Sophie Dartigalongue – 2nd Prize and Audience Prize winner for Bassoon of the ARD Music Competition 2013
The 2nd Prize as well as the Audience Prize of the 2013 ARD Music Competition was awarded on September 11 to the French bassoonist Sophie Dartigalongue for her interpretation of the Jolivet bassoon concerto. Traditionally no 1st prize was awarded. Warmest congratulations!
Sophie performs on a Püchner bassoon model Superior.
Earlier awards: First prize winner of the bassoon competition AudiMozart 2010 in Roverto, Italy, second price in the “4th National G. Rossini bassoon competition” in Pesaro in October 2010, first award of the Carl-Maria von Weber bassoon competition in Wroclaw, Poland in November 2010 and first prize winner for bassoon of the 4th International Academic Oboe and Bassoon Competition, Lodz, Poland in May 2011. 2nd prize winner of the International Crusell Bassoon Competition, Uusikaupunki, Finland, July 2011. 1st prize winner of the 6th International bassoon competition Michal Spisak, Poland in October 2012. 2nd prize of "The Muri Competition" 2013, Switzerland.
After her bassoon studies with Carlo Colombo in Lyon, followed by studies at the Karajan-Academy in Berlin, Sophie is a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from their concert season 2013/14 on.