Competitions and Master Classes
There are numerous top-class competitions and master classes at the Freiburg University of Music in which you can participate.
Inform yourself about the current tender documents and about prize money and deadlines:
International Music Competitions Freiburg
University internal competitions
Master Classes for young talents
Dear concert audience, please note:
Under the link below you will find all the competition and master class events that you can visit:
International Music Competitions in Freiburg
The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg hosts several international music competitions in yearly rotation:
Freiburg International Clarinet Competition
Freiburg International Violin Competition
All competitions are professionally organized and highly competitive. Outstanding figures from the international music scene participate as jurors.
The Clarinet and Violin competitions are organized by the association "Internationale Musikwettbewerbe Freiburg e.V." under its chairman Dr. Rüdiger Nolte, Rector of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
The Kurt Boßler Organ Competition is organized by the »Freunde und Förderer der Musik Kurt Boßlers«
International Kurt Boßler Organ Competition
International Clarinet Competition
The International Clarinet Competition has taken place twice so far, in 2009 and 2012.
Winners 2012
1st prize (10.000 Euro):
Andraes Lipp
Germany
2nd prize (3.000 Euro) and special prize Philharmonic Orchestra:
Giovanni Punzi
Italy
3rd prize (2.000 Euro):
Carjez Gerretsen
Netherlands
Winners 2009
The 25-year-old clarinetist Moran Katz from Israel won the first prize of 10,000 euros in the 1st International Clarinet Competition Freiburg 2009. The second prize (3,000 euros) went to Timothy Carter (29 years old) from the USA, and third place (2,000 euros) went to the 21-year-old Belgian Annelien van Wauwe. Shelly Ezra, 24 years old and also from Israel, received the jury's special prize (1,000 euros).
Freiburg International Violin Competition
Rainer Kussmaul, who has taught a now legendary violin class at the Musikhochschule Freiburg since 1977, serves as president and head of the jury of this classical violin competition. The other jury members are the violin professors Ulf Hoelscher (Karlsruhe), John Holloway (Dresden), Takumi Kubota (Tokyo), Hu Kun (London), and Sergej Kravchenko (Moscow), as well as the music critic Alexander Dick (Freiburg).
The competition is funded by the State of Baden-Württemberg. Prizes include a 15,000 euro first price, a second and third prize worth 10,000 and 7,500 euros, respectively, as well as several special prizes. Recitals with the prize winners in the region Freiburg/Basel/Colmar are planned.
A special feature of this new violin competition - an indirect successor to the Ludwig Spohr Violin Competition, which took place in Freiburg beginning in 1977 - is the fact that the third of a total of four rounds is performed with a chamber orchestra and soloists who also conduct.
The contest has taken place twice so far. The next contest is scheduled for fall 2017.
Winners 2014
Rosanne Philippens (Netherlands) won the first prize and also the prize of the Philharmonic Orchestra: a concert with the Philharmonic Orchestra.
The second prize went to 25-year-old Nitzan Bartana (Israel). She also received the special prize (2.500 Euro) for the best interpretation of a Mozart violin concert.
The third prize went to Angelo de Leo (Germany).
Winners 2010
The 24-year-old violinist Itamar Zormann from Israel won the first prize of 15,000 euros in the 4th round of the 1st International Violin Competition Freiburg 2010. The second prize (10,000 euros) went to Elena Graf (22 years old) from Frankfurt, and third place (7,500 euros) went to the 27-year-old Armenian Martin Yavryan. The special prizes in the 1st International Violin Competition Freiburg were already awarded after the 3rd competition round on Sunday, August 29. The special prize for the best interpretation of one of the four violin concertos by W.A. Mozart in the amount of 2500 € was awarded to Itamar Zorman. The special prize for the best young performer in the amount of 2500 € went to 14-year-old Milena Wilke from Freiburg.
Picture Gallery 2010
‘Aphorisms’, ‘Eschatological Contemplation’, ‘Kaleidoscope’, ‘Controversy’, ‘Mixturen’ – organ works with headings such as these arouse curiosity. And in the case of Kurt Bossler, rightly so. For they conceal an exciting musical language which blends rationality and emotion, rigour and poetry. ‘Aphorisms’: delight in incisive fragments of thought; ‘Eschatological Contemplation’: a profound vision in sound of the apocalypse; ‘Kaleidoscope’: appealing and turbulent play with forms and tone colours; ‘Controversy’: full of suspense and excitement, an exploration of the modern composer’s dilemma; ‘Mixturen’: creative combination of tonality and atonality - this is just a foretaste of what listeners and performers can expect from Bossler’s organ compositions.
Further Information
www.kurt-bossler.de
Born 10th July 1911 in Duisburg he came to music relatively late. His studies at the Düsseldorf Musikhochschule were certainly as crucial for his development as a composer as his exceptional autodidactic abilities and characteristically fierce independence. Those who like the author experienced Kurt Bossler as a teacher, found in him a man of keen mind and tireless imagination. His seriousness and incorruptible judgement concerning musical quality were matched by his friendliness and good humour. Last but not least we remember his characteristic love of mischief, his healthy absence of the doctrinaire and the freedom of his vision - all qualities which show in the living breath of his music which is playful, often dancing, always full of imagination. (Bertold Wicke)
From 1943-63 Kurt Bossler was active in Freiburg, his chosen home town, at first teaching composition and theory at the Städtische Musikschule, later Musikhochschule, continuing as a freelance composer and organist at both the Pauluskirche and Friedenskirche. During his highly creative period in Freiburg he composed many works and took an active part in the musical life of the city. He also worked closely with many influential artists of his day who performed and premiered his compositions bringing them to an ever-widening international audience.
In 1963 he accepted a post at the Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg where he taught composition and theory until his death in 1976.
Besides numerous compositions for organ, his output encompasses works for piano, chamber music for strings and wind, choral and orchestral works, as well as songs.
Further Information
www.kurt-bossler.de
Competitions
Students enrolled at the University of Music can take part in several internal competitions. Please refer to the individual pages for detailed information. We are looking forward to your applications!
The Ulrich Vogt Foundation supports talented and needy students in main subject horn at the Freiburg University of Music and also provides funding for the entire horn class at the Freiburg University of Music.
Among other things, the foundation also supports the Horn Competition, which was last held in 2012.
The Freiburg University of Music awards two scholarships in the amount of 12,000 euros once a year for special achievements by highly talented students.
There is no application procedure. Rather, the candidates are selected by the department spokespersons and proposed to the Rectorate for the awarding decision.
The award is indigenced by performance criteria; in the case of several candidates with the same performance, the criterion of need also applies.
The scholarship holder must play an orchestral instrument.
The Helmut Spehl Award is presented at the end of the winter semester for the following summer and winter semester.
The Helmut Spehl Prize was awarded for the first time in 2014.
Winners of the Helmut-Speh-Preis 2014
Indira Rahmatullaeva Violoncello
Class Prof. Jean-Guihen Queyras
Prize: 6000 Euro
Timothy Francis Trumpet
Class Prof. Wim Van Hasselt
Prize: 6000 Euro