Pamela Frank to head Menuhin Competition
mainJudges have been announced for the next Yehudi Menuhin Competition, which will take place in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2020.
It’s mostly the usual suspects:
Pamela Frank (Chair, USA),
Joji Hattori (Vice Chair, Japan/Austria),
Noah Bendix-Balgley (USA/Germany),
Ray Chen (Australia),
Aaron Dworkin (USA),
Ning Feng (China/Germany),
Ralph Kirshbaum (USA),
Anton Nel (South Africa/USA)
and Soyoung Yoon (South Korea/Switzerland).
Don’t know what you mean by “usual suspects.” Aaron Dworkin, founder of Sphinx; Ray Chen won the Menuhin a while ago; Anton Nel, a pianist; Ralph Kirshbaum, a cellist. Nothing “usual” about these folks, plus Ms. Frank has outstanding credentials.
NL’s usual complaint: some of these people teach (though they all seem to be performers as well).
Soyoung Yoon, well known in Switzerland from her time as leader of the Basel Symphonie Orchester !
Very happy to hear! Congratulations!
Well, this is inevitable. It would have been unrealistic to expect them to choose totally obscure judges.