The ARD International Music Competition is the biggest international competition in Germany for classical music. It takes place once each year in Munich, Germany. Competition is the act of striving against another force for the purpose of achieving dominance or attaining a reward or goal, or out of a biological imperative such as survival. ... Munich (German: , pronounced  ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga [1]) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ...

In 1952 the ARD International Music Competition took place in Munich for the first time and has evolved into one of the world’s most well known music competitions. It was started by the broadcasting corporations of what was once known as the Federal Republic of Germany. It is run under the backling of the Bayerischer Rundfunk and takes place usually in September. Winning a prize at this ARD International Music Competition has been a enourmous aid for internationally famous artists such as Jessye Norman, Francisco Araiza, Natalia Gutman, Christoph Eschenbach, Mitsuko Uchida, Thomas Quasthoff, Yuri Bashmet, Christian Tetzlaff, Sharon Kam, Heinz Holliger, Isabelle Moretti, Peter Sadlo, and Maurice André, to name just a few. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Munich (German: , pronounced  ; Austro-Bavarian: Minga [1]) is the capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... Map of the nine regional broadcasting members of Germanys ARD radio/TV network. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Mexican tenor, Francisco Araiza, belongs to the leading tenors of his time. ... Natalia Gutman is a cellist. ... Christoph Eschenbach (born February 20, 1940 in Breslau, Germany (today WrocÅ‚aw, Poland) is a noted pianist and conductor. ... Mitsuko Uchida is a pianist born in Japan in 1952. ... The German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff (born November 9, 1959) is generally regarded as one of the finest lieder singers of his generation. ... Yuri Bashmet is probably the most prominent viola soloist of the day. ... Christian Tetzlaff, (born 1966 in Hamburg, is a noted young German violinist much in demand as a soloist with major orchestras of the world and praised for his recordings, including recent Beethoven works perfomed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman. ... Heinz Holliger (born May 21, 1939) is a Swiss oboist and composer. ... Maurice André (born May 21, 1933) is a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field. ...

It is not so well known but the ARD International Music Competition started even earlier. Between 1947 and 1950 the Frankfurter Rundfunk assisted this “Young Soloists Competition”. The earliest competition discovered two female vocalists who would soon take their place among the international talented: Christa Ludwig and Erika Köth. Instrumentalists included the flautist Karl-Heinz Zöller and the pianist Robert Alexander Bohnke. This newly founded ARD continued the concept of bringing together talented young musicians from the entire globe. 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Christa Ludwig (born March 16, German mezzo_soprano, known both for her opera performances and her singing of Lieder. ... A flautist demonstrates flute-playing technique A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays the flute. ... Karlheinz Zöller, German flutist, and principal in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1969-1973 and 1975-1993. ... ARD may refer to: ARD (broadcaster), the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the German association of public broadcasters. ... A musician is a person who plays or composes music. ...

The first ARD International Music Competition took place in 1952. What makes this competition so unique is that the categories alter from year to year to include, solo instruments, as well as voice and chamber ensembles. The importance of including modern music has been very promenent; Contemporary composers have regularly been commissioned to write new pieces for this Competition ever since the year 2001. A Feature that again distinguishes the ARD International Music Competition from others is that it not only stimulates competition among the many musicians but also serves the musical citizens a centre where musicians can meet. In predicate logic and technical fields that depend on it, uniqueness quantification, or unique existential quantification, is an attempt to formalise the notion of something being true for exactly one thing, or exactly one thing of a certain type. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Anywhere from 350 to 450 young musicians apply each year to compete. Some 200 candidates coming from anywhere from 35 to 40 countries make it past the preliminary first round. The large percentage of competitors come from contries other than Germany (up to 86%) and this provides the highest levels of competition.

Since 2001 Christoph Poppen, the well- known and admired Chief Conductor of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, has been Artistic Director of the ARD International Music Competition. Ingeborg Krause took over the task of organising the competition that same year, after serving 35 years as the head of another famous German competition called the “Jugend musiziert”. The artistic director of a theatre is responsible for choosing the material staged in a season, and the hiring of creative/production personnel (such as directors), as well as other theatre management tasks. ...

During the year 2007 the ARD International Music Competition will be in September for the categories of cello, violin, horn and four handed piano. The of original compositions by Johannes Maria Staud, Søren Nils Eichberg, Jörg Widmann and Maricio Kagel will be required to be played. Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. ... The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ... The horn (popularly known also as the French horn) is a brass instrument decended from the natural horn that consists of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... Søren Nils Eichberg (born 1973) is a German/Danish composer. ...

Winners of past competitions

2006

• Voice/Opera
  • 1st Prize: Jun Mo Yang, Korea
  • 2nd Prize: Joshua Hopkins, Canada
  • 3rd Prize: Ilse Eerens, Belgium
  • 3rd Prize: Anna Kasyan, Georgia

• Voice/Lied
  • 2nd Prize: Roxana Constantinescu, Rumania
  • 2nd Prize: Carolina Ullrich, Chile / Germany
  • 3rd Prize: Colin Balzer, Canada
  • 3rd Prize: Peter Schöne, Germany

• Piano
  • 1st Prize: Ben Kim, USA
  • 2nd Prize: Hisako Kawamura, Japan
  • 2nd Prize: Marianna Shirinyan, Armenia

• Wind Quintet
  • 1st Prize: Quintette Aquilon, France
  • 2nd Prize: Quintett Chantily, Germany / Hungary / Russia / Finland
  • 3rd Prize: Weimarer Bläserquintett, Germany

