As well as the main prize of €10,000 the Vienna-based quartet won the €1,000 special prize for interpretation of an early classical work
The Motus Quartet from Vienna has won the first prize in the 10th International Joseph Joachim Competition for chamber music, the final of which took place on 5 April at the Franz Liszt Weimar University of Music. The ensemble, which comprises violinists Tim Pieter De Vries and Karla Križ, violist Erin Carter Pitts and cellist Domonkos Peter Hartmann, takes away the main cash prize of €10,000. In addition the group won the special prize for the best interpretation of an early classical work, worth €1,000.
Second prize and €5,000 went to the Malion Quartet, which was formed in Frankfurt am Main in 2018 and is comprised of violinists Alex Jussow and Miki Nagahara, violist Lilya Tymchyshyn and cellist Bettina Kessler; third prize and €2,500 was awarded to the Davidoff Trio (Johannes Wendel violin, Christoph Lamprecht, cello and Yona Sophia Jutzi, piano) from Mainz. Two other special prizes, worth €1,000 each, were awarded to the Paddington Trio (for best interpretation of a work composed after 1970) and Trio Sheliak (special prize for a particularly talented ensemble).
The jury was headed by violinist Anne-Kathrin Lindig and comprised violinists Annette von Hehn and Johannes Meissl, violists Hartmut Rohde and Naoko Shimizu, cellist Martin Rummel, and pianists Per Lundberg and Angelika Merkle.
The competition takes place every three years in Weimar and is open to string trios, string quartets, piano trios and piano quartets. Previous winners include the Marmen and Barbican Quartets, Trio Pantoum and Trio Bohémo.
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