International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Quadrennial classical violin competition held in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

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International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Status| Active
Genre| Competition
Frequency| Every four years
Location(s)| Indianapolis, Indiana
Country| USA
Inaugurated| 1982 (1982)
Founder| Josef Gingold
Most recent| 2022
Member| World Federation of International Music Competitions
Website| www.violin.org

The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) is a classical violin competition which takes place once every four years in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1] Since its founding in 1982, "The Indianapolis" has been regarded as the Olympics of the Violin, and dubbed "the ultimate violin contest" by the Chicago Tribune.[2]

## History

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Founded in 1982 under the artistic guidance of Josef Gingold[3] and Founding Director Thomas J. Beczkiewicz, the IVCI became recognized by the World Federation of International Music Competitions and has been a member of that federation since 1984.[4] Gingold, an esteemed professor of violin at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, had served on the juries of every major violin competition in the world and became the IVCI's Founding Artistic Director. In 1994, artistic leadership passed to one of his most well-known pupils, Jaime Laredo, who retains the title of Jury President to this day.[5]

For the 10th Quadrennial Competition in September 2018, the prize for the Gold Medal winner included a cash prize of US$30,000, a 24K Gold Medal, and a recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium.[6] The Gold, Silver and bronze medalists receive career management for four years, and Laureates have the opportunity to use one of several instruments owned by the IVCI, including the 1683 "ex-Gingold" Stradivarius violin.[7]

Josef Gingold, IVCI Founding Artistic Director (1982)

## Competition

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10th Quadrennial Competition Participants - August/September 2018

The competition is typically composed of four parts:[8]

* Preliminaries (40 participants). The first round consists of a 45-minute recital, concentrating on J.S. Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin, violin sonatas by Mozart, plus two of Paganini's 24 Caprices for Solo Violin or Paganiniana by Nathan Milstein. Each participant must also perform one encore work.[9]
* Semi-Finals (16 participants). Each participant performs a 75-minute recital consisting of any violin sonata by Beethoven, plus two additional works (typically with piano accompaniment). Each participant is given a list of over sixty works from which to choose. Included in this round is a compulsory work, commissioned specifically for each Competition.[10]
* Classical Finals (6 participants). Each Finalist performs a violin concerto by Mozart or Haydn, plus an encore work by Fritz Kreisler, performed with a chamber orchestra.[11]
* Finals (6 participants). Each Finalist performs one of 21 major violin concertos with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.[12]

## Commissioned Works

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Year[13] | Work Title  | Composer

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1982  | Improvvisazione | Joonas Kokkonen
1986  | For Solo Violin | Leon Kirchner
1990  | Rhapsody and Prayer | Georges Rochberg
1994  | Subito | Witold Lutoslawski
1998  | Autumn Music | Ned Rorem
2002  | As Night Falls on Barjeantane | Richard Danielpour
2006  | A Night at the Chinese Opera | Bright Sheng
2010  | String Force | Joan Tower
2014  | Fantasy for Solo Violin | Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
2018  | Suite No. 3 for Solo Violin  | William Bolcom

## Past Winners (Laureates)

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Year  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze  | Fourth  | Fifth  | Sixth

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2022[14] | Sirena Huang | Julian Rhee | Minami Yoshida | Claire Wells | SooBeen Lee | Joshua Brown
2018[15] | / Richard Lin |  Risa Hokamura |  Luke Hsu |  Anna Lee  |  Ioana Cristina Goicea | / Shannon Lee
2014  |  Jinjoo Cho |  Tessa Lark |  Ji Young Lim |  Dami Kim |  Yoo Jin Jang |  Ji Yoon Lee
2010  | / Clara-Jumi Kang |  Soyoung Yoon |  Benjamin Beilman |  Haoming Xie |  Antal Szalai |  Andrey Baranov
2006  |  Augustin Hadelich |  Simone Lamsma |  Celeste Golden |  Yura Lee |  Ye-Eun Choi |  Bella Hristova
2002  |  Barnabás Kelemen |  Sergey Khachatryan |  Soovin Kim |  Frank Huang |  Susie Park |  Alina Pogostkina
1998  |  Judith Ingolfsson |  Liviu Prunaru |  Ju-Young Baek |  Svetlin Roussev |  Andrew Haveron |  Bin Huang
1994  |  Juliette Kang |  Stefan Milenkovich |  David Chan |  Jaakko Kuusisto |  Michiko Kamiya |  Robin Sharp
1990  |  Pavel Berman |  Marco Rizzi |  Ivan Chan |  Virginie Robilliard |  David Kim |  Martin Beaver
1986  |  Kyoko Takezawa |  Leonidas Kavakos |  Andrés Cárdenes |  Chin Kim |  Sungsic Yang |  Annick Roussin
1982  |  Mihaela Martin |  Ida Kavafian |  Yuval Yaron |  Olivier Charlier |  Nai-Yuan Hu |  Yuriko Naganuma

