Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize

German music award

The Mendelssohn Scholarship, awarded by the Prussian State from 1879 to 1936, was revived in 1963 by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The Foundation awards the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize once a year per competition opened to particularly talented students at one of the 23 recognised music academies in Germany.

The award is decided in a competition with two annually changing competition subjects, in which each university may nominate only one candidate or ensemble for each subject. Ensembles consisting of students from different universities may also be nominated (the universities participating in the mixed ensembles agree on which university will nominate this ensemble).

The Rektorenkonferenz der deutschen Musikhochschulen [de] appoints the members of the juries. For each competition subject, they are composed of a rector as chairman, four specialist jurors and two jurors from other disciplines.

State of Prussia

1893: Carl Thiel
1901: Alfred Wittenberg

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

1963: Klaviertrio (Cologne): Bernhard Kontarsky, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn, Thomas Bless
1965: Yuuko Shiokawa
1966: Walter Steffens
1970: Raymund Havenith
1974: Georg Faust
1977: Marioara Trifan
1978: Harald Feller
1988: Herbert Fandel
1997: Luiza Borac and Kersten McCall
1998: Erika Geldsetzer, Marion Reinhard and Toomas Vana
1999: Markus Schön and Anke Vondung
2000: Franz Kaern and Birgit Kölbl
2001: esBRASSo-Quintett and Johannes Moser
2002: Cambini-Quintett and Julia Mai
2003: Andrew Dewar and the Korea String Trio
2004: Jan Skryhan and Konstantin Wolff
2005: Kim Trio and Guilhaume Santana
2006: Julian Arp, Frederic Belli and Caspar Frantz
2007: Emilio Peroni, Pauline Reguig and Li-Chun Su
2008: Orion Quartet and Wen Xiao Zheng
2009:^[1]
2010: Duo Parthenon aus Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover
2012: Sarah Christian and Sebastian Küchler-Blessing
2013: Konstanze von Gutzeit
2014: Dennis Sörös
2015: Sara Kim
2016: Wataru Hisasue

Other prize winners (Scholarship of the Federal President)

2003: Mareile Krumbholz and Matthias Voget
2004: Falko Hönisch, Nicolas Kyriakou and Christian Peix
2005: Manfred Baumgärtner, Alpézso Trio and Julius Stern Trio
2006: Tobias Bloos, Maria Daroch, Tomasz Daroch, Nicolas Naudot and Li-Chun Su
2007: Jovana Nikolic, Marie-Claudine Papadopoulos and Alexander Schimpf
2008: Eos Klavierquartet, Barbara Buntrock and Julia Neher
Wettbewerb 2009:^[1]
- Klavierduo von der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München: Richard Humburger, Valentin Humburger
- Quartett von der Universität der Künste Berlin: Armida-Quartett (Martin Funda, Johanna Eschenburg, Teresa Schwamm, Peter-Philipp Staemmler)
2010: Duo Roudi Li (cello) and Vasyl Kotys (piano), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock
2012: Iva Miletic and Nathan Laube
2014: Sumi Hwang (singer), University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
2015: Adrien La Marca, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"
2016: So Hyang In, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich

References

^ ^a ^b
- - September Klavierduo von der Hochschule für Musik Saar: Michael Christensen, Chi-Hsien Kuan
  - Streichquartett von der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover: Almandin-Quartett (Meike Bertram, Anne Marie Harer, Karoline Markert, Katharina Kühl)
^ "Leipziger Mendelssohn-Preis". Retrieved 2 September 2020.