Hannover's Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Announces 2024 Finalists

Streamed LIVE on The Violin Channel, three violinists will compete for the top prizes starting at 8 AM (ET) on September 28, 2024

The twelfth edition of the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition is currently taking place in Hannover, Germany. Open to violinists born between September 29, 1991, and September 16, 2008, the competition is run by the Stiftung Niedersachsen and takes place every three years. You can watch the competition LIVE on The Violin Channel. 

This year's competition finalists are violinists Jacques Forestier, Angela Chan, and Kyumin Park.

The winner will receive €30,000, while each finalist will receive €10,000. There are several other prizes — including several concert engagements, the 3-year loan of a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini from the Fritz Behrens Foundation, and a 2,000 Euro Audience Award.

Additionally, the Warner Classics label will select one person from all participants whose debut album it will communicate and market internationally, while G. Henle Verlag will award a music voucher worth 2,000 Euro to the finalists.

In the Semi-finals, which took place in two vigorous rounds, the semifinalists performed with the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Kuss Quartet.

The three finalists will perform concerti and a newly commissioned work by composer Enno Poppe with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under the direction of Stephan Zilias.

Soprano Juliane Banse will chair the jury in 2024 and carry out the assessments together with violinists Lorenza Borrani, Ning Feng, Liza Ferschtman, András Keller, Gidon Kremer, and Kathrin Rabus as well as violist Kim Kashkashian, pianist Alexander Lonquich and conductor Stephan Zilias.