Four outstanding classical talents awarded the Young Talent Award – Dacapo of the ORF-2 final on June 8th on 3sat
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For the eighth time since 2017, the “Golden Note” was awarded this year as part of a pre-recorded ORF TV show, which can be seen this evening, Friday, May 31, 2024, at 9:20 p.m. on ORF 2. The award, initiated by Leona König, chairwoman of the International Music Association for the Promotion of Gifted Children (IMF), recognizes outstanding classical talent and supports them on their further artistic path. A total of nine finalists – five girls and four boys between the ages of nine and 18 – who emerged victorious from a previously held audition, performed in front of the top-class cast including soprano Camilla Nylund and the musical multi-talents Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo Jury up. A total of four of them were awarded the audience prize, which was determined in advance via online voting, in the three competition categories of wind instruments, keyboard instruments and string and plucked instruments.
Happy winners from Lower Austria, Tyrol and South Tyrol
The “Golden Note 2024” in the wind instruments category went to the eleven-year-old oboist Mira Hanner from Zwettl/Lower Austria, who thrilled the jury with Ennio Morricone’s theme “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the film “The Mission”. She performed her winning performance together with Hyung-ki Joo, the British pianist, composer, conductor and singer with Korean roots, who interpreted the lullaby “Lullaby for Leo” on the piano that was once written for his son.
In the keyboard instruments category, the 14-year-old South Tyrolean pianist Paul Herbst from Eppan was convincing, playing the third movement “Clair de Lune” from Claude Debussy’s Suite bergamasque. In his winning performance he accompanied the Finnish star soprano Camilla Nylund in her performance of the Vilja aria from Franz Lehár’s operetta “The Merry Widow”.
The jury chose the 15-year-old harpist Amelie Jade Knapp from Trautmannsdorf/Lower Austria as the winner of the “Golden Note” in the string and plucked instruments category for her presentation of Bedřich Smetana’s “The Moldau”. During her winning performance, she performed the piece “Taurus” from his “Horoscope Preludes” – an original musical implementation of the twelve zodiac signs – together with the Russian-German violinist, composer, conductor and actor Aleksey Igudesman.
The audience award, awarded for the fourth time, went to the 17-year-old saxophonist Isabella Schiefer from Innsbruck/Tyrol, who impressed in the final with the 3rd movement “Brazileira” from Darius Milhaud’s “Scaramouche” suite.
The following young musicians were also in the final of the “Golden Note 2024”:
Wind instruments category:
Dominik Baumgartner (from Brunn am Gebirge/Lower Austria, 10 years old, horn) with “My Heart Will Go On” from the film “Titanic”
Category Keyboard Instruments:
Adriana Vasilski (from Munich/Germany, 12 years old, piano) with Joseph Haydn’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 3rd movement “Rondo all’Ungarese”, Allegro assai
Anahit Stelmashova (from Tbilisi/Georgia, recently turned 18, piano) with Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd movement
String and plucked instruments category
Nikoloz Menabde (from Klosterneuburg/Lower Austria, 9 years old, violin) with Anatoli Komarowski’s Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
Raphaël Bleuse (from Vienna, 16 years old, violin) with Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”, 3rd movement “Summer”
Vienna, Monaco, New York and more: The “Golden Note 2024” awards
In addition to the solo performances in the TV finale, all finalists of this year’s “Golden Note” will receive professional, age-appropriate IMF master classes with established musicians in Austria or abroad, as well as participation in IMF projects such as: B. in a “Golden Note” concert as part of this year’s Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden as well as in the ORF young talent series “Stars & Talents”, conceived and moderated by Leona König, which continues to accompany the young artists.
In addition to the winning performances already completed in the final with the members of the star jury and a top-class trophy, the “Golden Note” winners also receive special prizes: harpist Amelie Jade Knapp will receive an appearance in the world-famous New in the 2025/26 season York’s Carnegie Hall. Young pianist Paul Herbst can look forward to a joint concert with the internationally active Armenian pianist Nareh Arghamanyan in the Notre-Dame-Immaculée Cathedral in Monaco-Ville. Oboist Mira Hanner wins free use of the famous concert hall in Vienna’s venerable Palais Ehrbar, where classical greats such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg have played, for her own concert. In addition, two concerts in Spain are planned for all three winning classical talents: In collaboration with Simón Ibáñez, clarinetist and professor at the Vienna Academy of Music, a concert with orchestra will take place in April 2025 in the renowned Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela – home of the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia – organized a second concert with orchestra in the famous opera and concert hall Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in València. The “Golden Note” audience award gives saxophonist Isabella Schiefer a semester of study at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK).
After broadcasting on ORF 2, the “Golden Note 2024” gala can also be seen on Saturday, June 8th at 9:50 p.m. on 3sat.