Winners announced in 2021 Goodmesh Concours
Florence Lockheart
Friday, January 14, 2022
This year's winners used live painting, puppetry and visual art alongside music to engage with the theme of 'expectations versus reality'
Winners have been announced for the first, second and audience prizes in the 2021 Goodmesh Concours. Embarking on its second year, this innovative competition requires musicians to partner with creators in a different art form, with entrants using a wide range of media to interpret this year’s theme of ‘Expectations versus Reality’.
The competition’s first prize was awarded to Charlotte Spruit (violin) and Jérémie Queyras (live painting) for their work, Echoes from the Future which explores the ‘relationship between painting and music raises questions about artistic expression as a time-based experience’. In addition to a cash prize of €1500, and the package of performance opportunities, professional video recording and a photoshoot given to all prize-winners, Spruit and Queyras will also record and distribute an album with TRPTK recording studio.
Second prize went to Johannes Fritsche (baritone), Emilien Truche (puppeteer and visual theatre) and Manon Parmentier (piano) for their work dopqelgänger. Alongside a cash prize of €1000, these winners will also receive €500 for winning the award for Best Interdisciplinary Project.
Sketch351 (contemporary music ensemble), Nuno Lobo (composition) and Pedro Lobo (video art) won the Audience Award prize of €750 with their piece, It Rose Behind the River which aimed to represent ‘the symbiosis between music, the written narrative and visuals [and] give voice to characters in an attempt to convey all the poetic imagery.’
Started in 2020 by Dutch creative management agency Goodmesh, the Goodmesh Concours aims to find artists who take creative risks and while celebrating the collaborations of artists from different fields. All participants must hold a degree in their artistic field, and their performances and concepts were judged as a whole by a jury including Cellist and TRPTK artist manager Maya Fridman, Goodmesh founder Jacques Goddijn, Violist Dana Zemtsov, and Dimitri van der Werf, Co-founder and Artistic Director of Classical NOW!
The winner's concert & awards ceremony will be held in Amsterdam’s Vondelkerk on 26 February. In addition to hosting a live audience (subject to covid restrictions), the event will be live streamed on the Goodmesh Facebook page.