Harald Schoneweg (Germany)
Chairman of the Jury

His most important teachers were Igor Ozim, Nathan Milstein and Sandor Vegh. He studied at the conservatories in Cologne and Düsseldorf.

After his Konzertexamen in 1980, he started his career with the “Cherubini Quartet” which lasts until 1994 and took him in more than 2000 concerts around the world. During this period, he was exclusive artist of EMI Electrola and a member of the “Linos Ensemble” as violist.

In 1987 he founded a chamber music Festival at Badia Passignano near Florence in Italy and as the artistic director he invited international musicians to the center of Tuscany to play chamber music.

Since 1994 he is professor for string chamber music at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne where a number of famous ensembles of the young generation worked with him, among them “Cuarteto casals, Schumann Quartet, Klenke Quartet, Trio Con Brio, Leibniz Trio and many others.