Tschumi Prize 2019 also for music education
HKB students Olivera Tičević and Valentin Cotton have each been awarded an Eduard Tschumi Prize for the best overall assessment of their Master's examination. For the first time, a music educator, Laura Müller, was also awarded a prize.
Olivera Tičević, Montenegrin soprano, completed her Master's degree in Specialized Music Performance at the HKB with Christan Hilz. She has won numerous competitions. In 2010 and 2013 she was voted the most promising artist of the Baroque Austria Academy, followed by an international career with concerts in Vienna, Stockholm, Heidelberg and Tokyo.
French pianist Valentin Cotton completed his master's degree in interpretation at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in Michel Dalberto's class. He has won prizes at several international competitions, including first prize at the Concours de France and the Montrond International Competition, as well as the Schenk Prize from the foundation of the same name in Switzerland.
For the first time, however, the other four specializations of the Master's course were also taken into account in the judging process: Music Mediation, Research, New Music and Chamber Music. The music educator and clarinettist Laura Müller was able to assert herself within this reorientation of the competition with a transdisciplinary education project at the Creaviva Children's Museum at the Zentrum Paul Klee.
Every year, HKB students completing their Master's degree in Specialized Music Performance Classical Music perform at a soloist diploma concert. The Sinfonie Orchester Biel Solothurn accompanied this year's concert in Biel under the direction of its chief conductor Kaspar Zehnder. Afterwards, the students with the best overall score in the demanding three-part Master's examination were once again awarded the Eduard Tschumi Prize, each worth CHF 5,000.
