Kreutzer International Music Competition

20/08/2024

Many thanks to The Violin Channel for the attention to our competition! 🙏

On the photo Jieun Son, 1st prize winner of the violin category C.

Jieun Son of South Korea won the senior solo violin category.

18/08/2024

Thank you The Strad for the attention to our competition! 🎻

South Korean violinist Jieun Son wins the €1,000 first prize in the senior solo violin category

16/08/2024

You will now find the names of the prize winners of this 2024 edition on our website. Congratulations once again to all of them! 🎉

10/08/2024

📣And here are the results of the Final Round of the Chamber Music Category B :

🥇1st prize not awarded
🥈2nd prize Freytag Trio, 🇩🇪 Germany
🥈2nd prize Duo Baron-Fleury, 🇫🇷 France
🥉3rd prize Duo Marni, 🇫🇷 France

Congratulations to everyone! 👏

10/08/2024

📣On the last day of the competition our chamber music groups went on the stage of the MIRY Concertzaal. Here are the results of the Final Round of the Category A :

🥇1st prize Duo Bernadel, 🇩🇪 Germany
🥈2nd prize Mofi Sisters, 🇺🇸 USA
🥉3rd prize Golden Strings, 🇨🇳 China

Congratulations to everyone! 👏

09/08/2024

📣And finally the results of the Final round of our Violin Category C :

🥇1st prize Jieun Son, 🇰🇷 South Korea
🥈2nd prize Sunjae Ok, 🇰🇷 South Korea
🥉3rd prize Petre Abraham Smeu, 🇷🇴 Romania

Bravo to all the finalists for your fantastic performances!👏

09/08/2024

Meet A***n Sadrayi, young talented composer and student of KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent who composed for our competition "Duette" for violin and piano. Our finalists from the Violin Category C are performing it today.

Born in Iran on 1996, I started learning music at the age of 8 and switched to Violin when I was 11. Even though I was a professional violinist and violist for more than a decade in orchestras and ensembles in Iran and Austria, I was always captivated by making music and finally decided to turn my life around and study composition full-time in Belgium in 2021.
My father’s passion for traditional Iranian music and love for Hafiz, my mother’s massive cassette archive of Karajan recordings and orchestration books, my older brother’s flamenco guitar playing and gouache painting, combined with my pre-teen self sneaking Metallica and Eminem into our home audio system, all contributed to my artistic upbringing in this wonderfully strange amalgam of genres and practices.

My piece “Duette for Violin and Piano” written for the Kreutzer International Music Competition 2024, is a reflection on my past career as a violinist, and acts as a sort of a melting-pot of my favourite sounds for violin and piano. I intended for the piece to be fun for the performers to play, and attempt to give the audience an earworm to bring home with them.

08/08/2024

📣This afternoon we continued with the Final round of the Violin Category B. Congratulations to the prize winners :

🥇1st prize Youngwoo Choi, 🇰🇷 South Korea
🥈2nd prize Elisabeth Pihusch, 🇩🇪 Germany
🥉3rd prize Mark Lev Krajnc, 🇸🇮 Slovenia

Bravo to all the finalists!👏

08/08/2024

📣Today our youngest participants performed on the stage of the MIRY Concertzaal. Congratulations to the prize winners of the Violin Category A :

🥇1st prize Yibo Wen, 🇨🇳 China
🥈2nd prize Pranciskus Kurauskas, 🇱🇹 Lithuania
🥉3rd prize Sara Kazama, 🇯🇵 Japan
🥉3rd prize Felix Zeng, 🇺🇸 USA

Bravo to all the finalists! 👏

07/08/2024

📣Today we heard some fantastic performances at the Violin Category C. Here are the names of the finalists :

Priori Leonardo
Son Jieun
Cheung Ian
Ok Sunjae
Smeu Petre Abraham
Soyoung Park

Congratulations to all the semi-finalists 👏

06/08/2024

📣After a long day of auditions, here are the finalists of the Violin Category B :

Choi Youngwoo
Pihusch Elisabeth
Gomez Pineiro Anxo
Krajnc Mark Lev
Gühring Elisabeth
Cheng Wang Hoi Jacob

Huge congratulations and bravo to all the semi finalists 👏

06/08/2024

Everything is ready for the 1st day of the competition.

