HfMT violinist acquires historical instrument

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Veronika Rädler, who is currently completing her Bachelor's degree in violin in the class of Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender, was the winner of the 31st competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund in the German Foundation for Musical Life on February 25, 2024 and won a valuable violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore (Milan, ca. 1710).

Vita
Veronika Rädler (*2000) has been studying in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender's class at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since October 2019. She is a prizewinner of the Elise Meyer Competition 2021 and 2023 and the instrument competition of the Sinfonima Foundation Mannheim. Most recently, she won a violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Milan around 1710, at the 31st competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund.
With her piano trio, the Tovesco Trio, she won 5th prize, the audience prize and the special prize for the best semi-final at the International Chamber Music Competition Pinerolo e Torino 2023. In February 2024, she received the Berenberg Bank Cultural Promotion Prize in the form of a scholarship, which was presented to the trio at the Elbphilharmonie. The ensemble with Francesco Maccarrone and Luca Giovannini has been playing together for three years and regularly gives concerts in Germany and Italy. The trio is taught by Dirk Mommertz and Niklas Schmidt and has also taken part in masterclasses with members of the Vogler Quartet and Eberhard Feltz.
Veronika received further musical inspiration as a soloist at masterclasses with Mihaela Martin, Sophia Jaffé and Nora Chastain, as well as from Midori and Tabea Zimmermann. She is a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life, the International Lyceum Club Hamburg and the organization "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now" Hamburg.