Summer Festival Antwerp 2025 — General information

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1. Introduction
2. Masterclasses
3. International Young Talent Music Competition
4. Concerts
5. Subscription
6. Posters

Introduction

The 34th installment of the yearly Summer Festival ran from July 30 through August 8.  The festival consisted of:

• masterclasses for violin, cello, piano and harp
• concerts by masterclass students and professors
• International Young Talent Music Competition

Organization: Seungyun Jin (Love²Arts)
Artistic director: Dirk Verelst (International Academy of Arts)

Masterclasses

The masterclasses ran from July 30 through August 8.  At the last minute, professor Laurentiu Sbarcea (cello) fell ill.  He was replaced by professor Aleksey Shadrin.

Professors

Accompanist

International Young Talent Music Competition

The International Young Talent Music Competition took place at the Ma'GO! Music Academy on August 7, 2025 at 3:30pm.

This year's winners:

First prize / Musafia prize: Issei Kurihara
Second Prize: Mayu Nishimura
Third Prize: Sujeong Lee

Jurors: Minhee Kim, Päivyt Meller, Takashi Shimizu, Piet Kuijken, Charlie Choi-Lee Hung, Dirk Verelst (chairman) and Seungyun Jin (secretary).

Program Category A (under 12 years)

Applicants in category A choose their own program (maximum duration 10 minutes).

Program Category B (12 years and over)

Violin

1. Niccolò Paganini — 1 caprice (free choice)
2. Johann Sebastian Bach — 1 movement from Solo Sonatas & Partitas (free choice)

Cello

1. Johann Sebastian Bach — 1 movement from the Suites for solo cello (free choice)
2. Carlo Alfredo Piatti — 1 of the 12 Caprices for solo cello, op. 25 (free choice)

1. Luigi Legnani — 1 caprice (free choice)
   or Fernando Sor — 1 étude (free choice)
2. n/a
3. Leo Brouwer or Wim Henderickx — 2 pieces or 1 movement (free choice)
4. Johann Kaspar Mertz or Manuel María Ponce — 2 pieces or 1 movement (free choice)

Piano

1. 1st movement from a sonata by Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven
2. 1 etude by Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff or Scriabin

1. Ludwig Albert — Feel the sunlight
   or Keiko Abe — Variations on Dowland's Lachrimae Pavane
   or Paul Smadbeck — Virginia Tate
2. Markus Halt — Marimbics
   or Joz Metzger — Spiral Passages
   or Anna Ignatowicz — Toccata
   or Eric Sammut — Caméléon
   or Chin Cheng Lin — Kaleidoscope
   or L. H. Stevens — Rhythmic Caprice
   or N. J. Zivkovic — Ultimatum

Harp

Candidates choose two pieces to play with a maximum combined duration of 15 minutes.  They need to be of different styles and different time periods.

1. Carlo Pässler — Rondo (arrangement by Marcel Grandjany)
2. Linda Wood — Two Guitars (Harp Solos Vol. 4)

International Harp Competition

The International Harp Competition was merged with the International Young Talent Music Competition.

Concerts

July 31 at 8pm:
Concert by masterclass students and professors
at St.-Benedictus Church in Mortsel
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August 1 at 8pm:
Concert by masterclass students
at Love²Arts Gallery in Antwerp
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August 2 at 3:30pm:
Int. Young Talent Music Competition
at Ma'GO! Music Academy in Antwerp
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August 4~6 at 8pm:
Concerts by masterclass students
at Love²Arts Gallery in Antwerp
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August 8 at 7pm:
Final concert and reception
at Love²Arts Gallery in Antwerp
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Subscription

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Posters