Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC)

Juries for the 10th BISQC (2010)

P R E L I M I N A R Y    J U R Y
C O M P E T I T I O N    J U R Y
P R E L I M I N A R Y    J U R Y

The preliminary jury will listen to unidentified copies of the audition recordings submitted by candidates for the competition, and will use a uniform marking system to assign marks. The 10 quartets receiving the highest aggregate marks will be invited to take part in the competition.

Denis Brott

Denis Brott

cello, Canada

Founder and artistic director of the prize-winning Montreal Chamber Music Festival and professor at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, cellist Denis Brott is recognized internationally as one of Canada’s finest performing musicians.   More

Marka Gustavsson

Marka Gustavsson

viola, United States

As violist of the award-winning Colorado Quartet for more than ten seasons, Marka Gustavsson has performed hundreds of concerts in major halls across the United States, Canada, and Europe.   More

Ian Swensen

Ian Swensen

violin, United States

Violinist Ian Swensen has established himself as one of the most dynamic, diverse, and sought-after performers and teachers on the music scene today. He is one of the few musicians to have been awarded the Walter W. Naumberg International Competition’s top prize for both chamber music and violin.   More

C O M P E T I T I O N    J U R Y
Terrence Helmer

Terrence Helmer

viola, Canada (Orford Quartet)

Outstanding Canadian-born violist Terence Helmer was born in Northern Ontario. He studied under the tutelage of several mentors, including with Geza De Kresz, Kathleen Parlow, Joseph Gingold, and Arthur Grumiaux. Mr. Helmer is a founder of the Orford Quartet.   More

Erich Höebarth

Erich Höbarth

violin, Austria (Quatuor Mosaïques)

Erich Höbarth was born in Vienna in 1956. Höbarth was first concertmaster of the Vienna Symphony from 1980 to 1987; concertmaster and soloist with the Concertus Musicus, and member of the Vienna String Sextet from 1979 to 2004. Since 1987, Höbarth has been a member of Quatuor Mosaïques.   More

Louise Hopkins

Louise Hopkins

cello, United Kingdom (Guildhall School)

Louise has recently been appointed deputy head of strings at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and maintains there a high-level award-winning class. She has given masterclasses in France, Germany, Switzerland, Serbia, and throughout the U.K. In September 2007 she began as a cello professor at the Hochschule in Bern, Switzerland.   More

Hsin-Yun Huang

Hsin-Yun Huang

viola, Taiwan/U.S.A. (Borromeo Quartet)

One of the leading violists of her generation, Hsin-Yun Huang came to  international prominence in 1993 when she was winner of the top prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award.  In 1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.   More

Joel Krosnick

Joel Krosnick

cello, United States (Juilliard Quartet)

For more than 35 years, cellist Joel Krosnick has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician all over the world. As a member of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, he has performed the great quartet literature throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.   More

Tim Vogler

Tim Vogler

violin, Germany (Vogler Quartet)

From 1992 to 1996, Tim Vogler taught chamber music at Spezialschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. From 1996 to 1999, he was guest professor for violin at the Detmold Music Conservatory. From time to time he plays as a soloist with orchestra, and performs orchestra projects and recitals with the pianist Frank-Immo Zichner.   More

Timothy Ying

Timothy Ying

violin, United States (Ying Quartet)

Timothy Ying has performed for the last 15 years as first violinist of the acclaimed Ying Quartet. The Quartet has appeared around the world in locations such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Sydney Opera House, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Munich’s Gasteig, Amsterdam’s Musikgebouw; and at music festivals including Aspen, Bowdoin, Brevard, Caramoor, Interlochen, Ravinia, and Tanglewood.   More