Carl Nielsen International Competition

02/06/2022

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...

20/05/2022

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

11/04/2022

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

10/04/2022

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!

10/04/2022

Picture of all The Finalists!

Prize Ceremony in about 10 min 💫

Follow it live through our website!

📸 Morten Kjærgaard

10/04/2022

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).

10/04/2022

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!

09/04/2022

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

09/04/2022

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

09/04/2022

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

08/04/2022

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!

08/04/2022

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 🎶

08/04/2022

Pictures of before and after The Violin Semifinals 📸

Prefinals tonight at 19:30. Follow it through the stream (via our website)




📸 Morten Kjærgaard

08/04/2022

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

08/04/2022

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

07/04/2022

Check this out 💫🎙🎶

07/04/2022

Moments from the Violin Semifinals yesterday 💫

Tune in tomorrow at 19:30 UTC+2




📸 Morten Kjærgaard

07/04/2022

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 🤞 🎻 🎶

06/04/2022

[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

06/04/2022

Before and after pictures of the Flute Semifinalists — Can you tell which one is which?

Finals 9th April 🎶

📸 Morten Kjærgaard

05/04/2022

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

05/04/2022

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

05/04/2022

Moments from the Violin 2nd Round Yesterday 🎶

Follow the Semifinals 6th April on the livestream: https://carlnielsencompetition.com

05/04/2022

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.

04/04/2022

[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

04/04/2022

[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

04/04/2022

Flute 2nd Round Results

04/04/2022

Some moments from yesterday 🎶

Violin Semifinalists will be announced later tonight!



📸 Jacob Kristensen

04/04/2022

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