February 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Rewarding musical excellence

Borletti-Buitoni Trust announces 2018 Awards and Fellowships

Fifteen exceptional young musicians from all over the world join BBT’s roster of Award and Fellowship winners in 2018. Awards of £30,000 and Fellowships of £20,000 are provided for the advancement of their musical careers across a broad range of projects and requirements. As always the BBT team offers encouragement and support, as well as finances, to help them realise their long-held ambitions.

AWARDS Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam Annelien Van Wauwe

FELLOWSHIPS Castalian String Quartet Trio Isimsiz piano trio Tessa Lark violin

Diyang Mei viola Annelien Van Wauwe Alessio Pianelli cello Photo: Christian Ruvolo

Award winners

Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam quartet competitions in Bordeaux and Weimar. Its first CD, Metamorphoses, was Judith van Driel violin Editor’s Choice in Gramophone magazine Marleen Wester violin and the second, Labyrinth, also met with Marie-Louise de Jong viola international critical acclaim including a David Faber cello five-star review in BBC Music Magazine. “Sharing the heart of music is our motto Among recent career highlights are debuts and we live and breathe old and new music at the Vienna Konzerthaus and in the USA, Photo: Christian Ruvolo in both our performances and recordings,” and the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s says Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam. The opera Only the Sound Remains with quartet studied with the Alban Berg Quartet Philippe Jaroussky at the Dutch National in Cologne and at the Dutch String Quartet Opera. Dudok Kwartet Amsterdam is a Academy with Marc Danel, graduating regular guest at the Concertgebouw and with highest distinction in 2013 and going has performed at top venues all over on to win top prizes in international string Europe.

Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet Belgian clarinettist, Annelien Van Wauwe, is renowned for her performances on both modern and period and is equally dedicated to contemporary and early music repertoire. A former BBC New Generation Artist (2015-17), she has been winning prizes from an early age, including the 61st International ARD Music Competition in Munich (2012). She performs with leading orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester , Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras and regularly appears in venues throughout Europe such as Tonhalle Zürich, Bozar Brussels, Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Konzerthaus Vienna, Wigmore Hall London and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She made her Proms debut in 2017 with the world premiere of Manfred Trojahn’s Sonata V for clarinet and piano.

Photo: Feiko Koster Her CD of clarinet sonatas by Weinberg and Prokofiev was released in 2015 on Genuin. She currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory Antwerp and her own teachers included , Yehuda Gilad, Eric Hoeprich and Ernst Schlader..

Prize at the nd

Trio Isimsiz violin Pablo Hernán Benedí Michael Petrov cello Erdem Misirlioglu piano Guildhall in 2009 at London’s Formed School of Music & Drama (and now Fellows Trio Isimsiz was selected for YCAT there), in 2013 and went on to win First Prize plus Audience Prize at the Trondheim Competition (2015) and 2 Haydn Competition in Vienna (2017). Having including performed widely in Europe, Mecklenburg- recitals at the Stavanger, Aldeburgh and Peasmarsh Vorpommern, Fundación Tivoli Concert Hall, Festivals, Juan March in Madrid and Marianischer- the Trio has also Saal in Lucerne, undertaken tours in China and Argentina. Mentors and chamber partners have Krzysztof included Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester and Aleksander Chorzelski, Rados at IMS as well as Ferenc Madzar, Prussia Cove. Current season highlights theinclude an all-Beethoven programme at concerts at Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris, and the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival Wigmore recitals at the Köln Philharmonie, Hall and Saffron Hall. The Trio’s first CD was released on the Rubicon label in November 2017. Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Brahms International th viola Markneukirchen International Markneukirchen nd Viola Competition in Austria (2012), to name Austria (2012), Viola Competition in viola He is currently studying but a few. Hariolf Schlichtigperformance with Prof. Musik und Theaterat the Hochschule für worked with renownedMünchen and has also Nobuko Zukerman, players such as Pinchas Valentin Coletti, Paul Diaz, Roberto Imai, a soloist he has As Erben and Günter Pichler. includingperformed with orchestras Phiharmonic Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Phiharmonic Orchestra Bad Reichenhall, Chursächsiche Phiharmonie Orchestra Poznan, and Philharmonic Youth Bad Elster, heOrchestra Busan. As a chamber musician has performed with Nicolas Chumachenco, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Matthias Buchholz, Erika Geldsetzer and Wenn-Sinn Yang, Micheal Schäfer among others. Diyang Mei plays a Wolfgang Scharff viola generously donated by Ingeborg Fahrenkamp-Schäffler. Instrumental Viola Competition (2017), Max (2017), Instrumental Viola Competition Viola Competition in Rostal International Berlin (2015) and the 19 Diyang Mei Diyang has a wealth Diyang Mei already Chinese-born first prizes honours including of international at the 52

