Edna Unseld successful in Italy
The 11-year-old Swiss violinist Edna Unseld, who is taught at the Musikschule Konservatorïum Zürich (MKZ), has won the first prize of 5000 euros in the Il Piccolo Violino Magico competition in San Vito al Tagliamento (Italy).
According to a report in the specialist magazine The Strad, she played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, accompanied by the Accademia d'Archi Arrigoni under the direction of Giancarlo Guarino, Gorizia Fantasy by Aleksey Igudesman and Perpetual motion machine op. 34 No. 5 by Ries. A second prize went to Juan José Peña Aguirre (Switzerland/Colombia).
In 2021 Edna Unseld already won third prize at the International Leonid Kogan Competition (Brussels) and this year won the Swiss Youth Music Competition with distinction. She studies at the MKZ in the class of Jens Lohmann.
The 2022 edition of the Il Piccolo Violino Magico competition, open to violinists of any nationality between the ages of 9 and 13, took place from July 5 to 10. The jury consisted of Pavel Vernikov (conductor), Aleksey Igudesman, Min Lee, Ruta Lipinaityte, Jacobs Soelberg, Elisa Citterio, Svetlana Makarova and Eduard Wulfson.
