Maria Ioudenitch
Joseph Joachim Award Winner 2021
At the JJV 2021, Maria Ioudenitch has not only won the main prize "Joseph Joachim", but also the Chamber Music Award, the Henle Urtext Award and the Warner Classics Award. She has also been awarded for the best interpretation of the commissioned work and has received several concert engagements.
An American with a Russian heart and soul, Maria Ioudenitch was born in Balashov, Russia and grew up in Kansas City, where she studied with Ben Sayevich. She then continued her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pamela Frank, and the New England Conservatory with Miriam Fried.
Maria Ioudenitch’s recent solo engagements have included performances with the Utah Symphony, the Israel Camerata, the Kansas City Symphony, and Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra. Recent chamber music performances have taken her across South America with Roberto Diaz, and the New England area with Miriam Fried. Maria Ioudenitch was appointed Concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra for 2016-2017, ending the season with a tour through Europe featuring Strauss’s “Ein Heldenleben”. This summer, she attended the Marlboro Music Festival.
Apart from classical music, Maria Ioudenitch adores Jazz and visual art. Currently, her favorite artists are Robert Schumann (Classical), Oscar Peterson (Jazz), and Remedíos Varo (surrealist art)!
Final Round | Commissioned work and Violin Concerto
Semifinal Round 2 | Recital and String Quartet
Semifinal Round 1 | Chamber Concert
Preliminary Round 2 | Violin and Piano
Preliminary Round 1 | Solo Violin
Program
PRELIMINARY ROUND 1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for solo violin in A minor, BWV 1003
Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonata for solo violin, op. 27 No. 1
On stage: 28.09.2021, 8:00 p.m.
PRELIMINARY ROUND 2
Franz Schubert: Sonata for violin and piano in A major, D 574
Camille Saint-Saëns / Eugène Ysaÿe: Caprice d'après l'étude en forme de valse
On stage: 01.10.2021, 1:25 p.m.
Accompanied by Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich.
SEMIFINAL ROUND 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concert for violin and orchestra in D major, KV 218
Béla Bartók: Divertimento, Sz 113
On stage: 05.10.2021, 6:00 p.m.
SEMIFINAL ROUND 2
Joseph Haydn: String quartet movement
Robert Schumann: Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 – I. Ziemlich langsam
Ernest Chausson: Poème, op. 25
Daniel Ott: Double Aria
Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky: Six Romances, op. 6 No. 6 "None but the lonely heart"
Claude Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano in G minor, L 140
On stage: 07.10.2021, 3:00 p.m.
FINALROUND
Manfred Trojahn: To be played in the garden
Johannes Brahms: Concert for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 77
On stage: 10.10.2021, Final Concerts Part 2 (4:00 p.m. till 6:20 p.m.)