Winner of the first Paul Juon chamber music competition
Ten ensembles were invited to take part in the first Paul Juon Chamber Music Competition at the Kunsthalle Appenzell. The winners were Ensemble Fokus, the Loewe Quartet and the Zeitgeist Trio.
The members of Ensemble Fokus, founded in 2022, come from all over Switzerland and Germany. They are Daniela Engel, Sarah-Maria Schmid, Pauline Zahno, Alexander Rauch and Adèle Bagein. The Loewe Quartet, an ensemble of students from the Hochschule für Musik in Zurich, unites Bastian Loewe, Livia Bechtold, Juan Carlos Escobar Ossa and Alina Isabel Morger. The Zeitgeist Trio was founded by Tim Crawford, Martin Egidi and Martin Jollet, students at the Hochschule für Musik Basel. The winner of the special Paul Juon prize donated by Myriam Gebert for the best interpretation of a work by Paul Juon is the Alas Quartet.
The Swiss Chamber Music Association is the supporting association and organizer of the Lake Constance Chamber Music Festival and, in collaboration with the Paul Juon Society, organizer of the Paul Juon Chamber Music Competition with concert placement. The newly founded Paul Juon Chamber Music Competition is aimed at young Swiss ensembles and offers the winning ensembles a three-year concert placement with substantial financial support for the concerts.
All winning ensembles not only receive prize money, but are also included in the concert program of the Swiss Chamber Music Association for three years. Concert organizers who engage winning ensembles for public concerts also receive financial support from the Förderkreis. At the same time, the Förderkreis Kammermusik Schweiz guarantees the musicians appropriate remuneration.
