Seungju Bahg- second prize winner in The Stenhammarcompetition 2016, won the desirable first prize in Norway! A very happy Seungju Bahg received the prize from Queen Sonja! Congratulations from us all!
Elli Vallinoja the finnish mezzosoprano and one of the finalists in the Stenhammar Competition last year, has been very successful in two opera productions at Opéra de Lyon in France.
Christina Nilsson, First prize winner in The Stenhammar Competition 2016, has been offered the role of Aida in the Royal Opera House in Stockholm during the coming season.
Sonja Stenhammar wins Broocmanpriset 2016, the year when the prize is celebrating its tenth anniversary!
First prizewinner in Stenhammarcompetition 2016, Christina Nilsson, and the tenor Adam Frandsen will sing together with The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in Twelfth Night 2017. A smashing program with operett, opera and Vienna high lights! Don´t miss this wonderful start of the new year!
First prize Christina Nilsson
Second prize SeungJu Bahg
Third prize Annika Schlicht
Fourth prize shared between Won Kim and Florieke Beelen
Mozart prize Hanna Husáhr
Audience´s prize Christina Nilsson
Stenhammar prize
Nine fantastic singers, including four swedish, goes to finals in The Stenhammar Competition.
After two exciting rounds, it is nine singers, who will sing in “Grande Finale” with The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. Conductor is Nader Abbassi, who also has been one of the members of the international jury. The singers is competeting for 260.000 SEK and several engagements at concerts- and operascenes around the world.
The nine singers are:
Sofie Asplund, Sverige
SeungJu Bagh, Sydkorea
Florieke Beelen, Nederländerna
Hanna Husahr, Sverige
Åsa Jäger, Sverige
Won Kim, Sydkorea
Christina Nilsson, Sverige
Annika Schlicht, Tyskland
Elli Vallinoja, Finland
Final Concert in De Geerhallen, Norrköping, Thursday 16 June 6 p.m.
Contact: Kerstin Högberg Karlström 0706-167806 eller stenhammarcompetition@norrkoping.se
This year the Stenhammar Competition celebrates 10 year anniversary! The Competition has during these ten years evolved tremendously and the artistic level is very high. Many of the Competition´s previous prize winners are today singing at the major opera stages around the world.
The young swedish tenor, Daniel Johansson, first prize winner in WSIMC 2012, has made his debut as Hoffman in “The Tales of Hoffman” in The Bregenz Festival. In the Autumn 2015, he will sing “Der Rosenkavalier” and “La Bohème” at The Royal Opera in Stockholm. Last season has included both “Madame Butterfly” in Stockholm as well as “La Bohème” at The Helsinki National Opera. For the first time he was singing the role of Don José in “Carmen” at The Norwegian Opera, and performed as Alfredo in “Traviata” in Stockholm and Oslo.
Abigail Levis, mezzosoprano and third prize winner in WSIMC 2014, had a very sucessful year! The same year, she also won the third prize in James Toland Vocal Arts in California and come to an honourable semi-final in Placido Domingos famous singing competition “Operalia”. Abigail Levis was also engaged as Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and Despina in Cosi van tutte at the Utah Opera and made her debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with Symphonie Atlantique, singing the role of Sesto in Handel´s Giulio Cesare in Egitto.
Next season Abigail will join the Domingo-Colburn-Stein ” Young Artists Program” at Los Angeles Opera and will return to Utah Opera in May 2016 for their production of Le nozze di Figaro.