There are five wonders of the bow that Sunday at 3pm in the Arvedi Auditorium they will compete for victory at the Città di Cremona Competition, the international violin performance prize promoted by the Violin Museum and the Arvedi Buschini Foundation.
These are their names, in strictly alphabetical order: Nurie Chung (19 years old, South Korea), Kokoro Imagawa (25 years old, Japan), Hinano Ogihara (17 years old, Japan), Yuki Serino (18 years old, Italy/Japan), Shaoheng Zhong (15 years old, China).
This was decided by the jury chaired by Sergej Krylov and composed of renowned masters such as Pierre Amoyal, Ksenia Milas, Alessandro Quarta, Massimo Quarta, Oleksandr Semchuk, Kyoko Takezawa, Anna Tifu, Kirill Troussov.
The verdict came at the end of the second spectacular test in which the competitors presented a demanding chamber music program accompanied on the piano by the very talented Roberto Arosio and Monica Cattarossi. Three violinists who did not pass the test, despite having demonstrated a very high level of preparation: Alexander Goldberg, Elias David Moncado and Aoi Saito.
They played it out over the course of two days in which they performed real concert programs including masterpieces from the classical and romantic repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, sonatas from the historical twentieth century by authors such as Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Poulenc, pieces of great virtuosity by Paganini, Kreisler, Ernst.
The most significant news is that the orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, will enter the field in the final and, under the direction of Krylov himself, will support the candidates in the most demanding test.
In this case the repertoire ranges from Violin concertos by Mozart, Haydn and Mendelssohn to bravura pieces by Saint-Saens and Pablo de Sarasate.
The finalists will rehearse tomorrow (Saturday) from 10am to 12.30pm and from 3pm to 6.30pm in the Auditorium with the orchestra and the rehearsals are open to the public, as it is open, with free entry (until seats last). ) the final on Sunday, at the end of which the winners will be awarded.
The cash prizes are important: 40 thousand euros for the first, 20 thousand for the second, 10 thousand for the third. Furthermore, several special prizes, including a gold-mounted bow from the Slaviero atelier and the possibility of playing in the next edition of STRADIVARIfestival.
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