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Prize-Giving Ceremony

Please do follow the progress of these young artists after the Song Competition and watch out here for updates on their careers.

Reviews

“Köninger is blessed with by far the most impressive natural voice: a warm, lustrous baritone, well-groomed, and with great depths and reserves of resonance. But that crucial verbal intelligence — in four languages — is there, too. And, in this competition, the jury also looks for an imaginatively and sensitively shaped programme: Köninger, together with his fine accompanist Volker Krafft, followed the dream visions of love, from Beethoven’s Adelaide, through a tiny lullaby by Falla, and on to that elusive scent of linden blossom in Mahler’s Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft. A ringing yet lyrical high register shone out of Koninger’s performance of Liszt’s Oh! quand je dors; and his impeccable English — even in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s word-spinning — impressed this audience in Vaughan Williams’s Love-sight” The Times

See also this review of the Final from musicOHM

Thomas Quasthoff presented with the Wigmore Hall Medal

On the same evening as the Final, one of the jurors, German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff was presented with the Wigmore Hall Medal at the final of the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition. Awarded at the discretion of the Director of the Hall, the medal is given in recognition of services to music and to the Hall.