05/08/2024

The first 🎻 candidates arrived to Ghent! Excitement is in the air.

MIRY ConcertzaalKASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent

04/08/2024

📣Just a couple of days before we open the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer Competition we would like to invite you to the online concert of the winners of our 2021 edition. Tune to our YouTube channel tonight at 19h00 (central Europe time) to admire these amazing artists.
We thank our prize winners for participating in this event! 👏

Marie Scheffel, Germany - Third Prize/Violin Category AJohannes Brahms - Scherzo in C Minor from "F-A-E Sonata" Cecilia Arnau Toran, Spain - Second Prize/Vio...

29/07/2024

🎹Meet the official pianists of the competition. Thanks to them our candidates will be able to show their talent and skills on the stage of the MIRY Concertzaal👏

Unfortunately pianist Artur Burmistrov won’t be able to be with us next week due to family reasons.

26/07/2024

🤝We would like to introduce the renown violin maker Zhaojun Liu who is kindly offering one of his violins as a special prize among all violin categories.

Zhaojun Liu is a member of the American Violin Makers Association and a director of the Chinese Violin Makers Association. His instruments have won multiple international awards.

We thank Mr.Zhaojun Liu for his generous support! 🙏

14/07/2024

🤝We are thrilled to announce that the famous Larsen Strings sponsor our 3rd prize winner of the violin Category A by offering their fantastic “Il Cannone” violin strings.

Larsen strings develop and produce strings of exceptional quality for violin, viola and cello. Their strings, used by top artists all over the world, are crafted to enhance musical expression and performance.

🙏We are very grateful to Larsen Strings for their kind support! 🎻

04/07/2024

🤝The Kreutzer International Music Competition is delighted to extend the collaboration with two fine string instruments shops : Maison Du Violon and Vivatas Sia. They kindly sponsor the 1st prize winner of the violin category A by offering a fine violin bow made in the famous workshop of Pierre Guillaume in Brussels.
Make sure to pay a visit to Maison Du Violon if you are in Liege (Belgium) and Vivatas Sia if you are in Riga (Latvia). You will be amazed by the choice of fine instruments and bows, strings, accessories and services.

20/04/2024

🤝It’s time to present our partners. We would like to thank all of the National Lottery’s Nationale Loterij / Loterie Nationale players. Thanks to them, Ars Nova International Music Society can offer you the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer International Music Competition🙏

16/04/2024

🎻📣We are extremely happy to announce the names of the semi-finalists/finalists of the 2nd Kreutzer International Music Competition. This year we received a great number of applications from 28 countries. We are thrilled with the high level of the candidate's performances. We would like to thank all candidates for your participation in the preselection round and wish you best of luck in the future!

See you in August at the beautiful MIRY Concertzaal and KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent in Ghent 🇧🇪

25/03/2024

Dear future candidates! Don’t forget that the deadline for your applications is the 1st of April. You have exactly 1 week to submit your application forms and send us your recordings. Please read carefully our rules concerning the video recordings and register on time. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We are looking forward to hear your performances!

https://www.kreutzercompetition.com

23/03/2024

As it was after our 1st edition 3 years ago, Ars Nova IMS organising a summer masterclass which will take place from the 11th to 16th of August in the beautiful city of Malmedy and its surroundings. Our exceptional teachers team will provide individual piano, violin, viola and cello lessons, chamber music and orchestra. Please visit our website section “Masterclass” for the details.

We are thrilled to present to you our masterclass which will take place from the 11th to 16th of August, right after the end of the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer competition. This year we invite the participants to the beautiful city of Malmedy and its surroundings.

02/03/2024

Dear future candidates,

As the director of the Kreutzer International Music Competition, I am delighted to extend a warm welcome to all of you!

The deadline (1st of April) for submitting your applications is approaching and you have exactly 1 month to register and send us your recordings! The purpose of our competition is to motivate you to reach new heights and provide you with the opportunity to show your talent on the stage of fantastic Miry Concert Hall.

