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

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

First Prize  Vera Talerko, Second Prize Rebecka Wallroth,

Third Prize Yohan John Ji, Stenhammar Prize Erica Back,Mozart Prize      Sarah Yang, Audience´s Prize  Vera Talerko 

Yauhenia Babich,

Erika Back,

Ang Du,

Sebastian Duran,

Zaza Gagua,

Helena Gedda,

Yohan John Ji,

Leo Jaewon Jung,

Joonyeop Kim,

Kyeyeong Kim,

Taeseup Kim,

Victoria Seungri Kim,

Cecile Lastchenko,

Dongmin Lee,

Abigail Levis,

Martin Lissel,

Assuntha Overvliet,

Chandai Park,

Heejin Park,

Clarke Ruth,

Marie Dominique Ryckmanns,

Daniela Stoll,

Emma Sventelius,

Vera Talerko,

Rebecka Wallroth,

Chen Xu,

Sarah Yang,

On June 10-17,2022, the Wilhelm Stenhammar International Music Competition (WSIMC) will be held for the eight time in De Geerhallen, Norrköping. 121 singers, from 27 countries, have applied to the competition, and a pre-jury will now select 70 singers to perform for the Swedish audience.

The WSS board, has today stated, that they don´t see, any possibility, to allow the citizens of Russia to participate, either as competitors or jury members,  in this years competition.

Russia´s attack on Ukraine poses a serious threat to the European security order, and the right of small states to independence. Virtually all states, companies and international institutions, choose to isolate Russia today, and our board is in solidarity with that action, says chairman of the WSS board, Claes Egnell.