Jury 2025

Photo: Harald Hoffmann

Veronika Hagen is the viola player in the famous Hagen Quartet with which she has performed over the past 40 years throughout the world...

Photo: Raymond Huang

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras in Berlin, London, Tokyo...

Photo: D. Vass

Garth Knox was born in Ireland and spent his childhood in Scotland. After studying viola at the RCM, he played with most of the leading groups in London in a mixture of all repertoires, from baroque to contemporary music....

Photo: Josep Molina

Violist and conductor Hartmut Rohde delights the audience with his tone and musical language as well as his special commitment to the respective style. Rohde is one of the leading European violists and a founding member of the Mozart Piano Quartet, with which he received the coveted OPUS Klassik Award for the first time in 2018...

Photo: Duncan Smith

Born in Newark, Delaware in the USA, Paul Pesthy’s musical education began with piano lessons at the age of six, and he was introduced to the violin by his Hungarian parents four years later...

Photo: Florian Kleinefenn

Geneviève Strosser is one of the most interesting viola players of today. As a soloist, she performs with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony , the Gewandhaus Leipzig , Ensemble Resonanz, NDR Elbphilharmonie, the Tokyo Symphony , La Verdi Milano, SWR, WDR, Residentie Orchester Den Haag, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg...

The flautist Henrik Wiese studied with Ingrid Koch-Dörnbrak and Paul Meisen. He has won prizes at the German Music Competition (1995), the international competitions in Kobe/Japan (1997), Odense/Denmark (1998) and the ARD Competition in Munich (2000)...

Sonja Stibi is is supporting the development of the new “Music Mediation” degree program and is helping to establish music mediation as a cross-sectional discipline at HMTM. Her teaching activities include moderation techniques, concert design, new concert formats for specific dialog groups, participatory music projects as well as inter-university seminars on the topic of “People.Music.Encounters”...

Photo: Miranda Longoria

Daphne Gerling is Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of North Texas, and Secretary of the American Viola Society.

Photo: Astrid Ackermann

Benedict Hames is Associate Principal Viola in BRSO...

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Louise Lansdown is a violist, educator, philanthropist and researcher...

Sharon Wei is Professor of viola at Western University...