Photo: Francesca Cicala

cello

and Müller & Schade, recorded for Seed and Müller & Schade, Sinfonica Siciliana, Sinfonieorchester Basel Sinfonica Siciliana, RAIand Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della bringing his music into prominent di Torino, halls throughout the world including Walt Auditorium Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Auditorium della Musica in Rome, Parco and Phoenix Stadt Casino Basel, Rai in Turin, Hall Osaka. Alessio has recorded several albums for labels such as Almendra Music, Egea and Claves Concerto, Nami Records, and several of his compositions have been published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno , Music and performed in Italy, Switzerland and France. His piece Tanzen Wir! was awarded the first prize at the International Composition Competition and 100 Cellos in 2016. Festival Alessio Pianelli Alessio PianelliSicilian cellist and composer with Giovanni Sollima studied in Palermo hasand in Basel with Thomas Demenga and including Antonio won several competitions, Janigro International Cello Competition (2006) and International Cello Competition B. Mazzacurati (2016). He regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras such as Orchestra Philarmonie Baden-Baden, In Clausura organised by the Ravenna

violin

Fellowships

prize from the Indianapolis Competition. Stradivarius violin, on loan as part of her Stradivarius violin, The Juilliard School and plays the ex-Gingold Conservatory and an Artist Diploma from holds a Master’s degree from New England bass duo Tessa Lark & Michael Thurber. She Lark & Michael Thurber. bass duo Tessa Series, as well as appearances with the violin- Series, widely praised for her technical agility, technical agility, widely praised for her Isabella Stewart Gardner Ravinia, Hall, Orchestra and Oberlin College Artist Recital International Violin Competition, has been Competition, International Violin venues as Carnegieorchestras and in such Philharmonicdebuts with the Buffalo Indianapolis and winner of the NaumburgIndianapolis and winner Americanhas appeared with numerous and the Marlboro, Phillips Collection, season includeHighlights of her 2017-18 in the International Violin Competition of Violin Competition in the International range of sounds. Shemusical elegance and the San Francisco Performances, Museum, and Music@Menlo festivals. Caramoor, Avery Fisher Career Grant, Silver Medalist Silver Fisher Career Grant, Avery American violinist Tessa Lark, recipient of an recipient Lark, violinist Tessa American Tessa Lark Tessa Photo: Lauren Desberg In 2017 BBT supported a number of recordings, Fellowships all of which met with wide critical acclaim.

Castalian String Quartet Accolades include first prizes at the 2015 Alec Frank-Gemmill Maria Milstein Lyon and 2013 Kammermusik Hannover The Horn is a Noble and The Vinteuil Sonata on Mirare Sini Simonen violin Competitions and third prize at the Banff Melancholy Instrument on BIS Daniel Roberts violin “The salon-like intimacy of the International Quartet Competition in 2016 Charlotte Bonneton viola “The changes of sound and balance between the violin and when they were also selected for Young Christopher Graves cello technology are fascinating, but the piano is totally appropriate, Classical Artists Trust (YCAT). Current the programme and the playing and the transparent detailing of The Castalian String Quartet is rapidly emerging season highlights include performances are what really make this such an the textures seems effortless, too. as a distinctive voice on the international chamber of the complete Haydn Op. 76 Quartets excellent recital” It’s hugely enjoyable, however music scene, having recently appeared at at Wigmore Hall, and concerts in the Tel Andrew McGregor much you know about Proust.” Aldeburgh and East Neuk Festivals, Sommerliche Aviv Museum of Art, Heidelberger BBC Radio 3 Record Review Andrew Clements Musiktage Hitzacker, Quartetaffairs in Frühling Festival and Zwischentöne The Guardian Frankfurt and Turin Chamber Music Series. Festival in Engelberg. Further afield they Augustin Hadelich tour China, the US, Canada and Columbia. Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Bram Van Sambeek They will also undertake residencies at and Lalo Symphonie espagnole Aho and Fagerlund - Solo and Saffron Hall, Stoller Hall (Manchester), on LPO LIVE Concerto works for Bassoon on BIS Birmingham Conservatoire and Menuhin “While his fireworks are terrific, School. Formed in 2011, the Castalian it is his eloquent playing of the “Bram van Sambeek takes String Quartet studied with Oliver Wille lyrical sections that makes everything in his evidently (Kuss Quartet) at the Hannover University Hadelich’s account of this extensive stride. The agility, of Music, Drama and Media, graduating warhorse [Tchaikovsky] stand conviction, impish humour and with a Master’s. out from the crowd. ... If you searing seriousness all stem are interested in an up-to-date from a remarkably rounded recording of Lalo’s Symphonie musicianship: talent and espagnole and want one of the personality in abundance, but at finest accounts in my opinion of the same time strongly focused. the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, I’ve a feeling composers will be then you need look no further.” queuing up to write for him.” Leslie Wright Stephen Johnson Music Web International BBC Music Magazine The Heath Quartet Kate Whitley Béla Bartók Complete String I Am I Say - on NMC Quartets on Harmonia Mundi “Capricious, yet cogent, Whitley’s “This complete cycle of the six music has admirably user- Bartók sting quartets finds the friendly surfaces that conceal Heath Quartet at the top of its hidden intensities. We will hear game... The string tone much more of her.” throughout... is flawless, and Richard Morrison ensemble work is exemplary... The Times

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