Usedom Music Prize 2024

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Joanna SielickaHfMT master's student from Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, receives the Usedom Music Prize 2024 from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, endowed with 5000 euros. The award ceremony will take place on September 25 in the Krummin Protestant Church by the director of the Usedom Music Festival Thomas Hummel and the dramaturge Dr. Jan Brachmann.

Vita
Joanna Sielicka was born in Krakow in 1999 and began playing the piano at the age of eight. Just four years later, she became a junior student at the Münster University of Music. In addition to numerous youth prizes such as "Jugend musiziert" and the international Chopin competition for children and young people, she also received the Grotrian Steinweg Prize in honor of Clara Schumann and the Karl Heinz Kämmerling Prize. She made it to the final of the Theodor Leschetizky Competition in Hamburg in 2020.
Joanna's musical interests are very diverse and are constantly developing, which enables her to take part in various projects. One of the most formative is a recording as part of the international campaign to promote educational piano works by Polish composers "Music from Chopin's Homeland" organized by the Polish Music Publishing House (PWM Edition). Joanna is also greatly inspired by the study of historical instruments. This culminated in the opening of the 4th Chopin Festival Hamburg, the scenic concert "Frédéric and Friederike - A Relationship in Words and Notes". She has been studying at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class since October 2017 and is currently completing her master's degree.

Usedom Music Prize from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation
The Usedom Music Festival awards the Usedom Music Prize 2024 together with the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. Previous winners of the Usedom Music Prize in recent years have been violinist Hans Christian Aavik (2022) and cellist Magdalena Ceple (2023) as well as the Almadin Quartet (2010), the Signum Saxophone Quartet (2011), pianist Alexej Gorlatch (2012) and the Ensemble Berlin Counterpoint (2013), hornist Felix Klieser (2014), double bassist Katri Maria Leponiemi (2015), violinist Daniel Lozakovich (2016), cellist Emilia Lomakova (2017), saxophonist Alexander Prill (2018), hornist Tillmann Höfs (2019), baritone Konstantin Krimmel (2020) and clarinettist Žilvinas Brazauskas (2021). The Usedom Music Festival prizes are awarded to young ensembles and artists. They are characterized by outstanding musical achievements. The Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation has been supporting highly talented young artists for around 50 years by supporting institutions, awarding individual scholarships, special prizes or loaning instruments. According to the board of directors, over 13.5 million euros have been awarded for scholarships and institutional funding to date and more than 2,550 scholarship holders and prize winners have received direct support.

Usedom Music Festival
The Usedom Music Festival has been dedicated to the arts around the Baltic Sea since 1994: for three weeks from September to October, the unique sounds of the annually changing guest countries Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden attract visitors. In ancient churches, picturesque castles and villas, galleries and imperial hotels, the Usedom Music Festival showcases the musical riches of the countries and regions connected by the sea at Usedom's most exciting festival locations: be it Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's largest industrial monument, the historic power station in Peenemünde or the magnificent buildings of the imperial spas.
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