Richard Lin of the U.S./Taiwan Wins Gold Medal in Indianapolis Competition
EDITOR'S NOTE: Updated Sunday with Special Prizes.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Richard Lin of the U.S. has won the Gold Medal in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Congratulations to all the laureates, who were named Saturday night following the last concert in the Finals. They are:
- Gold Medal ($30,000): Richard Lin, 27, of the U.S./Taiwan
- Silver Medal ($15,000): Risa Hokamura, 17, of Japan
- Bronze Medal ($10,000): Luke Hsu, 28, of the U.S.
- Fourth Place ($7,000): Anna Lee, 23, of the U.S.
- Fifth Place ($6,000): Ioana Cristina Goicea, 25, of Romania
- Sixth Place ($5,000): Shannon Lee, 26, of the U.S./Canada
L-R: 2018 Indianapolis competition laureates Anna Lee, Shannon Lee, Ioana Cristina Goicea, Luke Hsu, Risa Hokamura and Richard Lin. Photo by Denis Ryan Kelly Jr.
SPECIAL PRIZES (announced Sunday)
- Best Performance of Bach ($1,000): Luke Hsu
- Best Performances of Paganini Caprices or Paganiniana:
- ($1,000): Richard Lin
- ($750): Elly Suh
- ($500): Risa Hokamura
- Best Performance of an Encore Work ($1,000): Elly Suh
- Best Performance of a Mozart Sonata ($1,000): Luke Hsu, violin and Chih-Yi Chen, piano
- Best Performance of a Beethoven Sonata ($1,000): Anna Lee, violin and Chih-Yi Chen, piano
- Best Performance of William Bolcom's Suite No. 3 for Solo Violin ($1,000): Stephen Kim
- Best Performance of an Ysaÿe Sonata ($1,000): Shannon Lee
- Best Performance of a Sonata (not Beethoven) ($1,000): Anna Lee
- Best Performance of a Kreisler Encore ($1,000): Richard Lin
- Best Performance of a Classical Concerto ($2,500): Anna Lee
- Best Performance of a Concerto in the Finals ($5,000): Richard Lin
Members of the 2018 Indianapolis competition jury include Jaime Laredo (President), Pamela Frank, Mihaela Martin, Kyoko Takezawa, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Dong-Suk Kang and Rodney Friend.
Founded in 1982 by Josef Gingold, Indianapolis has hosted nine competitions, occurring every every four years, naming a total of 54 laureates from 22 countries. This year's preliminaries began on Sept. 1 with 38 violinists from 13 countries, ranging in age from 16 to 29. For the 2018 Competition, the IVCI received 123 applications from 25 countries.
The Indianapolis Competition also announced that it will buy two modern violins, chosen in its 21st Century Violin Search, to be loaned to two of the laureates for four years. The violins chosen were made by:
- Paul Crowley of Brooklyn
- Philip Ihle of London
You might also like:
- Live Video for the Finals at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
- REVIEW: Indianapolis Competition Finals: Richard Lin; Risa Hokamura and Ioana Cristina Goicea
- REVIEW: Indianapolis Competition Classical Concerto Finals Day 1: Mozart with No Conductor
- Our Complete Coverage of the Indianapolis Competition
Replies
I am surprised by the age of many of the last six - including the oldest, and winner.
Not sure whether they think this will launch their careers .. which at their age should have been launched already.
I think that Ms Hokamura, at 17, is the real winner here.
Terence
Just like last week in Shanghai, here too, the winner clearly stood out of the pack. This is great.
Richard Lin played Mendelssohn two years ago with the community orchestra I am in, the Nova Vista Symphony. Unfortunately I wasn't able to play in that concert. I saw it though! Glad to see him win!
Well deserved win of Richard Lin. I really liked the results which seemed to be leaning towards overall maturity and artistry over just technique which can sometimes be acquired at very young age. Very refreshing as I am so tired of the "child prodigy" business. I also love how Luke Shu always congratulates winners no matter what. Also great was seeing well-rounded violinists with world class brain among the Lauriates - Anna Lee/Harvard and Shannon Lee/Columbia, and Nancy Zhou(Shanghai winner)/Harvard to name a few. Congratulations!
Thanks for this!
I saw and heard Richard Lin play at a masterclass at the Bowdoin International Music Festival four summers ago. He was studying with Lewis Kaplan. Richard Lin is a fabulous violinist and congratulations to him. Hope to see him in concert soloing with some of the leading orchestras.
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September 16, 2018 at 03:36 AM · Richard went to the High School where I was an assistant with the orchestra. Glad to see him win!