Photo: Tam Lan Truong
Spanish violinist María Dueñas has won the €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival (RMF) Lotto Prize. According to the RMF, the prize is ‘recognition and incentive in equal measure, and should help to bridge the difficult gap into the ranks of truly great artists’.
Dueñas, who is 18, studies with Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She will receive the prize at a concert at Schloss Johannisberg, close to Frankfurt, on 2 July.
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The 18–year–old violinist María Dueñas has been awarded the 1st prize at the Getting to Carnegie Competition 2021. She receives $5,000.
Born in Granada, Spain, Dueñas is currently studying with pedagogue Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Graz. She is a former 1st prize winner of the Zhuhai Mozart Internation Competition (China 2017) and the Vladimir Spivakov International Competition (Russia, 2018), among others; and was named ‘Artist of the Month’ by Musical America in September 2019.
The Getting to Carnegie Competition emerged out of a musical experiment nearly seven years ago, when pianist Julian Gargiulo invited musicians from the world’s top international conservatories to compete for a place on the Carnegie Hall’s stage with him. It is nicknamed, by some, as ‘the Hunger Games of classical music’.
Chinese musician sings friendship song in German By Chen Nan | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-01-01 15:50 Share CLOSE Gui Nan records songs written for people battling COVID-19 in a studio in Beijing in May.[Photo provided to China Daily]
Earlier this year, Thomas Rabe, the grandson of John Rabe, once called the Schindler of China , reached out for help from Germany during the COVID-19 outbreak, and many people in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, took immediate action to provide the needed medical supplies.
John Rabe was a businessman from Hamburg. Together with other foreigners, he helped to set up the Nanjing Safety Zone to protect Chinese civilians from Japanese troops during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-1945).
Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo
Grete Wiesenthal, a ballet-trained Viennese dancer, made the waltz modern and a vehicle for solo expression.
Waltz with me: Grete Wiesenthal, in Vienna, around 1908.Credit.Rudolf Jobst/Österreichisches Theatermuseum, via Imagno and Getty Images
By Meryl Cates
Dec. 24, 2020
Waltzing can go on for hours in an endless rotation, as partners coiled in each other’s arms whisk around a brimming dance floor. It requires a significant amount of physical contact, which is why the waltz was considered somewhat of a guilty pleasure until the early 19th century, when its popularity finally overthrew propriety. And now during the coronavirus pandemic close partner dancing raises eyebrows again.