Sannicandro Laureate of the Joachim Competition
Chiara Sannicandro, a student at the Basel University of Music, has been named one of the four "Laureates" at the Joseph Joachim Competition in Hanover. She was also awarded the audience prize.
Maria Ioudenitch won the competition's main prize of 30,000 euros. All four finalists, Maria Ioudenitch, Chiara Sannicandro, Javier Comesaña and Minami Yoshida, were also awarded prize money of 10,000 euros as laureates of the competition. Chiara Sannicandro received the audience prize of 2000 euros.
Chiara Sannicandro was born in Salzburg and began violin lessons at the age of four. At the age of nine, she was accepted into the Pre-College at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where she studied with Klara Flieder. From 2016 to 2020, she studied with Mauricio Fuks at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, USA, where she completed her bachelor's degree with high honors.
The Lower Saxony Foundation has been organizing the International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover since 1991. Antje Weithaas and Oliver Wille, who took over the artistic direction from founder Krzysztof Wegrzyn in 2019, are looking for curious personalities. The Camerata Bern was also involved in the competition.
