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04.06.2026
Both top prizes at the “Bolko von Hochberg” International Art Song Competition have been won by duos featuring students and alumni of the Karlsruhe University of Music. First prize goes to the duo comprising the Chinese bass-baritone Bo Wang and Yuriko Watanabe (who completed her concert exam in art song performance under Dr h.c. Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll) on the piano. The pair can look forward to prize money of €6,000. This duo can be seen at Gottesaue Castle this Saturday during Yuriko… Weiterlesen
03.06.2026
Zhelyo Todorov, a second-semester Bachelor’s student in Prof. Denys Proshayev’s class, has won a first prize with the highest score in Category F (born in 2006–2007, with a required repertoire duration of 10 to 18 minutes) at the international ‘Munich Piano Competition 2026’.Zhelyo Todorov was born in 2006 in the city of Varna, Bulgaria. There, he began taking lessons at the Dobri Hristov State Music Conservatory in 2013. He won his first competition at the age of 9 and made his debut with an… Weiterlesen
03.06.2026
At the international “Munich Piano Competition 2026”, which was held at Nymphenburg Palace following a rigorous preliminary selection process, Eren Parmakerli, a student in Prof. Sontraud Speidel’s class, was awarded first prize in Category D (born in 2010–2011, required performance duration 8–14 minutes).Eren Parmakerli, born in Heidelberg in 2011, began taking piano lessons with Erika Tieg at the age of four. Since 2020, he has been a pupil of Prof. Sontraud Speidel, and since 2022 he has… Weiterlesen
01.06.2026
Masaya Kamei has often impressed audiences – for example, the jury at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, where he won fifth prize. The Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels is one of the most prestigious international music competitions of all. Masaya Kamei, aged 25, is still a student in Prof. Momo Kodama’s piano class. Consequently, the audience at the Wolfgang Rihm Forum in Karlsruhe had the pleasure of experiencing him as a ‘magician of sound’. Read the review in the Badische Neueste… Weiterlesen
27.05.2026
At the 2026 national ‘Jugend musiziert’ competition, three PreCollege students from Prof. Sontraud Speidel’s class won first prizes in the Piano Solo category: in age group 3 (born in 2012, 2013) Luise Bold and Ih-Ruhn Katharina Jung, and in age group 4 (born in 2010, 2011) Eren Parmakerli.