The Rahn Kulturfonds was founded to promote and award outstanding students of swiss music conservatoires and academies.

The Rahn Kulturfonds

The Rahn Kulturfonds has been running the Rahn Musikpreis competition for more than 40 years with the aim of supporting students at Swiss music academies.

The biennial competition is open alternately to pianists and string musicians. Since 2011, the Rahn Kulturfonds provides scholarships once a year and loans instruments to outstanding music students.

News

New date – Rahn Prizewinner Concert for piano

The Rahn Prizewinner Concert for piano should have taken place on 30 March 2020 at Tonhalle Maag. It was postponed due to the corona virus. Asuto Kitamura and Georgiana Pletea, first respectively second prize winner of the Rahn Musikpreis 2020 for piano, will perform...

Postponed – Rahn Prizewinner Concert 2020 for piano

Due to the corona virus and taking into account the current precautionary measures of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, the Rahn Prizewinner Concert for piano will unfortunately not take place on March 30, 2020. The concert will take place at a later date....

Trailer Rahn Musikpreis 2020 for piano

Recorded on January 17, 2020 at ZKO-Haus by Marcel Babazadeh, Atelier Klang & Raum.

Rahn Musikpreis 2020 for piano

The competition 2020 for piano will take place at ZKO-Haus in Zurich from Wednesday, January 15 until Friday, January 17, 2020. Further information >

Rahn Concert Continuo 2019

On 8 March 2019 the VI Rahn Concert Continuo took place in the large concert hall of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Impressions of the concert and press reviews can be found here: Impressions Press...

Rahn Concert Continuo

The VI Rahn Concert Continuo takes place for the first time in the large concert hall of the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK). Prize winners and selected scholarship holders of the Rahn Kulturfonds will perform works by F. Schubert, N. Paganini, H. Wolf, O....

Rahn concert Più – Impressions

Rahn Kulturfonds has organized its first ever Rahn Concert PIÙ. The concert is aimed at music lovers of all ages and took place on November 10, 2018 at Kaufleuten Festsaal in Zurich. Winners of the Rahn Musikpreis and scholarship holders played pieces by H....

Christmas concert

On 29 November 2018, five prizewinners and scholarship holders are performing in Zurich. The concert is organized by Swiss International Club, a partner of the Rahn Kulturfonds....

Rahn Concert Più

Rahn Kulturfonds organizes its first ever Rahn Concert PIÙ. Winners of the Rahn Musikpreis and scholarship holders will perform at the Kaufleuten Festsaal in Zurich. The concert is aimed at music lovers of all ages. Children of all ages are very welcome. A play corner...

Rahn Scholarship – Audition 2018

Rahn Kulturfonds awards scholarships worth between 4,000 and 7,000 Swiss francs since 2011 and also loans instruments to outstanding music students. The next audition takes place on September 3, 2018 in Zurich. Conditions and application... Closing date is August 23,...

Artists

All awardees.

Asuto Kitamura

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Georgiana Pletea

Prizewinner, Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Jérémie Conus

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Yilan Zhao

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Anna Štrbová

Oboe, Awardees, Wind instruments

Veronika T. – Potzner

Awardees, Percussion

Olivier Carillier

Awardees, Viola, Strings

Guillermo Ortega Santos

Saxophone, Awardees, Strings, Violoncello, Wind instruments

Luis Homedes López

Saxophone, Awardees, Wind instruments

Felix Gygli

Awardees, Vocals

Cecilia Facchini

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Zofia Grzelak

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Olga Ermakova

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Denis Linnik

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Alice Burla

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Patricia Sà Duarte

Awardees, Clarinet, Wind instruments

Elias Agsteribbe

Awardees, Wind instruments, Bassoon

Anastasia Subrakova

Awardees, Violin, Strings

Vasyl Zatsikha

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Salauat Karibayev

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Zhixiong Liu

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Sherniyaz Mussakhan

Prizewinner, Awardees, Violin, Strings

Amelia Mirella Maszonska

Prizewinner, Awardees, Violin, Strings

Eoin Ducrot

Prizewinner, Awardees, Violin, Strings

Natanael Ferreira Dos Santos

Prizewinner, Viola, Strings

Manuel Nägeli

Prizewinner, Viola, Strings

Constantin Macherel

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Min Ji Kim

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Francesco Stefanelli

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Irene Sanz Centeno

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Fabian Ziegler

Awardees, Percussion

Rennosuke Fukuda

Awardees, Violin, Strings

Leonel Matias Quinta

Awardees, Clarinet, Wind instruments

Marta Sánchez Paz

Oboe, Awardees, Wind instruments

Alfredo Ferre Martínez

Awardees, Violoncello

Iago Dominguez Eiras

Awardees, Violoncello

Klaudia Baca

Double bass, Awardees, Strings

Larisa Baghdasaryan

Awardees, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Benedek Horváth

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Chiara Opalio

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Alexandra Sikorskaya

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Nora Bertogg

Awardees, Vocals

Ara Lee

Awardees, Violin, Strings

Charlotte Woronkow

Awardees, Violin, Strings

Nadja Reich

Awardees, Strings, Violoncello

Nikolay Shugaev

Awardees, Strings, Violoncello

Miriam Prandi

Prizewinner, Awardees, Strings, Violoncello

Grigory Maximenko

Prizewinner, Viola, Strings

Rustem Monasypov

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Vanessa Hunt Russell

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Beatriz Blanco

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Simon Wiener

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Witold Moniewski

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Pavla Flámová

Awardees, Vocals

Maki Wiederkehr

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Asaki Ino

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Manuela Fuchs

Trumpet, Awardees, Wind instruments

Mari Tada

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Vladyslava Luchenko

Prizewinner, Awardees, Violin, Strings

Mi Zhou

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Konstantin Manaev

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Wies De Boevé

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Malwina Sosnowski

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Gunta Abele

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Marie Waldmannova

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Giulietta Koch

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Christoph Scheffelt

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Alexander Grytsayenko

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Mayuko Kamio

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Lionel Cottet

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Benjamin Nyffenegger

Prizewinner, Strings, Violoncello

Veit Hertenstein

Prizewinner, Viola, Strings

Samuel Alcántara

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Xu Luo

Prizewinner, Double bass, Strings

Noémie Rufer

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Iryna Krasnovska

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Hanna Holeska

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Josiane Marfurt

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Anna Reszniak

Prizewinner, Violin, Strings

Eliška Novotná

Prizewinner, Piano, Keyboard instruments

Stipendien

Scholarship

Based on the candidate’s performance, a jury of four decides on granting a scholarship and its actual amount. The scholarships range from CHF 4’000 to 7’000 per scholar.

The next audition will take place in Zurich on November 9, 2020.

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