From the competition website.[16]

## Jury Members

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Year  | Jury President  | Jury Members

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1982  | Josef Gingold | Michael Colgrass, Miriam Fried, Franco Gulli, Irving Kolodin, Jaime Laredo, Raymond Gallois Montbrun, Igor Ozim, Henry Roth, Hidetaro Suzuki, Zvi Zeitlin
1986  | Josef Gingold | Henryk Szeryng (Vice President), Michèle Auclair, Dorothy DeLay, Ilona Fehér, Stefan Gheorghiu, Franco Gulli, Yfrah Neaman, Igor Ozim, Ruggerio Ricci, Hidetaro Suzuki
1990  | Josef Gingold | Dorothy DeLay, Pavel Kogan, Joonas Kokkonen, Mihaela Martin*, Elmar Oliveira, Igor Ozim, Aaron Rosand, Josef Suk, Hidetaro Suzuki, Tibor Varga
1994  | Jaime Laredo | Pierre Amoyal, Tuomas Haapanen, Ida Kavafian*, Cho-Liang Lin, Igor Oistrakh, Igor Ozim, György Pauk, Hidetaro Suzuki
1998  | Jaime Laredo | Pierre Amoyal, Franco Gulli, Ida Kavafian*, Young Uck Kim, Malcolm Lowe, Igor Oistrakh, Ruggiero Ricci, Kyoko Takezawa*
2002  | Jaime Laredo | Olivier Charlier*, Tuomas Haapanen, Ida Kavafian*, Mikhail Kopelman, Cho-Liang Lin, Malcolm Lowe, György Pauk, Kyoko Takezawa*
2006  | Jaime Laredo | Pierre Amoyal, Pamela Frank, Rodney Friend, Cho-Liang Lin, Malcolm Lowe, Igor Oistrakh†, Joel Smirnoff, Kyoko Takezawa*
2010  | Jaime Laredo | Pamela Frank, Rodney Friend, Yuzuko Horigome, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Boris Kuschnir, Cho-Liang Lin, Mihaela Martin*, Joel Smirnoff
2014  | Jaime Laredo | Miriam Fried, Dong-Suk Kang, Boris Kuschnir, Cho-Liang Lin, Philip Setzer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Kyoko Takezawa*, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
2018  | Jaime Laredo | Pamela Frank, Rodney Friend, Dong-Suk Kang, Cho-Liang Lin, Mihaela Martin*, Dmitri Sitkovetski, Arnold Steinhardt, Kyoko Takezawa*

* IVCI Laureate

†Unable to attend

## Juried Exhibition of Student Art (JESA)

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Source:[17]

The Juried Exhibition of Student Art (JESA) is one of the most far-reaching multi-disciplinary art projects for grades one through twelve in the state of Indiana. Held in conjunction with the Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the 2018 JESA involved over 26,600 school children and 169 art teachers throughout the state. JESA is one of the few programs that awards a cash prize to each school or sponsoring organization of the Grand Award Winners as well as to the students. The IVCI awarded $10,000 in prizes to outstanding artists and their schools or sponsoring organizations in 2018.

The program was designed to affirm the highest standards of visual arts; to encourage the pursuit of visual arts as a career; to help integrate the disciplines of the performing and the visual arts; to increase community support for the arts; and to heighten student awareness of the IVCI and its cultural importance to the entire state.

## References

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1. ^ "International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". IVCI Main Website. April 28, 2020. Archived from the original on July 3, 2014.
2. ^ Gingrich, John. "MusicalAmerica - Press Releases". www.musicalamerica.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
3. ^ "Josef Gingold". International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Retrieved 23 June 2014.
4. ^ "World Federation of International Music Competitions", Wikipedia, 2019-07-01, retrieved 2020-04-28
5. ^ "Famed violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo to join IU School of Music faculty : Jacobs School of Music". info.music.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
6. ^ "Competition: International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
7. ^ "Prizes | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
8. ^ "Event Schedule 2018 | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
9. ^ "Event Schedule 2018 | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
10. ^ "Event Schedule 2018 | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
11. ^ "Event Schedule 2018 | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
12. ^ "Event Schedule 2018 | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
13. ^ "Commissioned Works | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
14. ^ Channel, The Violin (2022-09-25). "BREAKING | Sirena Huang Awarded 1st Prize at Indianapolis Violin Competition". World's Leading Classical Music Platform. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
15. ^ IVCI Winners Announced. International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
16. ^ "Laureates | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
17. ^ "2018 Juried Exhibition of Student Art | International Violin Competition of Indianapolis". www.violin.org. Retrieved 2020-04-28.

## External links

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* Official Competition Website

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States

Academics|

* CiNii

Other|

* MusicBrainz series
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