International Fritz Kreisler Competition Explained

The International Fritz Kreisler Competition is a violin competition dedicated to the memory of violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler.

Founded in 1979, it is carried out every four years in Vienna, Austria. It is limited to violinists of or under 30 years of age. To avoid favoritism, the members of the jury may not enter their own students in the contest.^[1]

Required repertoire

Preliminaries

• J. S. Bach: the first two movements of a solo sonata, the first four movements of a partita, or the Ciaccona (of the Second Partita)
  • A caprice by Paganini, Wieniawski, or Ernst F. Kreisler: Recitative and Scherzo-Caprice

Semifinal

• G. Tartini

Devil's Trill Sonata with the Kreisler cadenza or

• F. Kreisler

Praeludium and Allegro or

• F. Kreisler

Variations on a Theme by Corelli

• A composition for violin and piano of the "Viennese school" from the 18th to the 20th century (Viennese classic, Brahms, R. Strauss, Schönberg, Webern, Krenek, etc.)
• A modern composition of the 20th century (violin/piano or violin solo) from a composer of the participant's home country
• A virtuoso composition of free choice (violin/piano or violin solo)
• One of Fritz Kreisler's short compositions or arrangements as an encore (e.g. Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Spanish Dance, Syncopation etc.)

Final

A violin concerto of the 19th or 20th century (the earliest accepted being Beethoven) with a Kreisler cadenza if possible

Most of these pieces must be played by memory.

Finalists, laureates and winners

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1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
2022	Guido Sant'Anna	Michael Shaham Rino Yoshimoto		Raphael Nussbaumer	Amira Abouzahra	Elli Choi
2018	Milan Al-Ashab	Alice Lee	Paul Kropfitsch	Soo-Hyun Park	Natsumi Tsuboi	Rino Yoshimoto
2014	Jan Mracek	William Hagen	Emmanuel Tjeknavorian	Danfeng Shen	Ioana Cristina Goicea	Robyn Bollinger	Shuichi Okada
2010		Ekaterina Frolova	Aylen Pritchin	Yura Lee	Shiori Terauchi	/ Eugene Nakamura	Ilja Marinkovic
2005		Leticia Munoz Moreno	Kyoko Yonemoto	Antal Szalai	Andreas Janke	Lucja Madziar
2000			Alexis Cardenas	Judy Kang	Akiko Ono	Yukiko Ishibashi	Ilja Marinkovic
1996
1992	Florin Croitoru					Natalia Lhikopoi
1983	Maria Bachmann	Marc Daniel van Biemen
1979	Dmitri Sitkovetsky	Hiro Kurosaki	Shizuka Ishikawa	Gabriel Croitoru	Mitcho Dimitrov

External links

• http://www.fritzkreisler.com

Notes and References

1. http://www.thestrad.com/cpt-latests/czech-violinist-jan-mraek-wins-international-fritz-kreisler-competition/ Czech violinist Jan Mraek wins International Fritz Kreisler Competition