ARD Music Competition Prize Winners 2017
2017, the jury awarded one first, eight second and three third prizes in the categories violin, piano, guitar, ans oboe. In addition many special prizes were awarded.
The prize winners of the 2017 ARD Music Competition
| Violin |
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| 1st Prize: was not awarded
2nd Prize: Sarah Christian, Germany 2nd Prize: Andrea Obiso, Italy 3rd Prize: Kristine Balanas, Latvia |
| Piano |
| 1st Prize: JeungBeum Sohn, Korea
2nd Prize: Fabian Müller, Germany 3rd Prize: Wataru Hisasue, Japan |
| Guitar |
| 1st Prize: was not awarded
2nd Prize: Junhong Kuang, China 2nd Prize: Davide Giovanni Tomasi, Italy 3rd Prize: Andrey Lebedev, Australia |
| Oboe |
| 1st Prize: was not awarded
2nd Prize: Kyeong Ham, Korea 2nd Prize: Thomas Hutchinson, New Zealand 2nd Prize: Juliana Koch, Germany 3rd Prize: was not awarded |
Special Prizes
| Audience Prize
endowed by the Theodor Rogler Foundation |
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| Sarah Christian, Violin
Fabian Müller, Piano Junhong Kuang, Guitar Juliana Koch, Oboe |
| Special prize for the interpretation of the commissioned composition
endowed by the Alice Rosner Foundation |
| by Avner Dorman: Andrea Obiso, Violin
by Pascal Dusapin: Wataru Hisasue, Piano by Vito Žuraj: Andrey Lebedev, Guitar by Thierry Escaich: Thomas Hutchinson, Oboe |
| Special Prize from the Munich Chamber Orchestra |
| Sarah Christian, Violin |
| BR-KLASSIK Online Prize |
| Kyeong Ham, Oboe |
| Special Prize U21 |
| Lorenz Chen, Violin |
| Alice Rosner Prize
For an outstanding interpretation of Benjamin Britten's "Temporal Variations“ |
| Sergio Sanchez, Oboe |
| Osnabrücker Musik Prize |
| Juliana Koch, Oboe |
| Busch Brothers Prize |
| Fabian Müller, Piano |
| ifp Music Prize |
| Junhong Kuang, Guitar |
| Special Prize Mozart Society Munich |
| Junhyung Kim, Piano |
| Special Prize GENUIN classics |
| Fabian Müller, Piano |
| Henle Urtext Prizes |
| Sarah Christian, Violin
Andrea Obiso, Violin Kristīne Balanas, Violin JeungBeum Sohn, Piano Fabian Müller, Piano Wataru Hisasue, Piano |