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Prizes

 

Development Prizes

First Prize-winner’s UK tour

The tour, which takes place in Autumn 2013, includes 10-12 concerts, for music societies, at universities and arts venues, to include master-classes and short demonstration concerts to school children, giving the winning quartet immediate exposure across the UK. We are delighted to have developed a long-term partnership with Sheffield-based chamber music organisation Music in the Round to create performing opportunities for future competition winners. The winners of the 2012 Competition will be part of Music in the Round's 2013/14 touring programme.

 

Recital at Wigmore Hall

This is perhaps the single most significant part of the professional development plans in the UK. The costs of hiring the Wigmore Hall and promoting a concert are beyond the reach of most young quartets, so the importance of having such a performance underwritten is not to be underestimated. The Wigmore Hall debut concert provides a showcase to which influential concert promoters, members of the press and other chamber musicians can be invited.

 

CD Recording for Wigmore Hall Live

The winning quartet will make a debut recording for Wigmore Hall Live, Wigmore Hall’s Gramophone award-winning own record label. The recording will receive full marketing and distribution support from Wigmore Hall, at no cost to the winners.

 

The Banff Centre Residency Prize (value approx. $7,000)
The winner of the 2012 Competition will be offered a two week funded residency at The Banff Centre in Canada, with meals, accommodation and tuition included.

Kindly donated by The Banff Centre

 

Morrison Chamber Music Center Prize (value approx. $4,000)

The winner of the prize will be selected from the finalists by a representative of the Morrison Chamber Music Center and will be awarded a Morrison Artists Series concert and be engaged to collaborate with the Alexander String Quartet in the Instructional Program in teaching a master class at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA, USA

Kindly donated by the Morrison Chamber Music Center at San Francisco State University, funded in part by the May Treat Morrison Chamber Music Foundation.

Master-classes in Paris with a top professional quartet player

Through Wigmore Hall’s links with chamber music institutions throughout Europe, we are able to arrange for the prize-winners to take part in masterclasses with a top quartet player, courtesy of ProQuartet in Paris. The invitation will be extended to an ensemble chosen in agreement between the jury and ProQuartet, for a ProQuartet Academy In Pont Royal en Provence during the season 2012-2013. ProQuartet will provide tuition, room and board, on the Pont- Royal campus and a concert in the Lourmarin Castle during the period of the academy. Local travel ( Avignon or Marseille) will be covered by the ProQuartet; food during the academy and international travel will be at the prizewinners’ expense.

 

Menton Festival Prizes (€6,000 in total plus engagement at the Festival)

• €3,000 for the 1st Prizewinners plus engagement at the Festival in 2012, 2013 or 2014
• €2,000 for the 2nd Prizewinners plus engagement at the Festival in 2012, 2013 or 2014
• €1,000 for the 3rd Prizewinners plus engagement at the Festival in 2012, 2013 or 2014

Kindly donated by The Friends of Menton Festival

 

Greenwich International String Quartet Festival Prize (£1,000)

The winners of the 2012 Competition will receive a recital engagement on the evening of 11th April at The Greenwich International String Quartet Festival 2013, and a fee of £1000.

Kindly donated by The Greenwich International String Quartet Festival presented by Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

 

The Esterhazy Foundation Prize (value approx. €2,000)

The winners of the 2012 Competition will receive a recital engagement on the evening of Saturday 30th June 2012 as part of the 2012 Esterhazy String Quartet Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria.

Kindly donated by The Esterhazy Foundation

 

Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland Prize

Scholarship to the Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus Schloss Weikersheim, Germany, 12-23 September 2012.
Teachers: Cuarteto Casals, Heime Müller (violin).
Awarded by the Jury to the quartet they feel would most benefit from the coaching at this International Chamber Music Course.

Kindly donated by Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland