Prize Winners 2023

Category A1
1st: Alexander Umundum (Austria)
2nd: Yu-Wei Kuo (Taiwan)
3rd: Sih-Han Guo (Taiwan)
Honourable mention: Xin-Rou Yu (Taiwan)

Category A2
1st: Camille Eigenmann (Switzerland)
2nd (shared): Julia Abdalla (Brazil), Joseph Sainsbury (UK)
3rd: Ajna Marosz (Hungary)
4th (shared): Klára Valentovičová (Slovakia), Clara-Sophie Kleffner (Germany), Emilia Sarau (Germany)
Honourable mention: Avner Bach (Israel), Chien-Hua Kuo (Taiwan), Flóra Bagi (Hungary)

Category A3
1st: not awarded
2nd (shared): Hsing-an Lee (Taiwan), Sam Honeybone (UK)
Honourable mention: Yu-Ya Wang (Taiwan), Jule Helmkamp (Germany)

Category A4:
Honourable mention: Nicole de Beer

Category B1:
1st: Mysterious Dark Continent (Taiwan)
Honourable mention: Quintet Yu-Chen Wang (Taiwan), Duo Krimi (The Netherlands)

Category B2:
Honourable mention: Zungenbrecher-Quartett (Germany), Three Square (Taiwan), Quintet Yu-Hsin Wang & friends (Taiwan)

Category B3
Honourable mention: Duo Silvie Reske & Famke Wellmann (Germany), Duo Tara Althaus & Theresia Volbers (Germany), The Green Leaves Ensemble (USA), Duo Jule Helmkamp & Joyce Maliza Huntemann (Germany)

Category C1
1st: Kaohsiung Municipal Fushan Elementary School Recorder Troupe (Taiwan)

Category C2
1st: Recording Artists (Germany)
2nd: Hsin-Chu Recorder Orchestra (Taiwan)

Category C3
1st: Ensemble der Blockflöten Akademie Oldenburg (Germany)

Category D
1st: La Quercia (UK)
Honourable mention: LIEVE Duo (Austria)

Junior Jury Prize:
Ajna Marosz (Hungary)

Audience Award:
Alexander Umundum (Austria).

Prize for a special programme:
Alexander Umundum (Austria)

Prize for own composition:
Hsing-an Lee (Taiwan)

Best performance of a contemporary piece:
Sam Honeybone (UK)
Honourable mention: Recording Generations (Germany)

Prize for best non-recorder player:
1st: Erik Wang (The Netherlands)
2nd: Saul Hoeflach (The Netherlands)

The Royal Wind Music Prize (playing music on consort instruments):
Recording Artists (Germany)

Most creative programme:
La Quercia (UK)

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The ORDA-2023 recorder competition promises an exciting opportunity for all participants: the chance to play for a wide audience, to meet and listen to other players, to get feedback from an expert jury and, perhaps, to take a prize home!

The competition is open to amateur recorder players of all ages, divided into three main categories:

A) Recorder solo or with accompaniment
B) Recorder duo, trio, quartet and quintet • mixed ensembles of 2 up to 5 members
C) Recorder sextets and larger ensembles • mixed ensembles of 6 or more members

These categories are subdivided into several age groups (average age when entering as an ensemble):

1) 11 years and younger
2) 12 to 16 years old
3) 17 to 29 years old (soloists) / 17 years and older (ensembles)
4) 30 years and older (soloists)

There is also a special (pre)professional category:

D) Recorder consorts formed by Conservatoire students and/or graduates with an average age up to 35 years.

Jury members in 2023:

Prizes and sponsors

  • Stipends for a total value of €2500 - donation by Erven M.A. Breukink

  • The Adriana Breukink Prize: an eagle Ganassi Alto with a special airbrush design - Kunath Instrumentenbau and Erven M.A. Breukink

  • Bressan tenor - Stephan Blezinger

  • Coolsma Bressan 415 recorder Ivorine - AAFAB Recorder Center

  • DE-1114 Denner Edition soprano recorder grenadilla 415 Hz - Conrad Mollenhauer GmbH

  • 8 x €100 vouchers - Recorder Center Bremen- Margret Löbner

  • Transitional Soprano a'=415 Hz, maple/plum - Blockflötenschmiede Erik Jahn & Sophie Schmid

  • G Alto Ganassi Bassano recorder in 466 Hz - Francesco Li Virghi

  • G-alto Ganassi recorder in 440 & 466 Hz - Tom de Vries 

  • Alto Dragonflute recorder - Tim Cranmore

  • £250 Early Music Shop Gift Card - The Early Music Shop