Portrait der Teilnehmerin Felicitas Schiffner

Felicitas Schiffner

Born 1997, Germany
Felicitas Schiffner has already made her debut with orchestras such as the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden and the Harbin Symphony Orchestra, China. She has appeared at various international festivals and played in concert halls such as the Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York and Jordan Hall in Boston.
She has won prizes at several international competitions, including the Washington International Competition for Strings, the Schoenfeld International String Competition, the International Rubinstein Competition for Strings and the International Isaac Stern Violin Competition.

Felicitas Schiffner studied with Erik Schumann in Frankfurt am Main and is currently studying with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA.

Felicitas Schiffner is a member of the Marlboro Music Festival (USA), the Seiji Ozawa Academy (Geneva) and the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz.

As a prizewinner of the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Felicitas Schiffner plays a violin by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris 1863, a fiduciary contribution to the fund from a Hamburg family estate. She is also supported by Echo Munich.

Find out more at www.felicitasschiffner.com

Repertoire

PRELIMINARY ROUND 1
Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003

Eugène Ysaÿe
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor ‘Ballade’, Op. 27

PRELIMINARY ROUND 2
Franz Schubert
Violin Sonata in A major, D. 574

Clara Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

SEMIFINAL ROUND 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major, K. 218, movement 1 & 2

Béla Bartók
Divertimento, Sz 113 -  3. Allegro assai

SEMIFINAL ROUND 2
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet movement

Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata in G minor

Richard Strauss
Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18

Witold Lutosławski
Subito for Violin and Piano (1992)

Jules Massenet
Meditation ‘Thaïs’

FINAL ROUND
Enno Poppe
Feder (WP)

Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Joseph
Joachim