The 2024 Winners Tour

The 2024 Winners Tour

Date: 24 Oct 2024 - 18 Nov 2024

The 2024 Winners Tour

Presented by the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand, the Auckland Philharmonia and Piano+. 

One stage. Two international winners.

The Sydney International Piano Competition and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition are the most prestigious and celebrated international competitions in our region. Both competitions crown winners of outstanding promise and star power. 2023 was an exceptional year for both events, producing two remarkable winners in Jeonghwan Kim (piano) and Yeyeong “Jenny” Jin (violin).

Jenny will commence her tour with a concerto engagement with the Auckland Philharmonia, before joining with Sydney International Piano Competition winner Jeonghwan Kim and embarking on a 12-venue recital tour across New Zealand and Australia.

The Winners Tour our brings together two virtuosic soloists of bright subtlety and emotional depth in concerts centered on one of the most beloved instrumental combinations in music.

Jenny Jin

2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner

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Jenny Jin

2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner

2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition winner, Yeyeong Jenny Jin hails from South Korea.

In addition to this first prize place at last year’s competition, Jenny was also named as the winner of the Chamber Music Prize, donated by Frances Bell and was the recipient of the Sheila Smith Prize, a three-year loan of an exquisite Domenico Montagnana violin, c1735 – 39, facilitated through the Rare Violins of New York Consortium. She has also won top prizes at the 2022 Zhuhai International Violin Competition and the 2020 Stulberg International String Competition.

Jenny started her violin studies at the age of two and was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at the age of nine, studying with the renowned pedagogue Ida Kavafian. Jenny currently attends The Juilliard School as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, studying with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin.

Jeonghwan Kim

2023 Sydney International Piano Competition winner

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Jeonghwan Kim

2023 Sydney International Piano Competition winner

Also from South Korea, Jeonghwan Kim was the winner of the 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition, where he received the first prize along with two special prizes; the Best Overall Concerto Prize and a prize for his performance of Bartok’s second piano concerto.

Jeonghwan began his piano studies at the age of six, winning a number a comopetitions which led to his acceptance into the Seoul Arts Center Academy for Young Talented Musicians at nine years old. He moved to Berlin at 11 years old, and has studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in the class of Professor Konrad Maria Engel since 20q7.

In 2019,  Jeonghwan won the Aarhus International Piano Competition in Denmark, prompting immediate Invitations to perform with the Aarhus and Odense Symphony Orchestras.

In 2022, he was awarded first prize at the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy competition in Berlin, and the audience prize at the Sendai International Piano Competition.

Jeonghwan has given concerts in major halls in Berlin, Weimar, Hamburg, and Aarhus, among others.

Programme

Giuseppe Tartini                            Devil’s Trill Sonata
Béla Bartók                                    Three Burlesques, Op 8
Eugéne-Auguste Ysaye                Sonata No 5
Henryk Wieniawski                      Polonaise de concert, Op 4

Interval

Michael Norris                               Waipounamu [1] or
Dame Gillian Whitehead             Bright Silence [2]
Frédéric Chopin                             Andante spinato and grand polonaise brillante, Op 22
Camille Saint-Saëns                     Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 75

[1] Invercargill, Nelson, Christchurch, New Plymouth, Wellington, Sydney, Melbourne
[2] Palmerston North, Hawkes Bay, Hamilton, Queenstown, Dunedin, Wellington

Date
24th Oct 2024 - 18th Nov 2024
Name
The 2024 Winners Tour
Location
Nationwide

Tours dates and tickets

day date location time venue details
Thursday Oct-24 Auckland 7.30pm Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 'Strassburg' Tickets
Sunday Oct-27 Palmerston North 7.30pm St Peters Recital Programme Tickets
Tuesday Oct-29 Hawke's Bay 7.30pm MTG Recital Programme Tickets
Wednesday Oct-30 Hamilton 7.30pm GAPA Recital Programme Tickets
Thursday Oct-31 Invercargill 7.30pm Civic Recital Programme Tickets
Friday Nov-01 Nelson 7.30pm NCMA Recital Programme Tickets
Sunday Nov-03 Christchurch 7.30pm The Piano Recital Programme Tickets
Monday Nov-04 Queenstown 7.30pm The Lodge, The Hill's Home Recital Programme Tickets
Tuesday Nov-05 Dunedin 7.30pm Glenroy Recital Programme Tickets
Friday Nov-08 New Plymouth 7.30pm 4th Wall Recital Programme Tickets
Saturday Nov-09 Wellington 7.30pm St Andrews Recital Programme Tickets
Sunday Nov-10 Auckland 7.30pm Concert Chamber, Auckland Town Hall Recital Programme Tickets
Saturday Nov-16 Sydney 7.30pm Verbrugghen Hall Recital Programme Tickets
Monday Nov-18 Melbourne 7.00pm Melbourne Recital Centre Recital Programme Tickets

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