The Mendelssohn Scholarship, awarded by the Prussian State from 1879 to 1936, was revived in 1963 by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The Foundation awards the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize once a year per competition opened to particularly talented students at one of the 23 recognised music academies in Germany.
The award is decided in a competition with two annually changing competition subjects, in which each university may nominate only one candidate or ensemble for each subject. Ensembles consisting of students from different universities may also be nominated (the universities participating in the mixed ensembles agree on which university will nominate this ensemble).
The appoints the members of the juries. For each competition subject, they are composed of a rector as chairman, four specialist jurors and two jurors from other disciplines.
State of Prussia 1893: Carl Thiel 1901: Alfred Wittenberg
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation 1963: Klaviertrio (Cologne): Bernhard Kontarsky, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn, Thomas Bless 1965: Yuuko Shiokawa 1966: Walter Steffens 1970: Raymund Havenith 1974: Georg Faust 1977: Marioara Trifan 1978: Harald Feller 1988: Herbert Fandel 1997: Luiza Borac and Kersten McCall 1998: Erika Geldsetzer, Marion Reinhard and Toomas Vana 1999: Markus Schön and Anke Vondung 2000: Franz Kaern and Birgit Kölbl 2001: esBRASSo-Quintett and Johannes Moser 2002: Cambini-Quintett and Julia Mai 2003: Andrew Dewar and the Korea String Trio 2004: Jan Skryhan and Konstantin Wolff 2005: Kim Trio and Guilhaume Santana 2006: Julian Arp, Frederic Belli and Caspar Frantz 2007: Emilio Peroni, Pauline Reguig and Li-Chun Su 2008: Orion Quartet and Wen Xiao Zheng 2009: Ankush Kumar Bahl 2010: Duo Parthenon aus Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover 2012: Sarah Christian and Sebastian Küchler-Blessing 2013: Konstanze von Gutzeit 2014: Dennis Sörös 2015: Sara Kim 2016: Wataru Hisasue
Other prize winners (Scholarship of the Federal President) 2003: Mareile Krumbholz and Matthias Voget 2004: Falko Hönisch, Nicolas Kyriakou and Christian Peix 2005: Manfred Baumgärtner, Alpézso Trio and Julius Stern Trio 2006: Tobias Bloos, Maria Daroch, Tomasz Daroch, Nicolas Naudot and Li-Chun Su 2007: Jovana Nikolic, Marie-Claudine Papadopoulos and Alexander Schimpf 2008: Eos Klavierquartet, Barbara Buntrock and Julia Neher Wettbewerb 2009:September Klavierduo von der Hochschule für Musik Saar: Michael Christensen, Chi-Hsien Kuan Streichquartett von der Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover: Almandin-Quartett (Meike Bertram, Anne Marie Harer, Karoline Markert, Katharina Kühl) Klavierduo von der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München: Richard Humburger, Valentin Humburger Quartett von der Universität der Künste Berlin: Armida-Quartett (Martin Funda, Johanna Eschenburg, Teresa Schwamm, Peter-Philipp Staemmler) 2010: Duo Roudi Li (cello) and Vasyl Kotys (piano), Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock 2012: Iva Miletic and Nathan Laube 2014: Sumi Hwang (singer), University of Music and Performing Arts Munich 2015: Adrien La Marca, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" 2016: So Hyang In, University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
See also International Mendelssohn Prize Leipzig, former Leipziger Mendelssohn-Preis, der Mendelssohn Foundation
References
External links Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Preis