"Jugend musiziert": 14 music students from Chemnitz Municipal Music School take part in the 50th national competition

22nd state competition successfully completed

Congratulations: 14 music students from Chemnitz Municipal Music School have qualified for the national competition at the 22nd "Jugend musiziert" state competition with their highly successful artistic and musical performances! Nancy Gibson, Head of the Chemnitz Municipal Music School, is delighted with the successful participation of her music students: "The team at the Municipal Music School would like to congratulate all of the state competition participants - we are delighted with their fantastic successes and are very proud of our students! The overall results of our pupils at the 22nd state competition in Dresden are also very pleasing for us as a result of the high-quality educational work carried out at the music school. Last year, eight of our students qualified for the national competition - almost twice as many this year! We are delighted and are keeping our fingers crossed for the next stage!"

Chemnitz will be represented at the national competition by the following music students from the Municipal Music School:

Lily Höfling, clarinet, with Jonathan Hofmann, piano
Debora Buschmann, clarinet
Lida Winkler, flute
Vanessa Louise Winkler, pop vocals
Marie-Luise Weber, pop vocals
Jonathan Fröhlich, cello
Helene Winkler, cello
Caroline Zaunick, viola
Simon Winkler, Lasse Anders, both violin, Caroline Zaunick, viola, Helene Winkler, cello and Felix Lingath, piano - all 5 together as a piano quintet.

All results of the 22nd state competition: All results are available online at www.musikschule-chemnitz.de/aktuelles.html and at www.jugend-musiziert.org

Date of the 50th national competition: 17 to 23 May 2013 in Erlangen, Fürth and Nuremberg.

Information on the 22nd state competition in Dresden: The 22nd "Jugend musiziert" Saxony state competition came to an atmospheric close on Sunday evening with a final concert in the concert hall of the Dresden University of Music. Over the past two weekends (15 to 17 and 22 to 24 March), 448 participants in 16 different categories presented themselves to 56 judges from all over Germany in the categories of duo piano and a woodwind instrument, duo piano and a brass instrument, vocal ensemble, string solo, accordion solo, plucked string ensemble, pop vocals as well as percussion and piano chamber music. A total of 21 pupils from the Chemnitz region were honoured for their successful artistic participation in the state competition and forwarded to the national competition, 14 of them from the Chemnitz Municipal Music School.
Over 1,260 pupils had previously applied to take part in the state competition in five regional competitions in Saxony in January.
As a result of the state competition, a total of 139 young musicians will now represent the Free State of Saxony at the national competition at Whitsun in Fürth, Erlangen and Nuremberg and at the national Jugend jazzt competition in Hesse in June.

According to the Saxon Music Council, a total of twelve special prizes totalling 4,000 euros were awarded to outstanding participants by various institutions and foundations at the final concert.
The state competition is organised by the Saxon Music Council, which mainly finances the competition with funds from the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts; the East German Savings Banks Association was once again the main sponsor.

Contact and contact person:
Nancy Gibson, Chairwoman of the "Jugend musiziert" regional committee and Head of the Chemnitz Municipal Music School,
Call 0371/302289, e-mail: musikschule@stadt-chemnitz.de

Torsten Tannenberg, Managing Director of Sächsischer Musikrat e.V. Dresden,
Call 0351/80 242 33, e-mail: tannenberg@saechsischer-musikrat.de