1st Prize: South Korea Hyuk Joo Kwun
  • 2nd Prize: United States Erin Keefe
  • 3rd Prize: South Korea Ui-Youn Hong
  • 4th Prize: Canada Judy Kang

2008

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  • 1st Prize: Armenia Hrachya Avanesyan
  • 2nd Prize: Japan Yusuke Hayashi
  • 3rd Prize: Czech Republic Josef Spacek
  • 4th Prize: Romania Eugen Tichindeleanu

2012

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  • 1st Prize: Russia Olga Volkova
  • 2nd Prize: Denmark Niklas Walentin Jensen
  • 3rd Prize: Iceland Eva Thorarinsdottir
  • 4th Prize: South Korea Ui-Youn Hong

2016

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  • 1st Prize (shared): Bulgaria Liya Petrova [fr] and South Korea Ji Yoon Lee
  • 2nd Prize: Not awarded
  • 3rd Prize: United States Luke Hsu
  • 4th Prize (shared): South Korea Soo-Hyun Park, South Korea Ji Won Song, and Japan Karen Kido

2019

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  • 1st Prize: Sweden Johan Dalene
  • 2nd Prize: France Marie-Astrid Hulot
  • 3rd Prize: Denmark Anna Agafia Egholm

2022

  • 1st Prize (shared): Estonia Hans Christian Aavik and Ukraine Bohdan Luts
  • 2nd Prize: Not awarded
  • 3rd Prize: South Korea Eun Che Kim

Flute

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1998

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2002

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  • 1. Prize: Germany Pirmin Grehl
  • 2. Prize: Russia Denis Bouriakov
  • 3. Prize: Hungary Fruzsina Varga
  • 4. Prize: Austria Switzerland Sarah Rumer

2006

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  • 1. Prize: Russia Alexandra Grot
  • 2. Prize: Poland Lukasz Dlugosz
  • 3. Prize: ex aequo: France Marion Ralincourt and Russia Grigory Mordashov

2014

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2019

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  • 1. Prize: France Joséphine Olech
  • 2. Prize: Poland Marianna Julia Żołnacz
  • 3. Prize: Spain Rafael Adobas Bayog

2022

  • 1. Italy Alberto Navarra
  • 2. South Korea Seoyeon Kim
  • 3. Spain Alberto Acuna Almela

Clarinet

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1997

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  • 1. Prize: Greece Spyros Mourikis
  • 2. Prize: United States Igor Begelman
  • 3. Prize: Italy Carlo Failli
  • 4. Prize: Finland Anne Piirainen

2001

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  • 1. Prize: United States Alexander Fiterstein
  • 2. Prize: France Nicolas Baldeyrou
  • 3. Prize: Germany Jens Thoben
  • 4. Prize: France Sebastien Batut

2005

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  • 1. Prize: France Olivier Patey
  • 2. Prize: France Olivier Vivarès
  • 3. Prize: Norway Björn Nyman
  • 4. Prize: France Vincent Penot

2009

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  • 1. Prize: Finland Olli Leppäniemi
  • 2. Prize: France Christelle Pochet
  • 3. Prize: Austria Daniel Ottensamer
  • 4. Prize: Hungary Balazs Rumy

2013

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  • 1. Prize: Russia Sergey Eletskiy
  • 2. Prize: Denmark Mathias Kjøller
  • 3. Prize: South Korea Inn-Hyuck Cho
  • 4. Prize: France Pierre Genisson

2019

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  • 1. Prize: Slovenia Blaz Sparovec
  • 2. Prize: Italy Aron Chiesa
  • 3. Prize: Spain Víctor Díaz Guerra

2022

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  • 1. Ukraine Oleg Shebeta-Dragan
  • 2. France Ann Lepage
  • 3. Greece Panagiotis Giannakas

Organ

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1986

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  • 1. Prize: not awarded
  • 2. Prize: Denmark Jesper Madsen
  • 3. Prize: United Kingdom Kevin Bowyer

1988

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  • 1. Prize: Germany Andreas Liebig
  • 2. Prize: Japan Kayo Ohara
  • 3. Prize: Finland Anne Nietosvaara

1990

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  • 1. Prize: United Kingdom Kevin Bowyer
  • 2. Prize: Denmark Bine Katrine Bryndorf
  • 3. Prize: Japan Yuzuru Hiranaka

1992

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  • 1. Prize: Australia Christopher Wrench
  • 2. Prize: United Kingdom Stephen Farr
  • 3. Prize: Germany Christian Schmitt
  • 4. Prize: France Pascale Melis
  • 5. Prize: Germany Paul Theis

1994

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  • 1. Prize: not awarded
  • 2. Prize: Japan Rie Hiroe
  • 3. Prize - Ex Aequo: Italy Walter Savant-Levet and Russia Marina Zagorski
  • 4. Prize: Germany Stefan Kordes
  • 5. Prize: France Frédéric Desenclos

1996

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  • 1. Prize: Denmark Hanne Kuhlmann
  • 2. Prize: France Veronique le Guen
  • 3. Prize: Germany Torsten Laux
  • 4. Prize: South Korea Jin Kim
  • 5. Prize: Denmark Heinrich Christensen

1998

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  • 1. Prize: Germany Johannes Unger
  • 2. Prize: United Kingdom Teilhard Scott
  • 3. Prize: Germany Torsten Laux
  • 4. Prize: Germany Samuel Kummer
  • 5. Prize: Hungary Làszló Deàk

2000

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  • 1. Prize: not awarded
  • 2. Prize - Ex Aequo: United Kingdom Sarah Baldock and United Kingdom Charles Harrison
  • 3. Prize: Sweden Christina Blomkvist
  • 4. Prize: Germany Burkhard Just
  • 5. Prize: Hungary Hedvig Dobias

2002

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  • 1. Prize: not awarded
  • 2. Prize: Switzerland Burkhard Just
  • 3. Prize: Germany Helene von Rechenberg
  • 4. Prize: Estonia Katrin Meriloo

2004

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  • 1. Prize: United Kingdom William Whitehead
  • 2. Prize: United Kingdom Clive Driskill-Smith
  • 3. Prize - Ex Aequo: South Korea So-Hyun Park and Austria Johannes Hämmerle

2007

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  • 1. Prize: United Kingdom Henry Fairs
  • 2. Prize: Netherlands Gijs Boelen
  • 3. Prize: Denmark Daniel Bruun
  • 4. Prize: United States Ruth Draper

2011

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  • 1. Prize: Denmark Philip Schmidt-Madsen
  • 2. Prize: United Kingdom Timothy Wakerell
  • 3. Prize: Germany Simon Menges

References

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  1. ^ "Espansiva!". Carl Nilsen Competition & Odense Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prizes for Violin, Clarinet and flute Competition". Carl Nielsen Competition & Odense Symphony orchestra. Retrieved June 30, 2024.