The Carl Nielsen International Competition 2022 gives 72 young violinists, clarinetists and flutists under the age of 30 a chance of an international career.
The competition is held in the hometown of Carl Nielsen, Denmarks most prominent composer. International music competition held every third year. Next competition will take place 31 March - 10 April 2022. Deadline for applying is 30 October 2021. (For the organ competition, please contact Danish National Academy of Music, SDMK, e-mail [email protected], phone +45 63 11 99 00).
Congratulations to Sébastian Jacot on being appointed principal flute in Berliner Philharmoniker 🤩🤩
Some of you might remember him as the 1st Prize Winner of Carl Nielsen Competition 2014!
https://slippedisc.com/2022/05/exclusive-berlin-philharmonic-appoints-principal-flute/
The audition for principal flute of the Berlin...
How time flies! Almost two months have passed since the last round of this years competition . Luckily The Strad has written an article that perfectly captures the atmostphere in Odense ✨✨✨
Read it here:
https://www.thestrad.com/for-subscribers/that-festival-feeling-postcard-from-odense/14867.article
The Strad
Davina Shum reports on the violin final of the Carl Nielsen International Competition in Denmark, an event that encourages a unique sense of collaboration and support between competitors
More photos from the Prize Ceremony yesterday ✨
LIST OF ALL PRIZE WINNERS
CLARINET
1st Prize: Oleg Shebeta-Dragan
2nd Prize: Ann Lepage
3rd Prize: Panagiotis Giannakas
FLUTE
1st Prize: Alberto Navarra
2nd Prize: Seohyeon Kim
3rd Prize: Alberto Acuna Almela
VIOLIN
1st Prize: Hans Christian Aavik & Bohdan Luts
3rd Prize: Eun Che Kim
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The Prize for Best Interpretation of a piece commissioned for the violin competitiON was awarded to Hans Christian Aavik for his performance of Jesper Koch’s “Maze”.
The Prize for “Playing Around Nielsen” was awarded to Jonathan Leibovitz (clarinet) and Violeta de los Angeles Gil Garcia (flute).
A Special Prize was awarded to Gerbrich Meijer (clarinet), offering a trip to the Buffet Crampon factory to choose and bring home a brand new clarinet, developed by Buffet Crampon and donated by Buffet Crampon and the Martin Fröst Foundation.
Additional prizes includes the Odense Symphony Orchestra Prize awarded to Hans Christian Aavik (violin), Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet) and Seohyon Kim (flute) and the Junior Jury Prize awarded to Bohdan Luts (violin), Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (clarinet) and Seohyon Kim (flute).
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
WINNERS OF THE CARL NIELSEN COMPETITION 2022 🏆
Bohdan Luts & Hans Christian Aavik (Violin, split 1st Prize)
Alberto Navarra (Flute 1st Prize)
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan (Clarinet 1st Prize)
Congratulations to everyone!
Picture of all The Finalists!
Prize Ceremony in about 10 min 💫
Follow it live through our website!
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
Back then and now!
1992: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
1998: Karl-Heinz Schütz
2005: Olivier Patey
From where they all won 1st Prize in the Carl Nielsen Competition to now (jury members and competition president).
Charity concert for Ukraine 🇺🇦 🤍
Donate to Red Cross via Mobilepay to 38 40 9
Thank you to all the musicians and audience for your support!
Thank you to Copenhagen Phil for the wonderful concert yesterday 🎶
Today we will have the Clarinet and Flute Final (15:00 and 19:30)
Livestream through our website!
Copenhagen Phil - hele Sjællands Symfoniorkester
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
BIG NEWS FOR THE CLARINET COMPETITION: SPECIAL PRIZE
One of the 22 contestants in the clarinet competition will be offered a trip to the Buffet Crampon factory to choose and bring home a brand new clarinet, developed by Buffet Crampon and donated by Buffet Crampon and the Martin Fröst Foundation.
Who will be the lucky one? 🍀
Clarinet Final concert today 9 April, 15.00-17.00 CET
Prize Ceremony tomorrow 10 April, 18.00-19.15 CET
Photo credit: Denis Gliksman
More info and links in comments
For this year's Carl Nielsen International Competition there will be a benefit concert for Ukraine on the last day of the competition.
Benefit Concert for Ukraine
Sunday 10 April 2022, 10.30, Pro Musica Hall
Performing artists: Martin Fröst, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Albena Danailova, Rafaell Altino, Mathias Beyer-Karlshoj
The concert is arranged in collaboration with Red Cross/Røde Kors Odense. Donations to Røde Kors Odense are possible via mobilePay 38409 (mobile payment system for Danish phone numbers only).
https://odensesymfoni.dk/koncerter/stoettekoncert-for-ukraine/
STØTTEKONCERT FOR UKRAINE (UDSOLGT) Solister: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Martin Fröst og Karl-Heinz Schütz m.fl.. W.A. Mozart: Fløjtekvartet i D-dur J. Brahms: Klarinetkvintet I samarbejde med Røde Kors, Odense
Introducing the Junior Jury!
