Application – The Jan Wallander prize
Handelsbanken and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH), welcomes applications for the Jan Wallander Prize!
Musicians express themselves through their instruments. First class instruments mean that musicians can hone their expressive skills – the instrument responds sensitively to the finest impulses and, with the beauty of its tone, contributes to the richness of expression.
The very finest instruments are exclusive works of handicraft art, while the same time being exquisite working items – and there are only a limited number of them. Therefore, the likelihood of a young, very talented music student being able to play one of the very finest instruments is tiny.
For this reason, Handelsbanken has founded a prize in co-operation with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm – the Jan Wallander Prize. The prize winner is chosen by an international jury and will have the loan of an exceedingly high-class instrument.
The prize will be awarded at a ceremony at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm on Thursday, March 27 2025.
The call is for you that the autumn term of 2024 is a registered student at one of Sweden’s music colleges on advanced level, with viola as the main instrument and specialization in classical music.
The price means that for a longer period of time, but for a maximum of nine years, you can dispose of a viola built by Enrico Ceruti around 1830.
Read about the instrument: Handelsbanken Classic Instruments – Jan Wallanderpriset (jwpriset.se)
The following is to be enclosed with all applications:
- a birth certificate or equivalent (personbevis)
- a letter/certificate confirming that the applicant is a student as specified above.
- a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s current main instrument tutor.
- film (image and sound) where the applicant plays a movement from a sonata and a movement from a concerto, one of which must have been composed before 1825, as well as a virtuoso work or a composition written after 2000.
The combined playing time should not exceed 20 minutes. The film should be sent digitally by for example Sprend or WeTransfer. The films are sent to ansokan@jwpriset.se, along with the other documents.
Applications for the Jan Wallander Prize 2025 must be submitted at the latest by Sunday January 5th 2025.
To be valid, the application must be complete when submitted.
Send the application by e-mail to ansokan@jwpriset.se.
The jury consists of Maria Winiarski, and Avri Levitan and Professor Staffan Scheja (Royal College of Music in Stockholm).
If you have any questions, please contact: Per Sjöberg, 070-538 03 66, per.sjoberg@kmh.se.