Audience voting possible from April 19th – final show on May 31st on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – At the recently held audition for the “Golden Note 2024”, nine young musicians qualified for the final of the classical young talent award of the same name. Five girls and four boys between the ages of nine and 18 emerged as winners of the casting. The outstanding artists impressed a top-class jury of experts and “Golden Note” initiator Leona König with their performances in the genres of string and plucked instruments (violin, harp), wind instruments (oboe, horn, saxophone) and keyboard instruments (piano). Founder and chairwoman of the International Music Association for the Promotion of Gifted Children (IMF) and presenter of the ORF format “Stars & Talents”. In the final, which can be seen as a TV concert gala on Friday, May 31st at 9:20 p.m. on ORF 2, they will compete for the “Golden Note”, which has already been awarded for the eighth time, and vie for first place in their category. The winning decision is made by a star jury made up of renowned stars of the classical music genre. On Whit Monday, May 20th, ORF 2 will show the highlights of the audition under the title “Golden Note – The Semifinale” at 5:55 p.m.
This year too, you can vote in advance for the “Golden Note” audience award via online voting. Anyone who would like to support the up-and-coming young talent can cast their vote for their favorite at tv.> from Friday, April 19th to Tuesday, May 14th (11:59 p.m.). All nine finalists will also be presented on and.
An overview of the nine “Golden Note” finalists for 2024
Category: string and (for the first time) plucked instruments
Nikoloz Menabde (from Klosterneuburg/Lower Austria, 9 years old, violin)
Amelie Jade Knapp (from Trautmannsdorf/Lower Austria, 15 years old, harp)
Raphaël Bleuse (from Vienna, 16 years old, violin)
Wind instruments category:
Dominik Baumgartner (from Brunn am Gebirge / Lower Austria, 10 years, Horn)
Mira Hanner (from Zwettl/Upper Austria), 11 years, oboe)
Isabella Schieferer (from Innsbruck/Tyrol, 17 years old, saxophone)
Category Keyboard Instruments:
Adriana Vasilski (from Munich/Germany, 12 years old, piano)
Paul Herbst (from Eppan/South Tyrol, 14 years old, piano)
Anahit Stelmashova (from Tbilisi/Georgia, soon to be 18, piano)
König: “’Golden Note’ opens doors”
Leona König, initiator and presenter of the “Golden Note”: “This year we have once again discovered nine really great young artists who have qualified for the ‘Golden Note’ with various instruments. New this year are the harp, the horn, the oboe and the saxophone – an expansion in content that I am very happy about. But it also makes me happy and proud that we can give the winners international performances as prizes for the first time. The ‘Golden Note’ opens doors and turns today’s talents into tomorrow’s stars.”
The “Golden Note 2024” awards
In addition to the solo performances in the TV finale, all finalists of the “Golden Note 2024” will receive professional, age-appropriate IMF master classes with established musicians in Austria or abroad, as well as participation in IMF projects such as: B. in a “Golden Note” concert as part of this year’s Salzkammergut Festwochen Gmunden as well as in the ORF young talent series “Stars & Talents”, conceived and moderated by Leona König, which continues to support the young artists.
The “Golden Note” winners also receive special prizes – in addition to the winning performances already completed in the final with the artists of the star jury and a top-class trophy. This makes foreign concerts possible for the first time: In collaboration with Simón Ibáñez, clarinetist and professor at the Vienna Academy of Music, a concert with orchestra in the renowned Auditorio de Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, Spain – headquarters of the Royal Philharmonic of Galicia – is planned in April 2025, as well as a Second Spanish concert with orchestra in the famous opera and concert hall Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in València. One winner can look forward to a concert with pianist Nareh Arghamanyan in the Notre-Dame-Immaculée Cathedral in Monaco-Ville on July 12, 2024. There is also free use of the famous concert hall in Vienna’s Palais Ehrbar, where classical greats have performed like Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler or Arnold Schönberg made music, for their own concert or recording, as well as – as an audience award – a semester of study at the Music and Art Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK).
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