Music knows no boundaries, and we are looking forward to listen to your wonderful performances and to share the charm and passion of music. Let us create together an unforgettable musical journey on the stage of the Kreutzer competition.

If you have any questions or need help, please feel free to contact us. I wish you great success at the competition!

Jing Han

21/01/2024

We are waiting for you in Ghent!

13/01/2024

Meet our exceptional jury team for the 2024 edition.

04/11/2023

The Miry concert hall MIRY Concertzaal is the place where the participants of the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer International Competition will show their talent and skills. Perfect place to make music.
Photo credit: Jordi Coppers.

21/10/2023

The beautiful city of Gent, Belgium will host in August 2024 the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer International Competition. Come and get inspired from its unique historical center.

08/10/2023

Meet our new artistic director David Makhmudov - violinist! David took on this role a year ago and the first result of our collaboration is bringing the Kreutzer International Competition to the beautiful city of Ghent and the MIRY Concertzaal. We are looking forward to the future collaboration!

The creative activity of David Makhmudov is rich and multifaceted. For many years he has been combining solo concert activity, work in the orchestra and pedagogy. Since 2017, David has been a soloist within the Flanders Symphony Orchestra, with which he plays over 60 concerts annually in Belgium and throughout Europe.

David Makhmudov is a passionate teacher. Since 2012, he has been teaching violin at the Tchaikovsky School of Music in Brussels. In September 2022 David creates his own Violin Studio in Brussels where he prepares young violinists for international competitions and superior musical studies. David Makhmudov continues the traditions of the famous Russian violin school, in particular of Yuri Yankelevich and Irina Bochkova, whose experience he adopted as a student at the Moscow Conservatory. David sees the basis of his teaching method as an individual approach to the artistic and technical development of the student.

Since 2019, David Makhmudov is teaching at the International Music Academy in Dinant. He has served as a jury member at the Omartis International Arts Competition in Singapore and Kreutzer International Music Competition in Belgium.

Intensive concert activity has taken David Makhmudov to many countries of the world, including Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, England, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, Turkey and Singapore.

As a soloist, David Makhmudov has performed with symphony orchestras such as the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory, the Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra, the Tambov Symphony Orchestra, and the Lipetsk City Symphony Orchestra.
The musician appeared on the stages of such prestigious halls as the Great and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, the Flagey in Brussels, the Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Liège Philharmonic Hall, the Imperial Theater in Compiegne, and the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore.

David Makhmudov collaborates with many outstanding conductors and performers, including Vladimir Verbitsky, Anatoly Levin, Valentin Uryupin, Georges-Elie Octors, Patrick Baton, Filip Rathé, Sébastien Walnier, Nicolas Dupont, François Deppe, Jean-Pierre Peuvion, Sun Zhen, Lyubov Plichko, Nikolay Ageev, Peter Petrov, Gabriel Teclu, Vincent Royer, Séverine Ballon, Alessandro Cervino, William Sheller.

David Makhmudov was born in 1985 in Lipetsk. He graduated with honors from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and then did his master and postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatories of Liège and Ghent (Belgium). At different times, his teachers were Irina Bochkova, Karen Aroutiounian, Alessandro Moccia, Vadim Zaichenko and Vadim Vandishev. David Makhmudov is the prizewinner of many national and international competitions, including the International Violin Competition "Virtuosos of the 21st Century" (Moscow, Russia), Dmitri Shostakovich Moscow Chamber Music Competition, the International Henri Koch Violin Competition (Liège, Belgium) and Marie Cantagrill International Violin Competition (Saint-Lizier, France). He also won the Gold Medal at the Delphic Games of Russia (Ryazan, Russia).

17/06/2023

We are thrilled to announce that the 2nd edition of the Kreutzer International Music Competition will take place live in the magnificent MIRY Concertzaal and KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent between the 6th and 10th of August 2024!
You can find all the information on our updated website. Looking forward to welcome young talents from all over the world in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium!

The 2nd edition of Kreutzer International Music Competition will take place from 6th to 10th of August 2024 in Miry Concert Hall and Ghent Royal Conservatory, Belgium. The competition is open to young violinists and string chamber music groups from all around the world.

14/06/2023

Dear followers! Big announcement coming soon. Visit our page and stay tuned!