Winners announced in the 2023 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition

June 20, 2023, 12:37 PM · Congratulations to the winners in the 50th annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, in which dozens of ensembles from around the world competed last month, May 12-14 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

Top winners in the strings divisions included the Oberlin Conservatory-based Poiesis Quartet, which won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal as well as the Lift Every Voice Prize in the Senior Division; and the Colchester, Vermont-based FaMa Quartet, which won the Gold Medal in the Junior Division.

Grand Prize and Gold Medal winner: The Poiesis Quartet.

Here are all the prize winners in the string divisions:

SENIOR STRING DIVISION

GRAND PRIZE ($15,000) and GOLD MEDAL ($5,000)

Poiesis Quartet
Oberlin Conservatory, Oberlin, OH

Sarah Ma, violin
Max Ball, violin
Jasper de Boor, viola
Drew Dansby, cello

SILVER MEDAL ($4,000)

Quartet Luminera
New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

Masha Lakisova, violin
Kristy Chen, violin
Njord Fossnes, viola
Davis You, cello

BRONZE MEDAL ($3,000)

Amnis Piano Quartet
Yale School of Music, New Haven, CT

Minkyung Lee, violin
Matthew McDowell, viola
Jenny Bahk, cello
Linda Lee, piano

Lift Every Voice Prize ($1,500) - for best performance of a piece by a historically underrepresented composer in the chamber music world. This year's prize focuses on works by Black, Hispanic, Latino or women composers:

Poiesis Quartet - see their performance below of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary", Mvt I Allegro:

Horszowski Trio Prize for Piano Trio ($600)

Trio Osceola
Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Adrienne Williams, violin
Sally Jung Eun Kim, cello
Da Jin Kim, piano

Jury members in this year's Senior String division included Ann Elliott-Goldschmid, Anne Epperson, Honggang Li and Keith Robinson.

JUNIOR STRING DIVISION

Junior Strings Division Gold Medal: The FaMa Quartet.

GOLD MEDAL ($2,500)

FaMa Quartet
Colchester, VT

Ella Eom, violin
Julie Kim, violin
Jasper Sewell, viola
Ari Peraza, cello

SILVER MEDAL ($2,000)

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

Ellen Zhou, violin
Clark Snavely, violin
Tristan Zhu, viola
Amelia Zitoun, cello

BRONZE MEDAL ($1,500)

Evie Quartet
Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute of the
Colburn Community School of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Kailey Yun, violin
Amy Lee, violin
Samuel Tatsuki, viola
Sam Guevara, cello

Horszowski Trio Prize for Junior Division Piano Trio ($300)

Nth Trio
Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute of the
Colburn Community School of the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, CA

Holly Lacey, violin
Nathaniel Yue, cello
Qiao Zhang, piano

Jury members in the Junior String division included Rieko Aizawa, Michael Cameron and Rebecca Henry.

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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