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Competition 2023

The next competition will take place on 25/26 November 2023 at the Lucerne School of Music.

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About the competition

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Since 1974, the ORPHEUS Swiss Chamber Music Competition has been honouring outstanding chamber music ensembles every year. Around 800 prize-winners have been supported so far - many of them belong nowadays to the Swiss, European and worldwide elite. Pro Helvetia plays an important and the musical genre concerning expanding role, enabling the three first prize winners to commission a composition. In recent years, around thirty new works have been created that way. Since 2011, the prize-winners concerts have taken place at the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden founded specifically for this purpose. Since 2018, the Musikdorf Ernen has also included selected ensembles in its "Newcomers" series. Further organizers are constantly including ORPHEUS prize-winning ensembles in their concert series: at the Zunftkonzerte Zurich, Piano Trio Fest Bern, at the Zimmermannhaus Brugg series and the Society for Music and Literature Kreuzlingen. The legal seat of the ORPHEUS association is in Zurich.

Ensembles

It is important to us to follow and make public the further development of the prizewinner ensembles. We need for this the cooperation of the ensembles and the public. You find a link to the successful ensembles and news from their careers below.

Ensemble
Trio BasileaTrio ZarathoustraTrio ArchaiSaxophone & Percussion DuoNemesis QuartetSpirea QuartetTrio ChagallTrio ZeitgeistHelix TrioQuatuor AmapolaOpus Five QuintetAtenea QuartetModulor QuartetMoser String QuartetDavidoff Trio

Composers

Thanks to the continuous cooperation with the Swiss Cultural Foundation Pro Helveta, a number of young composers with appreciation for chamber music is growing along with the ensembles. We are happy to follow and show also their further developments.

Ensemble
Asia AhmetjanovaDominic RöthlisbergerMarylène MüllerGaudenz WiggerRahel ZimmermannJean-Sélim AbdelmoulaMauro HertigPatricia MeierVerena WeinmannAlsu NigmatulinaMaximilian WhitcherKeitaro TakahashiLukas StammSilvan LoherNathanael GublerNemanja RadivojevicAram HovannisyanLéo Albisetti
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