The 2025 Festival Album
Orchestra Excerpts for Double Bass Competition
1rst Prize: Yushe ZHANG (27 years old, Chine / Trossingen, Germany)
2nd Prize: Jens SIMILOX-Tohon (38 years old, Landen, Belgium)
Solo Double Bass Competition
Group B:
1st Prize: Yeeun KIM (15 years old, Incheon, Korea)
2nd Prize: Hanns Jago BERNKLAU (12 years old, Berlin, Germany)
Group C:
1st Prize EX-AEQUO: Duda BOTELHO (18 years old, Berlin, Germany & Julian ING (16 years old, Lucerne, Switzerland)
Double Bass and Bow Making Competition / Double Bass
1st Prize, bow maker: Jon HESS (Engwiller, France)
2nd Prize EX AEQUO: bow makers Nils OSSMAN (Visby, Sweden) & Lauritz AIGNER (Erlangen, Germany)
2nd and 3rd Prize: team luthiers Xia YANG & Junfeng LI (Xi'an, China)
Composition Competition for Double Bass
1st Prize: David ROCHE (35 years old, Stretham, United Kingdom) for his work: “THOUSANDTH HYMNAL for 7 double basses”