As from tonight at the Pre-Final for Violin the Junior Jury will join the juries. The young students come from Vestfyns Gymnasium just outside of Odense, and they have all chosen music as a special topic for their high school diploma.
Thank you for joining us 🎶
Tune in for the finals tonight, tomorrow and Sunday!
What makes the Carl Nielsen Competition special?
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (Competition President) is here to tell you why!
Tune in for The Violin Prefinal tonight 🎶
Pictures of before and after The Violin Semifinals 📸
Prefinals tonight at 19:30. Follow it through the stream (via our website)
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
Thank you to Harald Haugaard & The Band for a wonderful concert at Anarkist yesterday ⭐️
Catchy tunes based on melodies by Carl Nielsen 🎶 What is not to love?
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
From our Espansiva-talk yesterday! (“Attacking the Beast of Social Media – Friend or Foe?”)
Thank you to Annabelle Walshe (Decca Classics) Geoffrey John Davies (The Violin Channel), moderated by Matthew Trusler.
Two more talks happening today at Anarkist!
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
Check this out 💫🎙🎶
Moments from the Violin Semifinals yesterday 💫
Tune in tomorrow at 19:30 UTC+2
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
Did you know that the winner of the Violin competition does also win this Special Carl Nielsen Competition 2022 Limited Edition bow, made by Violin maker Duncan Emck in cooperation with Ulf Eriksson Violins?
This bow is one of a kind, and besides its very high quality, it comes with some beautiful handcrafted details that will forever remind the lucky winner of this competition.
Engraved into the bow is CNIC 2022
(Carl Nielsen International Competition 2022)
Good luck 🤞 🎻 🎶
![[Violin Final Results]The Jury of The Violin Competition has announced the 3 Participants voted to proceed to The Prefin...](https://img4.medioq.com/355/831/10158841373558315.jpg)
[Violin Final Results]
The Jury of The Violin Competition has announced the 3 Participants voted to proceed to The Prefinal 8th
Congratulations to the Finalists!
Finals will be streamed: https://carlnielsencompetition.com
Before and after pictures of the Flute Semifinalists — Can you tell which one is which?
Finals 9th April 🎶
📸 Morten Kjærgaard
Congratulations to the three participants who have been voted through to the flute finals on Saturday 9 April:
Alberto Acuna Almela
Seohyeon Kim
Alberto Navarra
One of the participants voted to go through to the Finals of the Clarinet Competition, has decided to withdraw due to personal reasons.
The 3 participants who will perform at the Finals are:
Panagiotis Giannakas
Ann Lepage
Oleg Shebeta-Dragan
Moments from the Violin 2nd Round Yesterday 🎶
Follow the Semifinals 6th April on the livestream: https://carlnielsencompetition.com
Thank you for a lovely day yesterday!
We had two Espansiva-talks at Anarkist - Beer & Food Lab — where we also eat dinner and relax in the evening!
Today we will continue with Espansiva!
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Baiba Skride (moderated by Jacob Soelberg) will talk about “The C21 Violinist” — their own career path and the ever changing music scene.
![[Flute 2nd Round Results]The Jury of The Flute Competition has announced the 6 Participants voted to proceed to Semifina...](https://img4.medioq.com/209/331/10158838102093315.jpg)
[Flute 2nd Round Results]
The Jury of The Flute Competition has announced the 6 Participants voted to proceed to Semifinals on 5th April.
Alberto Acuna Almela
Violeta Gil Garcia
Seohyeon Kim
Alberto Navarra
Nikolai Song
Yuan Yu
Congratulations to the 6 Semifinalists!
Semifinals will be streamed: https://carlnielsencompetition.com
![[Violin 2nd Round Results]The Jury of The Violin Competition has announced the 6 Participants voted to proceed to Semifi...](https://img4.medioq.com/930/831/10158838059308315.jpg)
[Violin 2nd Round Results]
The Jury of The Violin Competition has announced the 6 Participants voted to proceed to Semifinals on 6th April.
Hans Christian Aavik
Ava Bahari
Lorenz Karls
Eun Che Kim
Bohdan Luts
Sarah Jégou-Sageman
Congratulations to the 6 Semifinalists!
Semifinals will be streamed: https://carlnielsencompetition.com
Flute 2nd Round Results
Some moments from yesterday 🎶
Violin Semifinalists will be announced later tonight!
📸 Jacob Kristensen
Yesterday we had the first Espansiva-talk (“Focus on Woodwind”) 🎙
We will continue today at 16:00 — “Building your story” w Paavo Järvi (video), Lucy Maxwell-Stewart, Kathryn Enticott and moderated by James Jolly
Later again at 21:00 — “Setbacks to Success” w Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Kathryn Enticott and Mark Williams.
See you there!
📸 Jacob Kristensen
Odense
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