The Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition

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2025 Grand Prize Winner and First Prize Winner of the Duo Category: Bronde Duo (Maria Jojatu & Ehrentraud Moser, violins)

The Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition is a free annual event and an outstanding opportunity to hear classical music performed by small ensembles comprised of the next generation of artists – students of The Glenn Gould School. The finals take place in the stunning acoustics of The Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall with over $11,000 in prizes available to be won!

Congratulations to the 2025 Winners!

Chamber Groups (three or more):

1st prize | $3,500: Cherry Trio (Anna Štube, violin; Grace Lau, viola; Mira Kardan, cello)
2nd prize | $2,500: Trio Pomme (Tiffany Yeung, violin; Sua Kwoun, cello; Jerry Hu, piano)
3rd prize | $1,500: Trio Brothers (Yen-Han Chen, clarinet; Adrian Nicolas Ong, violin; Colin Chang, piano)

Duos:

1st prize | $1,500: Bronde Duo (Maria Jojatu & Ehrentraud Moser, violins)
2nd prize | $1,250: Duo Castillo (Chelsea Ahn & Gloriana Wolf, pianos)
3rd prize | $1,000: Riviera Duo (Daria Schibitcaia, violin; Hon Yu (Richard) Wong, piano)
Grand Prize | $500 per group member: Bronde Duo (Maria Jojatu, Ehrentraud Moser)

The winners are chosen every year by a jury of acclaimed artists. The 2025 adjudicators were:

Max Levinson

Pianist Max Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless technique. His international career was launched when he won First Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition. He is also recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Award. He has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony.

He is an Artist-Member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and frequently appears at major music festivals including Seattle, Santa Fe, La Jolla, and Rockport. