Winners announced in the 2022 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition

By Laurie Niles: Congratulations to the winners in the 49th annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, in which 55 ensembles from around the world competed last week, May 20-22 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Top winners in the strings divisions included the New York City-based Terra String Quartet, who won the Grand Prize Medal ($10,000 award) as well as the Gold Medal in the Senior String Division. The Olive Trio, based at The Colburn School Music Academy in Los Angeles, won the Gold Medal in the Junior String Division. Here are all the prize winners in the string divisions: SENIOR STRING DIVISIONGRAND PRIZE ($10,000) and GOLD MEDAL ($3,500)Terra String QuartetNew York, NY

• Harriet Langley, violin
• Amelia Dietrich, violin
• Ramón Carrero Martínez, viola
• Geirþrúður Guðmundsdóttir, cello

SILVER MEDAL ($3,000)Trio OndataYale School of Music, New Haven, CT

• Michael Ferri, violin
• Miriam Liske-Doorandish, cello
• Anthony Ratinov, piano

BRONZE MEDAL ($2,000)Pelia String QuartetStony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

• Heejeon Ahn, violin
• Delphine Skene, violin
• Sung Jin Lee, viola
• Nathan Cottrell, cello

Jury members in this year's Senior String division included cellist Norman Fischer, violinist Nelson Lee, pianist Cecile Licad, and violist Joanna Mendoza. JUNIOR STRING DIVISION

The Olive Trio.

GOLD MEDAL ($2,300)Olive TrioColburn School Music Academy, Los Angeles, CA

• Anaïs Feller, violin
• Mira Kardan, cello
• Daniel Wang, piano

SILVER MEDAL ($1,800)Sycamore TrioAtlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Players/Franklin Pond Chamber Music, Atlanta, GA

• Tobias Liu, violin
• Brandon Leonard, cello
• Grace Peng, piano

BRONZE MEDAL ($1,300)Peresson String QuartetThe Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL

• Katya Moeller, violin
• Kelly Kim, violin
• Sidney Lee, viola
• Serge Kalinovsky, cello

Jury members in the Junior String division included cellist Anthony Arnone, pianist Elinor Freer, and violinist Rebecca McFaul. New this year was the Lift Every Voice Prize ($1,500), for best performance of a piece by a historically underrepresented composer in the chamber music world. This inaugural prize focuses on works by Black, Hispanic, Latino or Latina composers. That prize went to the Sequoia Reed Quintet, from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. Read about winners in the Junior and Senior Wind Divisions here. The competition was founded in 1973 by Joseph E. Fischoff and and members of the South Bend (Ind.) Chamber Music Society. You might also like:

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