Music competition of the Danube Festival 2024: Oboe

In co-operation with the Ulm Music School

Background
The Danube region symbolises the goal of a successful reunification of Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain and embodies the potential and richness of peaceful unity in diversity like no other European region. Even the extreme political challenges that the continent is currently facing as a result of Russia's war of aggression against a state in this region do not lead us to lose sight of this goal.

The instrumental competition, which was first held in summer 2012, has developed into a successful and central player in the young academic music scene in the Danube countries and an important part of the Danube Festival in recent years.

Students can only be nominated and registered by their universities or colleges. Individual applications to the organiser will not be accepted. Registered participants should not be older than 30 at the time of the competition and must be enrolled as students. In order to ensure equal competition conditions, piano accompaniment will be provided by the organiser without exception.

Previous competitions
2012 Trumpet; Jury chair: Helmut Erb (Germany); First prize: István Siket, Budapest
2014 Piano; Jury chair: Tamás Vásáry (Hungary); First prize: Polina Sasko, Kiev
2016 Violin; Jury chair: Alexander Balanescu (Romania); First prize: Katarina Kutnar, Zagreb, Dusan Panajotovic, Belgrade
2018 Clarinet; Jury chair: Fabio Di Casola (Switzerland); First prize: Nemorino Scheliga, Stuttgart
2020 festival cancelled due to the Covid pandemic
2022 Cello; Jury chair: Young-Chang Cho (South Korea); First prize: Stefan Cazacu, Bucharest

Invited institutions and conditions of participation
Each of the following partners was invited to nominate a maximum of 2 candidates.
The number of participants is therefore limited to a maximum of 20 people.

• Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest / Hungary
• Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Bratislava / Slovakia
• Academy of Music, Zagreb / Croatia
• University of the Arts, Belgrade / Serbia
• National Academy of Music, Sofia / National Academy of Music Plovidiv / Bulgaria
• National University of Music, Bucharest / Romania
• National Academy of Music, Lviv / National Academy of Music, Kiev / Ukraine
• Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts, Chisinau / Moldova
• Anton Bruckner University, Linz / Austria
• State University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart / Germany

Students can only be nominated and registered by their universities or colleges. Individual applications to the organiser will not be accepted. Registered participants should not be older than 30 at the time of the competition and must be enrolled as students. In order to ensure equal competition conditions, piano accompaniment will be provided by the organiser without exception.

Jury and prizes
The three-member jury of internationally recognised experts will be chaired by Martin Frutiger (Switzerland) in 2024. Clara Dent-Bogányi (Austria) and Lajos Lencsés (Hungary) have been appointed to the jury alongside him. The jury will award 3 prizes, endowed with EUR 3,000 / EUR 2,000 / EUR 1,000. In addition, the 1st prize winner will be invited to a public concert with the Ulm Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra at the next competition in 2026.

The competition will be held over two days. After the first day (8 July), the jury will decide on a shortlist of a maximum of 10 candidates for the second round on 9 July. On 10 July, all participants will take part in the final concert with the 2022 Cello Prize winner.

Click on the picture for information about the jury and piano accompaniment

Click here for information on this year's participants

Dates of the competition (public event)* 8-9 July 2024
Award ceremony and prizewinners' concert (public event)* 10 July 2024 at 6.00 pm

* The public events take place on the premises of the Ulm Music School (Marktplatz 19, 89073 Ulm). Admission is free. Exact times will be announced in the media and on this website in good time