HBW cultural award

Die PreisträgerInnen

2017 winner

Julia Haagen - Cello

Julia Hagen, born in Salzburg in 1995, began playing cello at the age of 5. She took cello lessons with Detlef Mielke, Enrico Bronzi, Reinhard Latzko, Gautier Capucon, and Heinrich Schiff.

Julia was awarded the "Prima la Musica" first prize and special prize several times. She won the 2010 international cello competition in Liezen, and received the ESTA special prize at the Brahms competition in 2014.

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2017 winner

Elisabeth Pratscher - Sopran

The Austrian soprano was taught by Julia Bauer-Huppmann at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, and went on to improve her skills in master classes with Kurt Widmer, Edith Lienbacher, Paul Hamburger, Gerd Uecker, and David Lutz. She gathered her first experiences on stage as part of a classical dance training.

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2015 winner

Con Moto - String quartet

The four young musicians of the Con Moto string quartet first met in Hanna Widl's chamber music class at the Beethoven Music School in Mödling, Lower Austria.

They won first prizes at the federal competition "Prima la musica" several times, both as soloists and as a quartet. In 2009, they were invited to perform at the Charles Hennen Concours in Heerlend in the Netherlands. In 2012 and 2013, they won a scholarship with the International Summer Academy (ISA) PragWienBudapest organised by the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, where they received lessons by Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet), Evgenia Epstein (Aviv Quartet), Petr Prause (Talich Quartet) and Miguel da Silva (Quatuor Ysaye).

In 2012, Con Moto accepted an invitation to perform "Introduction and Allegro" by Edward Elgar in four concerts together with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Lower Austria under Ernst Kovacic. In November 2013, they staged a concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus as part of the Musica Juventutis series. The young quartet has already performed at concerts in Malta, South Tyrol, Germany, and the Netherlands. They received the HBW cultural award in 2015, and they also performed at the international Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt during the same year.

2014 winner

Elisabeth Waglechner - Piano

Elisabeth Waglechner was born in 1997 in Pitten, Lower Austria, where she also currently lives. She began taking music lessons at the Franz Schubert Music School at the age of five, and received her first piano lesson when she was seven.

She is being taught by Alma Sauer in a course for the highly gifted at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts since 2009. In 2013, she changed to the class of Christopher Hinterhuber as part of her preparation course. She also attended a recorder course for the highly gifted at the University from 2010 to 2013. She won the first prize at the regional and federal "Prima la Musica" competitions a total of 16 times, both as a soloist and in an ensemble. In 2012, she won the special prize for solo piano in the Raiffeisen Werbung competition. At the 2nd international Takacs Competition in Oberschützen in 2012, Elisabeth Waglechner received the second prize.

Preisträger 2013

Martin Dajka - Trumpet

Born in Debrecen, Hungary, on 25 April 1996.
Dajka began studying music at the Tizafüred music school in 2006, and went on to attend the Leó Weiner Music School in Budapest.

2013: International Trumpet Competition in Debrecen, 2^nd place
2012: International Trumpet Competition in Budapest, 2^nd place
2011: International Wind Instruments Competition in Brno, 1^st place
2011: International Wind Instruments Competition in Debrecen, 2^nd place
2008: National Trumpet Competition, 1^st place

Solo performances:

2013: Performance with Budapest string soloists: Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
2012: Performance with Budapest string soloists: Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in a minor
2012: Performance with the Prague Philharmonia: Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
2011: Performance with Budapest string soloists: Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

Chamber music group:

2012: International Competition for Wing Instrument Ensembles in Passau, 3^rd place

2012 winner

Paul Kropfitsch - Violin

Born in Vienna on 24 August 2000.
Kropftisch began taking violin lessons with famous violin professor Marina Sorokova at the tender age of four.He continued taking lessons in the class for highly gifted students at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts under professor Sorokova.

2006: 1^st prize with distinction at the regional "Prima la Musica" competition in Eisenstadt.
1^st prize with distinction at the regional "Prima la Musica" competition in Vienna: in 2008 and 2010.
2010: Josef Messner scholarship for particularly outstanding achievements.
2010: 1^st prize at the international violin competition "Alpe - Adria- Marcosig" in Gorizia, Italy.
In May 2010, Paul Kropfitsch won a first prize with distinction at the federal "Prima la Musica" competition in Feldkirch.
2011: Paul Kropfitsch wins the 1^st prize at the international Hindemith competition for violins in Berlin/Germany against a plethora of young international talents.
2012: Paul Kropfitsch wins the 1^st prize with distinction at the regional "Prima la Musica" competition in Vienna. At the same event, he also won the major "BAWAG P.S.K. Talente Award" as the candidate with the highest number of points of all age categories and instruments.

HBW Cultural Award

Die PreisträgerInnen

Julia Haagen - Cello

Elisabeth Pratscher - Sopran

Con Moto - String quartet

Elisabeth Waglechner - Piano

Martin Dajka - Trumpet

Paul Kropfitsch - Violin

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