Winners announced in the 2022 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition

May 22, 2022, 7:35 PM · Congratulations to the winners in the 49th annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, in which 55 ensembles from around the world competed last week, May 20-22 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

The Terra String Quartet.

Top winners in the strings divisions included the New York City-based Terra String Quartet, who won the Grand Prize Medal ($10,000 award) as well as the Gold Medal in the Senior String Division. The Olive Trio, based at The Colburn School Music Academy in Los Angeles, won the Gold Medal in the Junior String Division.

Here are all the prize winners in the string divisions:

SENIOR STRING DIVISION

GRAND PRIZE ($10,000) and GOLD MEDAL ($3,500)

Terra String Quartet
New York, NY

Harriet Langley, violin
Amelia Dietrich, violin
Ramón Carrero Martínez, viola
Geirþrúður Guðmundsdóttir, cello

SILVER MEDAL ($3,000)

Trio Ondata
Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT

Michael Ferri, violin
Miriam Liske-Doorandish, cello
Anthony Ratinov, piano

BRONZE MEDAL ($2,000)

Pelia String Quartet
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

Heejeon Ahn, violin
Delphine Skene, violin
Sung Jin Lee, viola
Nathan Cottrell, cello

Jury members in this year's Senior String division included cellist Norman Fischer, violinist Nelson Lee, pianist Cecile Licad, and violist Joanna Mendoza.

JUNIOR STRING DIVISION

The Olive Trio.

GOLD MEDAL ($2,300)

Olive Trio
Colburn School Music Academy, Los Angeles, CA

Anaïs Feller, violin
Mira Kardan, cello
Daniel Wang, piano

SILVER MEDAL ($1,800)

Sycamore Trio
Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra Chamber Players/Franklin Pond Chamber Music, Atlanta, GA

Tobias Liu, violin
Brandon Leonard, cello
Grace Peng, piano

BRONZE MEDAL ($1,300)

Peresson String Quartet
The Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL

Katya Moeller, violin
Kelly Kim, violin
Sidney Lee, viola
Serge Kalinovsky, cello

Jury members in the Junior String division included cellist Anthony Arnone, pianist Elinor Freer, and violinist Rebecca McFaul.

New this year was the Lift Every Voice Prize ($1,500), for best performance of a piece by a historically underrepresented composer in the chamber music world. This inaugural prize focuses on works by Black, Hispanic, Latino or Latina composers. That prize went to the Sequoia Reed Quintet, from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

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

The competition was founded in 1973 by Joseph E. Fischoff and and members of the South Bend (Ind.) Chamber Music Society.

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