Viola Competition

The final results of the 5th Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition 2023!

2nd prize - Heloise Houzé (France)

3rd prize - Duleen van Gunsteren (Netherlands) and Maria Rallo Muguruza (Spain)

Competition laureate - Xunyu Zhou (China)

Honorary mention – Brian Isaacs (USA), Sarah Strohm (Germany/Swiss)

Audience prize - Héloise Houzé (France)

Prize for the best interpretation of O. Nedbal piece - Sarah Strohm (Germany/Swiss)

Prize for the best interpretation of B. Martinů piece - Brian Isaacs (USA)

Pirastro Prize for an outstanding young talent - Jimin Jang (South Korea)

Congratulations to everybody!!!

Finalists of the 5th Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition 2023!

Maria Rallo Muguruza (Spain)

Xunyu Zhou (China)

Duleen Van Gunsteren (Netherlands)

Héloïse Houzé (France)

Congratulations and we are looking forward to the final on Sunday with the Pilsner philharmonic and conductor Chuhei Iwasaki.

Prague Conservatory hall, October 1st, 17:00. Free entry, everybody is welcome!

SEMIFINALISTS OF THE 5TH OSKAR NEDBAL INTERNATIONAL VIOLA COMPETITION 2023!

From 95 violists applied for the 1st round the Jury has selected 18 semifinalists:

1. Anuschka Cidlinski (Germany)

2. Toby Cook (Great Britain)

3. Andreas Grimstad (Norway)

4. Duleen Van Gunsteren (Netherlands)

5. Héloïse Houzé (France)

6. Brian Isaacs (USA)

7. Jimin Jang (South Korea)

8. Annariina Jokela (Finland)

9. Jihwan Lim (South Korea)

10. Katie Liu (USA)

11. Shyler Macaggi (USA)

12. Yeunwoo Park (South Korea)

13. Maria Rallo Muguruza (Spain)

14. Sarah Strohm (Germany/Swiss)

15. Otoha Tabata (Japan)

16. Shuo Xu (China)

17. Zheng Yang (China)

18. Xunyu Zhou (China)

Congratulations and see you in Prague in September!!!

The application deadline is over and we´ve received an absolutely incredible amount of applications - for the first round we have 95 competitors from 32 countries!!! (Spain, Latvia, China, USA, Sweden, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Russia, South Korea, Norway, France, Denmark, Portugal, Austria, Mexico, Netherlands, Malaysia, Turkey, Hungary, Taiwan, Finland, Brasil, Italy, Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia and Kazakhstan)

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Thank you so much for applying for the Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition 2023. Our Jury just received your amazing video recordings and are going to start listening! We expect to have the 1st round results on July 14th.

We wish you the best of luck!! ❤️

1st prize – Takehiro Konoe (Japan/Netherland)

2nd prize – Kyungsik Shin (South Korea)

3rd prize – Joseph Skerik (USA)

Competition Laureate - Hwayoon Lee (South Korea)

Honorary mention – Laura Liu (USA), Wilhelm Magner (Canada), Yibo Cao (China), Ilias-Ion Livieratos (Greece)

Special awards

Audience prize - Kyungsik Shin (South Korea)

Prize for the best interpretation of O. Nedbal piece - Ilias-Ion Livieratos (Greece)

Prize for the best interpretation of B. Martinů piece - Takehiro Konoe (Japan/Netherland)

Pirastro Prize for an outstanding young talent - Laura Liu (USA)

Prague´s Conservatory Director Prize for the best Czech competitor – Bohumil Bondarenko (CZ)

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