Final RoundS

The finale was held in two parts (chamber music and orchestra round) on October 20th in the Large Concert Hall ("Großer Konzertsaal") of the University of Music and Theatre Munich.

PARTICIPANTS of the FINAL ROUND

On the evening of 20 October, the three finalists, Emiko Yuasa, Njord Kårason Fossnes and Carla Usberti played a very exciting, high-class and interesting final with a chamber music and an orchestral round.

The final was broadcast in full via livestream:

The jury has selected the following 3 violists for the finals:

Japanese violist Emiko Yuasa is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich studying with Hariolf Schlichtig since 2018. She earned her Bachelors degree from the Toho-Gakuen Academy of Music in Tokyo where she studied violin with Yumino Toyoda and viola with Ryo Sasaki...

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1. PRIZE
and
Audience Award

Emiko Yuasa (25)
JAPAN

Njord Kårason Fossnes (b. 2001) is a Norwegian violist currently studying Viola Performance at New England Conservatory with Professor Kim Kashkashian. He has formerly studied violin with Henning and Alf Richard Kraggerud, Bård Monsen and Anne-Berit Halvorsen and viola with Soon-Mi Chung Barratt-Due and Ida Bryhn at Barratt Due Music Institute in Oslo, Norway...

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2. PRIZE

Njord Kårason Fossnes (20)
NORWAY

Carla Usberti, born in 2001 in Landshut, is a german-french Violist. She began to play the piano at the age of 3 and the Violin at 5. In 2015, she switched to Viola.
She took part in several competitions at „Jugend musiziert“ in different categories and won in 2017 the first prize at the „Bundeswettbewerb“...

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2. PRIZE

Carla Usberti (19)
GERMANY

Alona Khlevna besuchte die Musikschule in Charkiw, Ukraine.
Dann setzte sie ihr Studium an der Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in der Klasse von Professor Fedor Belugin, dem Bratschisten des David Oistrach String Quartetts, fort...

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SPEZIAL PRIZE WALTER WITTE

Alona Khlevna (25)
UKRAINE

SCHEDULE FINALS

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021
• 4:30 – 6 pm = Final Chamber Music Round (Großer Konzertsaal)
• 7 - 8:30 pm = Final Concerto Round (Großer Konzertsaal)

Program of the Final

Each of the 3 competitors in the Final Round performed the following repertoire:

1) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
“Kegelstatt”-Trio E-flat major KV 498 (Martin Spangenberg, clarinet; Angelika Merkle, piano);
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2) Paul Hindemith:
“Kammermusik Nr. 5 für Viola und größeres Kammerorchester”
(accompanied by the orchestra of the University of Music and Theatre Munich)