The Stenhammar competition 2024 has ended and the majority of the singers are now moving forward in their careers. For this year’s winner, the soprano Matilda Sterby, projects both to in Malmö and Gothenburg are waiting, and at the beginning of 2025 she will perform Magda in Puccini’s “La Rondine” at the Volksoper Wien. In Vienna you can also find second prize winner Celine Mun from South Korea. Third prize winner Mathilda Bryngelsson, can be enjoyed in “Bellini” at the “Opera på Skäret” now in July/August. Beautifully singing tenor Jaesung Kim, the audience favorite, returns to the Opera in Heidelberg. For young Alva Olsson, an exciting future certainly awaits her.

All participants deserve a big thank you for contributing to this year’s competition maintaining such high quality and that the audience and streaming followers got a week’s celebration.

The international jury, whose importance for the attraction of the competition for the singers cannot be overstated and deserve praise and thanks. As do our pianists, Magnus Svensson and Lars David Nilsson.

A big thank you to the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Scenkonst Öst AB, as well Norrköping municipality, Region Östergötland, sponsors and other contributors and collaborators for making the ninth edition of Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition so successful.

We are now closing the books on this year’s competition and looking forward to the 10th anniversary of the competition in June 2026!

While waiting for the next competition, you can enjoy the 2022 winner, Vera Talerko, who will sing the symphony orchestra in Norrköping at “Gyllene Upptakt” on January 4 2025..

WILHELM STENHAMMAR’S FOUNDATION
Claes Egnell
President

First Prize:

Matilda Sterby, Soprano, Sweden

Second Prize:

Celine Mun, Soprano, South Korea

Third Prize:

Mathilda Bryngelsson, Mezzo, Sweden

The Audience Prize:

Jaesung Kim, Tenor, South Korea

The Mozart Prize:

Annika Sandberg, Soprano, Sweden

The Stenhammar Prize:

Cumhur Gorgun, Bass, Turkey

Erik Rosenius, Bass, Sweden

Lotta Bagge, Mezzo, Sweden

Harpa Ósk Björnsdóttir, Soprano, Iceland

Mathilda Bryngelsson, Mezzo, Sweden

Jaesung Kim, Tenor, South Korea

Celine Mun, Soprano, South Korea

Alva Olsson, Soprano, Sweden

Matilda Sterby, Soprano, Sweden

Viktor Priebe, Countertenor, Sweden

Erik Rosenius, Bass, Sweden

Annika Sandberg, Soprano, Sweden

Kine Sandtrø, Soprano, Norway

Helena Schuback, Soprano, Sweden

David Risberg, Baritone, Sweden

Matilda Sterby, Soprano, Sweden

WenBo Shuai, Countertenor, China

Annika Westlund, Mezzo, Germany

Hannele Ahola, Soprano, Finland

Lotta Bagge, Mezzo, Sweden

Harpa Ósk Björnsdóttir, Soprano, Iceland

Mathilda Bryngelsson, Mezzo, Sweden

Amie Foon, Mezzo, Sweden

Cumhur Gorgun, Bass, Turkey

Jaesung Kim, Tenor, South Korea

Hakyeul Lee, Baritone, South Korea

Ebba Lejonclou, Mezzo, Sweden 

Sanna Matinniemi, Soprano, Finland

Celine Mun, Soprano, South Korea

Kristine Nowlain, Soprano, Sweden

Alva Olsson, Soprano Sweden

OBS! Free entrance during competition days

June 8

10.00-18.30

Lunch 14.00-14.45

June 9

10.00-14.45

Lunch 13.00-14.00

June 10

10.30-17.00

Lunch 12.40-13.20

June 11 

10.30-12.45

Thanks for all the applications!

The application is closed and we have received 124 applications from 29 countries.

Now we have started the tedious work of going through all the submitted material.

Answers to the application will be announced on April 15!

Vera Talerko, who received both the First prize and the Audience prize in the WSIMC competition 2022,
has just made a brilliant debut at the Hamburg Staatsoper! Vera appeared in the world premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s
“Venere e Adonis”, directed by the Opera Director himself, as well as our juror, Georges Delnon, and chief conductor
Kent Nagano. A 70-minute long and strong drama – based on the myth – with a very sparse musical costume that
makes great demands on the international ensemble.