Winners announced in the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition

May 11, 2015, 10:50 AM · Congratulations to the winners of the 42nd annual Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition! The competition was held over the weekend at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind., with 49 ensembles from around the world competing (narrowed down from 133 ensembles from 29 countries) in junior and senior divisions.

Here are the prize winners:

GRAND PRIZE ($7,500)

Zorá String Quartet
Bloomington, Ind.

The Zorá String Quartet. Photo by Josef Samuel.

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SENIOR DIVISION

GOLD MEDAL ($3,500)
Zorá String Quartet
Bloomington, Ind.

Dechopol Kowintaweewat, violin
Seula Lee, violin
Pablo Muñoz Salido, viola
Zizai Ning, cello

SILVER MEDAL ($3,000)
Calla Quartet
The Colburn School
Los Angeles, Calif

Michaela Wellems, violin
Amelia Dietrich, violin
Aiden Kane, viola
Karissa Zadinsky, cello

BRONZE MEDAL ($2,000)
Autana Trio
Cleveland, Ohio

Yuri Noh, piano
Ruben Rengel, violin
Anna Bowman, cello

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Incendium Quartet JUNIOR DIVISION
(Ages 18 and under)

FIRST PLACE MEDAL
($2,300 scholarship)
Incendium Quartet (pictured, right)
The Colburn School
Pasadena Conservatory
Los Angeles, California

Geneva Lewis, violin
Mei Zhan, violin
Emma Wernig, viola
Atticus Mellor-Goldman, cello

SECOND PLACE MEDAL
($1,800 scholarship)
Trio Adonais
New England Conservatory Prep School
Boston, Massachusetts

Sammy Andonian, violin
Mari Nagahara, cello
John Gibson, piano

THIRD PLACE MEDAL
($1,300 scholarship)
Alegrar Quartet
Barratt Due Institute of Music
Oslo, Norway

Inga Vaga Gåustad, violin
Oda Holt Günther, violin
Michael Andreas Grolid, viola
Brage Botn Seim, cello

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Isolde Quartet
New England Conservatory Prep
Boston, Massachusetts
Atara String Quartet
Music Institute of Chicago

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The competition was founded in 1973 by Joseph E. Fischoff and and members of the South Bend (Ind.) Chamber Music Society. This year, National Public Radio’s From the Top will tape a special program called From the Top Backstage at Fischoff for broadcast beginning June 15 on member stations.

Read about winners in the Junior and Senior Wind Divisions here.

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The Incendium Quartet performs Brahms String Quartet No. 2 In A Minor, Op 51: