HfMT violinist acquires historical instrument

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Veronika Rädler, who is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in violin in Prof. Tanja Becker-Bender’s class, won a prize on February 25, 2024, at the 31st Competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund at the German Foundation for Musical Life and won a valuable violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore (Milan, ca. 1710).

Biography
Veronika Rädler (b. 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 prize winner of the 2021 and 2023 Elise Meyer Competition as well as the Instrument Competition of the Sinfonima Foundation in Mannheim. Most recently, she won a violin by Carlo Giuseppe Testore, Milan, ca. 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 semifinal performance at the 2023 Pinerolo e Torino International Chamber Music Competition. In February 2024, the trio received the Berenberg Bank Cultural Promotion Award in the form of a scholarship, which was presented to them at the Elbphilharmonie. The ensemble, featuring Francesco Maccarrone and Luca Giovannini, has been performing together for three years and gives regular concerts in Germany and Italy. The trio studies with Dirk Mommertz and Niklas Schmidt and has also participated in master classes with members of the Vogler Quartet and Eberhard Feltz.
Veronika gained further musical inspiration as a soloist through master classes with Mihaela Martin, Sophia Jaffé, and Nora Chastain, as well as from Midori and Tabea Zimmermann. She is a scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the International Lyceum Club Hamburg, and the organization “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now” in Hamburg.