Sponsorship awards from the Zurich Conservatory of Music
The 17-year-old cellist Samuel Niederhauser has been awarded the fifth Classical Music Prize of the Musikschule Konservatorium Zürich (MKZ), while the violinist Julia Schuller, also 17, has been awarded the inaugural "Vuillaume Prize MKZ".
In the final competition, Samuel Niederhauser came out on top against four competitors. With his interpretation of two movements from the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor Op. 40 by Dmitri Shostakovich, he won over the competition jury in the Small Hall of the Zurich Tonhalle. He will invest the prize money of CHF 3,000, provided by the MKZ Foundation, in master classes.
The 17-year-old violinist Julia Schuller has been awarded the first "MKZ Vuillaume Prize". She will receive a violin from the master workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from MKZ. MKZ received the precious instrument through an inheritance.
