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Japanese violinist wins Stern prize
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SEVEN of the world’s finest young musicians were honored last night at the first Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition awards ceremony.
The first prize of US$100,000 went to 30-year-old Mayu Kishima of Japan for her superb performances of Ernest Chausson’s Poeme and Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 in A Minor, while the Best Chinese Work Performance prize (US$10,000) went to Song Ji-won from South Korea for her outstanding interpretation of the Chinese concerto Butterfly Lover.
Kishima, born in Kobe, began playing the violin at age three. She has won a large number of prizes in competitions both inside and outside Japan. In 2000, she took top honors (second prize with no first prize awarded) as the youngest-ever Japanese top prizewinner in the Junior Division of the 8th Wieniawski International Competition for Young Violinists. Most recently, she was awarded 1st Prize and the David Garrett Award for outstanding musical interpretation in the final round of the International Music Competition Cologne 2011.
In addition to the cash prizes, the winners will also be granted performance contracts with professional orchestras such as the China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
In the course of the competition, the contestants faced challenges including performing chamber music works, interpreting Chinese classics, creating their own cadenza for Mozart’s Concerto and collaborating with a symphony orchestra on stage.
“We hope the competition was not just about a battle of techniques, but a process through which we can help shape mature and complete musicians in the future,” said Yu Long, president of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition Organization Committee.
Two other prizes, the Isaac Stern Human Spirit Awards (each US$10,000), were presented last night to Negin Khpalwak, 19, from Afganistan, who led an ensemble of 35 Afghan women, and the teachers in charge of the Einstein Student Orchestra at Huishi Middle School in Huining County, Gansu Province.
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