Violin Channel To Host 2 Day Virtual Menuhin Competition Festival

The two day online extravaganza, celebrating three decades of the world's leading international competition for young violinists, includes archival footage from past competitions, interviews with jurors and participants and much more

The Violin Channel and the Menuhin Competition Richmond 2021 announced the launch of a new 2 day all-day Menuhin Competition Festival, set to take place across The Violin Channel’s Facebook and Instagram pages on Friday and Saturday the 16th and 17th of October.

Highlights of the festival schedule include:

Friday October 16th, 2020:

10:00 AM: "Austin 2014 Senior Semi-Finals" - With Competition Artistic Director Gordon Back and Jury Chair Pamela Frank

12.00 PM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Joji Hattori

1:00 PM: "VC AMA (Ask Me Anything)" - With 1991 Junior Competition prize winner, Jennifer Koh

2.00 PM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Pamela Frank

3:00 PM: "Oslo 2010 1st Prize Winners" - With VC Artists Angelo Xiang Yu and Kerson Leong

5.00 PM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Henning Kraggerud 

7:00 PM: 2018 Geneva Junior Competition Final Encore Performance

Saturday October 17th, 2020:

9.00 AM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Pamela Frank

11:00 AM: "Beijing 2012 Prize Winners" - With Competition Artistic Director Gordon Back and Kenneth Renshaw, Kevin Zhu & SooBeen Lee

1.00 PM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Henning Kraggerud 

2:00 PM: "VC Hero Call" - With 2016 Senior Competition prize winner, VC Artist InMo Yang & Miriam Fried

3.00 PM: 2018 Geneva Menuhin Competition Masterclass With Joji Hattori

5:30 PM: 2016 London Senior Competition Final Encore Performance

The 2020 Menuhin Competition, in Richmond, Virginia, will now take place from the 13th to the 23rd of May, 2021 due to the pandemic.

The 2021 jury will comprise: Pamela Frank, Joji Hattori, Aaron Dworkin, Ralph Kirshbaum, Soyoung Yoon, Piers Lane and VC Artists Noah Bendix-Balgley and Angelo Xiang Yu

Artists-in-residence are set to include Regina Carter, Mark & Maggie O’Connor and the Sphinx Virtuosi.