Star jury Camilla Nylund, Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo evaluate nine young talents – top prizes such as a concert appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York!
Vienna (OTS) – For nine highly gifted artistic talents, their passion for music and years of practice have paid off! On Friday, May 31, 2024, at 9:20 p.m. on ORF 2, five girls and four boys between the ages of nine and 18 will be in the grand finale of the “Golden Note 2024”. In a brilliant TV show – this year again moderated by Leona König, initiator of the classical young talent award of the same name and chairwoman of the International Music Association for the Promotion of Gifted Children (IMF), and fellow ORF presenter Norbert Oberhauser – they play for first place in their category ( String and – for the first time – plucked instruments, wind instruments and keyboard instruments). In addition, a public prize determined in advance via online voting will also be awarded this year. The nine finalists come from Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Tyrol as well as Bavaria, South Tyrol and Georgia. With their performances they want to impress the top-class jury, which this year included star soprano Camilla Nylund and the artistic multi-talents Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo. Heidelinde Haschek is responsible for the TV direction of the “Golden Note” gala, which can also be seen on Saturday, June 8th at 9:50 p.m. on 3sat.
Leona König: “A lot of cheers and a lot of tears (of joy)”
“The ‘Golden Note’ is fulfilling big dreams again this year! Our finalists will not only be the focus of a brilliant TV show and demonstrate their skills there, but will also later inspire audiences from major international concert stages – from Carnegie Hall in New York to the concert and opera house in Valencia, the Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela and the Notre-Dame-Immaculée Cathedral in Monaco to the city theater in Gmunden. These are some of the great prizes that await this year’s talent, which I’m particularly excited about by the way. These are fantastic and very versatile musicians. “I’m not giving too much away when I say: there will be a lot of cheering and a lot of tears (of joy) at the finale,” said the “Golden Note” creator and presenter.
The nine finalists 2024 and their competition pieces:
String and plucked instruments category
Nikoloz Menabde (from Klosterneuburg/Lower Austria, 9 years old, violin)
Anatoli Komarowski: Concerto No. 2, 1st movement
Amelie Jade Knapp (from Trautmannsdorf/Lower Austria, 15 years old, harp)
Bedřich Smetana: “Die Moldau”
Raphaël Bleuse (from Vienna, 16 years old, violin)
Antonio Vivaldi: “The Four Seasons”, 3rd movement (“Summer”)
Wind instruments category:
Dominik Baumgartner (from Brunn am Gebirge/Lower Austria, 10 years, Horn)
„My Heart Will Go On“ aus dem Film „Titanic“
Mira Hanner (from Zwettl/Upper Austria, 11 years old, oboe)
Ennio Morricone: “Gabriel’s Oboe” from the film “The Mission”
Isabella Schieferer (from Innsbruck/Tyrol, 17 years old, saxophone)
Darius Milhaud: “Scaramouche” suite op. 165b – 3rd movement “Brazileira”
Keyboard instruments category:
Adriana Vasilski (from Munich/Germany, 12 years old, piano) Joseph Haydn: Concerto for piano and orchestra in D major, Hob.XVIII:11, 3rd movement “Rondo all’Ungarese”
Very happy
Paul Herbst (from Eppan/South Tyrol, 14 years old, piano)
Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque, 3rd movement (“Clair de Lune”)
Anahit Stelmashova (from Tbilisi/Georgia, soon to be 18, piano)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2, 3rd movement
“Golden Note 2024” awards: International concerts, including in New York’s Carnegie Hall or in the Valencia Opera House, master classes and much more
From the “Golden Note” stage to the world-famous Carnegie Hall in New York! This year’s winners of the Music Promotion Prize expect top concert performances at home and, for the first time, abroad. One winner can look forward to a concert together with pianist Nareh Arghamanyan in the Notre-Dame-Immaculée Cathedral in Monaco-Ville. In collaboration with Simón Ibáñez, clarinetist and professor at the Vienna Academy of Music, a concert with orchestra in the renowned Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain – home of the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia – is planned in April 2025, as well as a second concert in Spain with orchestra in the famous opera and concert hall Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia. The prize winner who wins an appearance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in the 2025/26 season will be able to travel the furthest.
In addition to the solo performances in the TV finale, all finalists of the “Golden Note 2024” 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. There is also free use of the famous concert hall in Vienna’s Palais Ehrbar, where classical greats such as Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schönberg have played, for your own concert or recording, as well as – as an audience prize – a semester of music study and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK). The “Golden Note” winners will also receive a top-class trophy – in addition to the winning performances already completed in the final with the artists of the star jury.