The Music Council of Australia and Freedman Foundation are delighted to announce Kristian Winther as the winner of the 2010 MCA/Freedman Fellowship for Classical Music.
KRISTIAN WINTHER (Violin, Melbourne) was born in Canberra in 1984and has studied violin with Josette Esquedin-Morgan and John Harding, and conducted with John Curro. As a soloist he has performed with the Melbourne, Sydney and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, the Auckland Philharmonic, Orchestra Victoria, Melbourne Chamber Orchestra and Melbourne Youth Orchestra, and has been Guest Assistant Concertmaster of the Adelaide and Western Australian Symphony Orchestras and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. From 2007-2008 Kristian was violinist with the TinAlley String Quartet, winning the 2007 Banff International String Quartet Competition, which was followed by critically acclaimed tours of the USA and Europe. He has also played chamber music with Richard Tognetti, Brett Dean, among others. Kristian is also a composer, and premiered his work for string quartet “…etude” at the Sydney Opera House in 2008 with the TinAlley String Quartet. He is currently undertaking a fellowship at the Australian National Academy of Music.
The judges for 2010 are three respected members of Australia’s classical music community: Peter Czornyj, Goetz Richter and Claire Edwardes. On behalf of the judges, Peter Czornyj, Director of Artistic Planning of the Sydney Symphony said, “We have seen four very accomplished performers with strong career proposals and each in their own way have something very special to offer. However, we can only award one fellowship and the decision was a difficult one. We agreed that Kristian Winther is the most outstanding candidate for the 2010 Freedman Fellowship for classical performers.”
“The generous funding from the Freedman Foundation will this year boost the career of an exceptional young musician in Kristian Winther. We expect that he will become one of Australia’s most outstanding and best know musicians. He joins our former Freedman Fellows such as Genevieve Lacey, Karin Schaupp, William Barton, Tamara Anna Cislowska, Geoffrey Morris, Claire Edwardes, Joseph Tawadros and Timothy Constable.” Richard Letts, Executive Director, Music Council of Australia.
The prize money for the Fellowship, inaugurated in 2001, is $15,000 cash and consultations to assist with non-musical aspects of career-building, as well as active support from Music Council personnel during the Fellowship period.
Established in 1998 by Laurence and Kathy Freedman, The Freedman Foundation also supports visual artists, Australian youth projects, and scientific and medical research.
Written by Masso
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