Winners 2008

Last Updated (Saturday, 15 November 2008 22:15) Written by Jacob Saturday, 15 November 2008 07:21

Four finalists were chosen in the first round, on Thursday November 6: Machteld den Boer, Florian Moritz, Caterina Caspari and Martin Steuber. The final was a concert by those four in De Statenzaal in Zwolle, on Friday November 7. The winners of that final:

First prize

Florian Moritz was born in 1988 in Erfurt. He had his first guitarlesson at the age of 9 with Bernd Spooren in the musicschool "Johann-Sebastian-Bach". Since 2000 he is participant of different masterclasses. Regular guitarlesson with Prof.Christiane Spannhof at the "Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar" in 2001. 2002 he became a pupil of the special musicschool "Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar"; after 2 years (2004) Prof.Jürgen Rost became his teacher. In 2006 he received a Stipendium, "Artists of tomorrow", from Freistaat Thüringen. In the same year he started his studies with Prof.Rost in Weimar until september 2008. Currently he is student of Prof.Carlo Marchione in Maastricht.

Florian had masterclasses with (a.o.): Prof. Thomas Müller-Pering, Carlo Domeniconi, Remi Boucher,Scott Tennant,Gerhard Reichenbach.

He regularly plays in chamber music ensembles (guitar/violin, guitar/piano, orchestra etc.)

prizes etc:
2000 1st price Bad Sulzaer Musiktage
2003 1st prices in all 3 rounds of "Jugend musiziert"
2005 2nd price "7th international guitar competition Anna-Amalia Weimar"
2006 1st prices in all 3 rounds of "Jugend musiziert", 1st price "Roland-Zimmer Youthcompetition", Concertjourney to Panjim,Goa with recital in kala academy hall(Goaen guitar festival), Concerts with "Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester" in Frankfurt/Oder und Jenaer Philharmony

Second prize

Machteld den Boer (1988) began with guitar lessons at the age of 9 in the Music School in Diest with Myriam Vanheyst and Christine Van Roey. When she was 15, she was selected by YoTaM, an organisation that gave young people the chance to develop their musical skills with the support of the Flemish Government. She took part in music courses in Vught with Roland Broux and guitar festivals in Koblenz, Enschede and Zwolle. There she had been taught by Alvaro Pierri, Dale Kavanagh, Marcin Dylla, Atanas Ourkouzounov, Hopkinson Smith, Thomas Müller-Pering, Carlo Marchione, Benjamin Verdery, Matthew Greif, Scott Tennant ao. In 2006 she won a first price in the national competition Axion Classics. In the same year she started studying at the Lemmensinstitute in Leuven with Roland Broux.