Lionel_Tertis_International_Viola_Competition Knowpia

The Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition is an international music competition for viola players established in 1980 to honor the memory of the English viola virtuoso Lionel Tertis. This triennial event is held at the Erin Arts Centre, Port Erin, Isle of Man. Participants are of any nationality and are under 30 years of age.

The 13th Lionel Tertis International Festival was held from 6 to 13 April 2019, and attracted 107 entries from around the world.^[1]

Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition edit

No.	Year	1st Prize	2nd Prize	3rd Prize	Jurists / Notes
13	2019	Paul Vincent Laraia III	Yuchen Lu	Paul Adrien Zientara	George Caird (Chairman), William Coleman, Carol Rodland, Danusha Waskiewicz, Mikhail Zemtsov
12	2016	Timothy Ridout	Manuel Vioque-Judde	Wenhong Luo	George Caird (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Wing Ho, Garth Knox, Thomas Riebl
11	2013	Ziyu Shen	Kei Tojo	Matthew Lipman (tie) Shuangshuang Liu (tie)	Brian Hawkins (Chairman), Betil Başeğmezler, Yuri Bashmet, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Samuel Rhodes, Jean Sulem, Hong-Mei Xiao
10	2010	Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt	Kyoungmin Park	Veit Hertenstein	Christopher Yates (Chairman), Garfield Jackson, Tatjana Masurenko, Hartmut Rohde, Simon Rowland-Jones, Pierre-Henri Xuereb, Su Zhen
9	2006	David Kim	Peijun Xu	/ Ewa Grzywna	John Wallace (Chairman), Vladimír Bukač, Michael Kugel, Kenta Matsumi, Hariolf Schlichtig, Roger Tapping
8	2003	Yuval Gotlibovich	Maxim Rysanov	Maya Rasooly	John Wallace (Chairman), Atar Arad, Yuri Bashmet, Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Martin Outram, Lars Anders Tomter
7	2000	— not awarded —	Agathe Blondel (tie) Andrei Oussov (tie)	Arie Schachter	Howard Snell (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Sally Beamish, Masao Kawasaki, Hartmut Lindemann, Bruno Pasquier, Christopher Wellington 4th Prize: Rebecca Jones
6	1997	Roland Glassl	Steve Larson [1]	Mikhail Bereznitsky	Philip Jones (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Thérèse-Marie Gilissen, Lubomír Malý, Yizhak Schotten, Paul Silverthorne
5	1994	Gilad Karni	Kenta Matsumi	Scott Lee	Philip Jones (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Kazuhide Isomura, Michael Kugel, Paul Neubauer, John White
4	1991	— not awarded —	Tomoko Ariu (tie) Andra Darzins (tie)	Esther Geldard	Sir David Lumsden (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Harry Danks, Jerzy Kosmala, Milan Škampa
3	1988	Hsin-Yun Huang	Jane Atkins	Jean-Eric Soucy	Sir David Lumsden (Chairman), Yuri Bashmet, Harry Danks, Paul Hindmarsch, Thomas Riebl, Emanuel Vardi
2	1984	Cynthia Phelps	Paul Coletti	/ Carla-Maria Rodrigues	Lady Evelyn Barbirolli (Chairman), Paul Cropper, Hirofumi Fukai, Alfred Lipka, Donald McInnes, Simon Streatfeild
1	1980	Paul Neubauer	/ Kim Kashkashian	— not awarded —	Gerald McDonald (Chairman), Harry Danks, Paul Doktor, Csaba Erdélyi, Piero Farulli, Milan Škampa

Required composition edit

A compulsory work to be performed by all competitors is commissioned (or selected) for each competition.

2019 – Canto for viola solo (2018) by Roxanna Panufnik
2016 – fenodyree for viola solo (2015) by Stuart MacRae
2013 – 6 Sorano Variants for viola solo (2012) by Peter Maxwell Davies; published by Boosey & Hawkes ^[2]
2010 – Petite Sonatine 1 for viola solo (2009) by Roger Steptoe; published by Editions BIM ^[3]
2006 – Darkness Draws In for viola solo, Op. 102 (2005) by David Matthews; published by Faber Music Ltd.
2003 – Through a Limbeck for viola solo (2002) by John Woolrich; published by Faber Music Ltd.
2000 – Pennillion for viola solo (1998) by Sally Beamish; available through the Scottish Music Centre; This work was selected, not commissioned.
1997 – Rondel for viola solo (1996) by Richard Rodney Bennett; published by Novello & Co.
1994 – Odd Man Out for viola solo (1994) by Michael Berkeley; published by Oxford University Press
1991 – February Sonatina for viola solo (1990) by John McCabe; published by Novello & Co.
1988 – Tides of Mananan for viola solo, Op. 64 (1988) by Paul Patterson; published by Josef Weinberger
1984 – Concerto for viola and orchestra, Op. 131 (1983) by Wilfred Josephs; published by Mornington Music Ltd. / Novello & Co.
1980 – Concerto No. 2 in G major for viola and orchestra (1979) by Gordon Jacob; published by Boosey & Hawkes

References edit

Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition
White, John (2006). Lionel Tertis The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola, 362–365.

^ "The Erin Arts Centre :: Tertis Viola Competition". www.erinartscentre.com. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
^ 2013 work from Boosey & Hawkes
^ Roger Steptoe website