The Violin Channel, as this year’s official competition media partner will be providing live streaming coverage direct from all venues.
Previous 1st prize winners include Oleg Kagan, Liana Isakadze, Pavel Kogan, Yuval Yaron, Viktoria Mullova, Ilja Kaler, Leonidas Kavakos– and VC ‘Artists’ Sergei Khachatryan and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky. This year’s jury comprises: Chairman Veli-Matti Puumala, Pierre Amoyal, Serguei Azizian, Sigrun Edvaldsdottir, Pekka Kauppinen, Sung-Ju Lee, Cho-Liang Lin, Gerhard Schulz and Krzysztof Wegrzyn. The 1st prize winner will receive €25,000 (US $28,000) and a number of important international engagements – including a performance of the Sibelius Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the ‘Sibelius 150 Birthday Jubilee Gala Concert’ in Hameenlinna, Finland.
As in the Two Serenades, a nice inclusion, you might just occasionally wish Skride would go for more effect – but there’s no question that this is exceptional playing and music making.The 45 candidates have been announced for the 2015 Sibelius International Violin Competition, to be held in Helsinki, Finland from November 23rd to December 3rd, 2015 - including 7 VC 'Young Artists'. The folk-coloured passages are as convincing as her brilliance and control in the work’s three cadenzas. You don’t get showy display in the outer movements of the Sibelius, nor any of the high-bow-pressure emoting common in the central Adagio, but the expression is always honest and compelling.įor some, Skride’s approach will seem better suited to the more neo-Classical Nielsen, to which she brings a tensile strength in terms of both sound and structure. On the other hand, it’s not the boldest playing in terms of Romantic gestures and grand climaxes. She gets to the core of every note without extraneous surface noise, and her vibrato is so integrated with the tonal colouring that you hardly notice it. Sibelius’s Violin Concerto offers a great variety of interpretative possibilities (see this month’s article), and in this release the Tampere Philharmonic, under its chief conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali (who turned 30 on 5 November) is key in highlighting its Finnish colouring – thanks to its woody strings, declamatory brass and dreamy but occasionally tart wind playing.īaiba Skride’s playing here, and in the Nielsen Concerto, is characterised by a tone that is inherently and unfailingly beautiful. Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali Description: Exceptional playing, if a little muted, in concertos by two anniversarians
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