Marguerite Wassermann awarded the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize
The Swiss baroque violinist Marguerite Wassermann has been awarded the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize at the 13th International Telemann Competition in Magdeburg.
Marguerite Wassermann studied baroque violin in London and Basel. She is a prizewinner of the Italian early music competitions Premio Bonporti (2023) and Marco Uccellini (2022). In addition to her collaboration with various early music ensembles, she regularly performs with the orchestra Le Concert des Nations and can be heard as a soloist on their recordings of Vivaldi concertos. In April, Wassermann and her ensemble The Levée will release a CD with newly discovered violin sonatas by the French theorist and music theorist Etienne Denis Delair (1662-1750).
The International Telemann Competition, which was launched in 2001, was held in two categories for the first time in its history in 2025. 31 musicians took part in the historical string instruments category. 11 international ensembles, formed by 46 musicians, competed in Magdeburg in the chamber music ensembles category, with the first round being held in video mode before the start of the competition.