2005

• Violin
  • 1st Prize: Keisuke Okasaki, Japan
  • 2nd Prize: Akiko Yamada, Japan
  • 3rd Prize: Katja Lämmermann, Germany

• Cello
  • 1st Prize: Jing Zhao, China
  • 2nd Prize: Alexander Bouzlov, Russia
  • 3rd Prize: Alexander Chaushian, Armenia/GB

• French Horn
  • 1st Prize: Szabolcs Zempléní, Hungary
  • 2nd Prize: Louis-Philippe Marsolais, Canada
  • 2nd Prize: Renate Hupka, Germany
  • 3rd Prize: Christoph Eß, Germany

• Piano Duo
  • 2nd Prize: Victor y Luis del Valle, Spain
  • 2nd Prize: Piano Duo Poskute - Daukantas, Lithuania
  • 3rd Prize: Silivanova - Puryzhinskiy, Russia

2004

• Viola
  • 1st Prize: Antoine Tamestit, France
  • 2nd Prize: Ryszard Groblewski, Poland
  • 3rd Prize: Tomoko Akasaka, Japan

• Flute
  • 1st Prize: Magali Mosnier, France
  • 2nd Preis: Pirmin Grehl, Germany
  • 3rd Preis: Andrea Oliva, Italy

• String Quartet
  • 1st Prize: Quatuor Ébène, Frankreich
  • 2nd Prize: Faust Quartett, Germany
  • 3rd Prize: Quatuor Benaïm, Israel/France

• Harp
  • 1st Prize: Anton Sie, Netherlands
  • 2nd Prize: Nabila Chajai, France
  • 3rd Prize: Mirjam Schröder, Germany

2003

• Voice (female)
  • 1st Prize: Marina Prudenskaja, Russia
  • 2nd Prizes: Andrea Lauren Brown, USA

Measha Brüggergosman, Canada

• • 3rd Prize: Julia Sukmanova, Russia

• Voice (male)
  • 1st Prize: Gérard Kim, Korea
  • 3rd Prizee: Tyler Duncan, Canada

Günter Papendell, Germany

• Double Bass
  • 1st Prize: Nabil Shehata, Germany
  • 2nd Prize: Roman Patkoló, Slowakia
  • 3rd Prize: Ödön Rácz, Hungary

• Clarinet
  • 2nd Prize: Olivier Patey, France
  • 3rd Prize: Florent Pujuila, France

• Trumpet
  • 1st Prize: David Guerrier, France
  • 2nd Prize: Giuliano Sommerhalder, Germany
  • 3rd Prizes: Gabor Richter, Hungary

Guillaume Couloumy, France

2002

• Bassoon
  • 2nd Prize: Matthias Rácz, Germany
  • 3rd Prizes: Jaakko Luoma, Finland

Lyndon Watts, Australia

• Oboe
  • 3rd Prizes: Nora Cismondi, France

Alexandre Gattet, France

Keiko Inoue, Japan

• Piano
  • 1st Prize: Denys Proshayev, Ukrain
  • 2nd Prize: Ferenc Vizi, Rumania
  • 3rd Prize: Chiao-Ying Chang, Taiwan

• Pianotrio
  • 2nd Prizes: Trio con Brio, Korea/Denmark

Trio Ondine, Sweden/Denmark/Norway

2001

• Violin
  • 2nd prize: Annette von Hehn, Germany
  • 3rd prize: MinJung Kang, Korea

Yamei Yu, Germany

• Violoncello
  • 1st prize: Danjulo Ishizaka, Germany
  • 2nd prize: Julie Albers, USA

Monika Leskovar, Croatia

• • 3rd prize: Thomas Carroll, Great Britain

• Saxophone
  • 2nd prize: Alexandre Doisy, France
  • 3rd prize: Lutz Koppetsch, Germany

Julien Petit, France

• Percussion
  • 1st prize: Marta Klimasara, Poland
  • 2nd prize: Eirik Raude, Norway
  • 3rd prize: Christophe Roldan, France

• Wind Quintet
  • 1st prize: Miró Ensemble, Spain
  • 2nd prize: Orsolino Quintett, Germany/Austria
  • 3rd prize: St. Petersburg Woodwind Quintet, Russia

2000

• Voice (female singer)
  • 1st prize: Zoryana Kushpler, Ukraine
  • 3rd prizes: Stefanie Krahnenfeld, Germany

Christa Mayer, Germany

• Voice (male singer)
  • 1st prize: Konrad Jarnot, Great Britain
  • 2nd prize: Nathaniel Webster, USA
  • 3rd prize: Friedemann Röhlig, Germany

• Viola
  • 2nd prize: Danuta Waskiewicz, Germany

• Flute
  • 2nd prizes: Rozàlia Szabó, Hungary

Henrik Wiese, Germany

• • 3rd prize: Kersten McCall, Germany

• Piano Duo
  • 1st prize: Mati Mikalai / Kai Ratassepp, Estonia
  • 2nd prize: Duo d'Accord, Taiwan / Germany

• String Quartett
  • 2nd prize: Avalon String Quartett, France/ Canada/ USA
  • 3rd prize: Quartetto Prometeo, Italy

1999

• Piano
  • 2nd prizes: Severin von Eckardstein, Germany

Oliver Kern, Germany

• Violin
  • 2nd prize: Bin Huang, V.R. China
  • 3rd prizes: Andrei Bielov, Ukraine

Francesco Manara, Italy

• Horn
  • 2nd prizes: Alessio Allegrini, Italy

László Seemann, Hungary

• • 3rd prize: Sibylle Mahni, Switzerland
• Organ
  • 2nd prize: Martin Kaleschke, Germany

External Links

ARD Competition