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Sirena Huang of the U.S. Wins Gold Medal in Indianapolis Competition
INDIANAPOLIS – Sirena Huang has won the Gold Medal in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis.
Here are the laureates:
- Gold Medal ($75,000): Sirena Huang, 28, of the United States
- Silver Medal ($30,000): Julian Rhee, 22, of the United States
- Bronze Medal ($15,000): Minami Yoshida, 24, of Japan
- Fourth Place ($10,000): Claire Wells, 21, of United States
- Fifth Place ($8,000): SooBeen Lee, 21, of South Korea
- Sixth Place ($6,000): Joshua Brown, 22, of the United States
SPECIAL PRIZES (announced Sunday)
- Best Performance of a Bach Work ($1,000): Sirena Huang
- Best Performance of a Work by Paganini, Ernst or Milstein ($1,000): SooBeen Lee
- Best Performance of a Mozart Sonata or Schubert Sonatina
Violinist ($1,000): Sirena Huang
Pianist ($1,000): Melivia Raharjo - Best Performance of an Encore Piece ($1,000): Sirena Huang
- Best Performance of a Beethoven Sonata
Violinist ($1,000): Sirena Huang
Pianist (1,000): Melivia Raharjo - Best Performance of "Incontro" by John Harbison (commissioned work) ($1,000): Sirena Huang
- Best Performance of an Ysaÿe Sonata ($1,000): Claire Wells
- Best Performance of a Violin-Piano Sonata (other than Beethoven) from the Semi-Finals ($1,000): Sirena Huang
- Best Performance of a Kreisler Encore ($1,000): Sirena Huang
- Best Performance of a Classical Concerto ($2,500): Minami Yoshida
- Best Performance of a Concerto in the Finals ($5,000): Sirena Huang
All six Laureates will also receive the opportunity to use one of several concert instruments in the IVCI collection, including the 1683 “ex-Gingold” Stradivari violin, until the next Quadrennial Competition in 2026.
The jury for this year's competition includes Jury President Jaime Laredo, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Ivan Chan, Jinjoo Cho, Yuzuko Horigome, Dong-Suk Kang, Cho-Liang Lin, Mihaela Martin, and Liviu Prunaru.
Founded in 1982 by Josef Gingold, Indianapolis has hosted ten competitions, occurring every every four years. This year's preliminaries began on Sept. 9 with 39 violinists between the ages of 19-29, representing 13 countries across five continents.
You can watch archived performances from the Indianapolis Competition on this page.
You might also like:
- REVIEW: 2022 Indianapolis Competition Concerto Finals Day 1: Joshua Brown, Julian Rhee, Minami Yoshida
- REVIEW: 2022 Indianapolis Competition Classical Finals Day 2: Claire Wells, SooBeen Lee and Sirena Huang
- REVIEW: 2022 Indianapolis Competition Classical Finals Day 1: Joshua Brown, Julian Rhee, Minami Yoshida
- Our Complete Coverage of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, past and present
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