Swiss participants in the ARD Music Competition 2016
From 345 applications, a preliminary jury selected 199 participants for the ARD Music Competition 2016 in the categories double bass, horn, harp and bridge quartet, including three horn players from Switzerland.
The highest number of applicants (127) was in the double bass category, which is represented in the competition for the first time in seven years. The three Swiss horn players are Ivo Dudler, Claudio Flückiger and Dominik Zinsstag. Milena Viotti is listed as the French-Swiss participant.
The harpists will kick off the competition on Monday, August 29, in the Great Hall of the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. The first of a total of four competition rounds in the double bass and string quartet categories will begin on August 31 and September 2 in Studios 1 and 2 of Bayerischer Rundfunk, while the horn category will start on September 3 in the Carl-Orff-Saal in the Gasteig.
From the semi-finals onwards, the musicians will be prominently accompanied by the Munich Chamber Orchestra (without conductor) and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Constantin Trinks.
The 65th ARD International Music Competition comes to an end with the three prizewinners' concerts on Wednesday, September 14, Thursday, September 15 and Friday, September 16. The prize-winning musicians will present a program specially conceived for the concerts in the Prinzregententheater and the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz.
