There will be fierce competition on the podium when 20 young, talented ensembles battle for the prizes, honor and future concerts in Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition October 2019.
The pre-jury has now selected the 10 string quartets and 10 wind quintets who will be given the opportunity to compete on the three great venues of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Royal Danish Library and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen this October. The number of applicants has doubled for this year’s competition and talented ensembles from all over the world have applied to the preliminary round.
The competition takes place from 15 – 19 October 2019 and is a collaboration between three major Danish cultural institutions: Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Royal Danish Library and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. The Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition is exclusively for string quartet and wind quintet and was established in 2015 to create more focus on the brilliant chamber music works of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen by letting it be interpreted by the best young musicians from all over the world.
Selected String Quartets 2019
Balourdet String Quartet – Houston
Gyldfeldt Quartett – Leipzig
Kleio Quartet – London
Lorne String Quartet – Montreal
NOVO Quartet – Copenhagen
Quatuor Elmire – Paris
Quatuor Mona – Paris
Selini Quartet – Vienna
Simply Quartet – Vienna
The Julius Quartet – Dallas
Selected Wind Quintets 2019
Auris Ensemble – Vienna
Barialro Quintet – Basel
Dandelion Quintett – München
Ensemble Ouranos – Paris
Pacific Quintet – Berlin
Quinteto O’Globo – Madrid
Quintette Promenade – Toulouse
qunst.quintett – Germany
Valborg Quintet – Stockholm
V Coloris – Copenhagen
