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Violin Competition

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Dutch Violin Competition

For three weeks, TivoliVredenburg will be all about the violin. The Dutch Violin Competition is organizing various activities, including the Night of the Violin on Friday, January 26, to provide a stage for violinists from all corners of the world (of music). Young talents will also be performing: over the coming weeks, they will be competing for the Iordens A and B Prizes, the Davina van Wely Prize, the Oskar Back Prize, and the non-classical Young Creators Prize. All concerts are open to the public!

Many of the participants play a violin and/or bow from our collection. Of course, we encourage them all! Will you join us?

Oskar Back

The grand finale of the Oskar Back Prize, accompanied by the Residentie Orkest, will take place on Saturday, January 27, at 8:00 p.m. Top talents up to age 26 are competing for this prize. We are cheering on the following violinists:

• Dasha Serck
  Dasha has three instruments on loan from the Musical Instrument Fund: a 19th-century Italian violin, a Lotte bow (Mirecourt, 20th century), and, temporarily, a Baroque bow made by Luis Emilio Rodriguez Carrington in The Hague in 2022.

• Enzo Kok
  Enzo is currently in the process of trying out violins. It’s still a surprise which violin he’ll play during the competition!

• Pauli Paananen
  Pauli is also still busy in our Instrument Room. He’ll play the competition on his current instrument, and afterward he’ll come to the Music Instrument Fund to choose a violin.

• Quintijn van Heek
  Quintijn plays a violin built by Goldnagl (Vienna, 1993) with a bow made by Andreas Grütter in Amsterdam in 2013.

• Robin Veldman
  Robin plays an 18th-century Italian violin attributed to Giovanni Francesco Celoniato.

• Salomé Bonnema
  Salomé plays with a Pecatte violin bow made in Paris around 1870.

• Vivian Giesbertz
  Vivian has three instruments on loan from the Musical Instrument Fund: a Pierre Silvestre violin (Lyon, 1858), a Morizot bow, and, temporarily, a Baroque bow built by Marcus van de Munckhof in Ilpendam in 2023.

• Yente Lottman
  Yente plays with a violin bow made by Jean Jaques Millant in Paris, circa 1970.

• Adriaan van Es
  Adriaan is temporarily playing with a Baroque bow made by André Klaassen (Zutphen, 2008).

Update: Results of the Oskar Back Prize
1st prize: Salomé Bonnema
2nd prize: Kira van der Woerd (+ Prize for Best Performance of the Required Piece)
3rd prize: Enzo Kok (+ Audience Choice Award)
Winner of the Performance Award: Quintijn van Heek

Davina van Wely

Talented violinists aged 14 through 17 compete for this prize. The semifinalists have now been announced! They will all receive the Coosje Wijzenbeek Prize, co-sponsored by Het Muziekinstrumentenfonds. Some of them play an instrument from our collection:

• Adinda van Delft
  Adinda plays a “Voller Brothers” violin from London, 19th century, with a Seifert bow made in Bubenreuth around 1970.

• Charlotte Kouwe
  Charlotte plays with a violin bow made by Albert Nürnberger in Markneukirchen in the early 20th century.

• Djuna Dokter
  Djuna chose a violin and bow just in time for the competition!

• Marcel Sutedja
  Marcel plays an anonymous Italian violin with a Strumphler bow, built after 1989 in Vleuten.

• Pieter Streefkerk
  Pieter plays a violin built by Gaetano Pollastri in Bologna in 1953.

• Pouya Azimi
  Pouya has both a violin and a bow on loan: built by Johannes Bachmann (Groningen, 1912) and Lothar Seifert (Bubenreuth, ca. 1970).

Update: Results of the Davina van Wely Prize
1st Prize: Marcel Sutedja
2nd Prize: Michelle Kumara (+ Prize for Best String Quartet Performance)
3rd Prize: Charlotte Kouwe
Prize for Best Performance of the Required Piece: Adinda van Delft

Iordens B

The preliminary rounds for the Iordens B Prize will take place on Saturday, January 14. For this prize, violinists aged 13 through 14 will compete against one another with a program of their own choosing. The following violinists have an instrument and/or bow on loan from us:

• Floor Kes
  Floor plays an old Dutch violin from around 1760, attributed to J.B. Lefebvre.

• Eline van Dijk
  Eline has a 20th-century Nuremberg violin bow on loan. She recently added a Gand & Bernadel violin (Paris, 1880) from our collection to her collection!

• Margriet van den Hoven
  Margriet plays a violin built by Lambert Houniet in Utrecht in 1996.

• Reo Pramana
  Since last fall, Reo has been playing a Max Möller violin from Amsterdam, 1919, with a bow made by Grütter in Amsterdam around 2000.

• Minori Mori
  Minori, too, has recently been loaned an instrument from the collection of Het Muziekinstrumentenfonds: a violin built by Daniel Parker (London, ca. 1715).

• Quinten van Brummen
  Quinten has been playing an 18th-century Italian violin by an unknown maker for a year and a half.

Update: Results for Iordens B
1st prize: Katja Naegele
2nd prize: Quinten van Brummen
3rd prize: Floor Kes (+ Prize for Best Performance of the Required Piece)