Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Music Festival 2001-2003
The Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Music Festival was initiated in 1990 and is meanwhile one of the most renowned music festivals in Europe. The Festival focuses on supporting and presenting the cream of young musicians. Highly gifted musicians from all over Europe, who are at the beginning of their musical career, are invited to take part.
Schloss Ulrichshusen
Right from the beginning the Allianz Group has effectively provided support in setting up and developing the festival. The initial preparation work for the festival has been successfully completed, so the focus is now concentrated on a main aspect of the program: sponsoring and making awards to young ensembles within the series of "Junge Elite" international chamber music concerts as well as awarding the "Allianz Prize of the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Music Festival". The organisers of the festival themselves propose to award a prize to an ensemble, which stood out through its exceptional musical performance in the previous year. The presentation of this award is combined with an invitation to the next festival. At the same time the second appearance of the prize-winning ensemble is bound up with the Allianz Concert for which the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie compiles their own program. Discourse between the prize-winners and the donator of the prize is maintained long after the festival, in order to follow the respective development of the musicians.
The Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Festival 2001 awarded the "Allianz Price 2000" to the Kungsbacka Trio, which was formed in 1997. The Swedish violinist Malin Broman, the Swedish cellist Jesper Svedberg and the English pianist Simon Crawford-Phillipps convinced the jury by their playing in perfect harmony with one another, their outstanding technique and their unusual emotional interpretation.The "Allianz Price 2001" awarded at the Festival 2002 went to the Fauré Quartett. The four musicians, who founded the piano quartet in 1995, have already made a name for themselves by winning national and international awards and by performing at festivals not only as soloists but also in the chamber music. The aim of the ensemble is also to perform less well-known works in the piano quartet literature besides the standard literature. Within the framework of the Allianz Prizewinners' Concert on 7 September, 2002 the four musicians presented their skills with works by Dvorak, Wagner and Haydn.
Verleihung des Allianz-Preises der Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2001 an das Fauré-Quartett mit Dr. Ludger Hünnekens
As a result of their convincing performance at last year's Mecklenburg-West Pomeranian Music Festival, the Echnaton string trio from Karlsruhe will receive the Allianz prize for the best ensemble in 2002 at this year's festival, the fourteenth to be held. The prize, some 10,000 euros, will be presented by the Allianz Kulturstiftung during a musical celebration on 16 August, 2003 in the Ulrichshusener Festspielscheune. The "Allianz prize for the best ensemble" is the latest of a series of successes the Echnaton Trio has to its credit since it was established in 1995. Wolfram Brandl (violin), Sebastian Krunnies (viola) and Frank-Michael Guthmann (cello) won the approbation of the public and professional musicians alike with their expressive style and their sheer pleasure in making music, combining technical perfection with an extremely high level of musicality.
Project partner: Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Musikfeste GmbH, Schwerin/Berlin / http://www.festspiele-mv.de
