Canadian half-wins the Joachim competition
OrchestrasThe jury, without revealing the proportions of their split, divided the first prize in Hanover last night between Angela Chan, 27, from Hong Kong and the 19-year-old Canadian Jacques Forestier.
The Canadian came away with the better share of going-home prizes – a Warner Classics recording, a 1765 Guadagnini to play for the next three years and, overwhelmingly, the audience prize.
Chan got the tight to call herself co-winner.
The jurors were: Juliane Banse (chair), Lorenza Borrani, Liza Ferschtman, Kim Kashkashian, András Keller, Gidon Kremer, Alexander Lonquich, Feng Ning, Kathrin Rabus and Stephan Zilias.
This was a total fudge. A jury that cannot makwe up its collective mind should be sent home unpaid.
EDITORIAL: When a jury can’t make up its mind
This violin competition jury was chaired by a soprano, and included a pianist, a violist, and a conductor, as well as a number of different Euro-based violinists. What is there to be surprised about?
The Queen Elisabeth this past spring demonstrated the disaster of having a jury of so many differing artists: it leads to a dull winner.
The concertmasters mentioned? Is that really all who Joachim has discovered? Hopefully 2024’s dual winners can play the Bach Double and save the world.
Bartok would remind us: At least horses rarely tie.
Juliane Banse? The Chair?
Ja, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was dead.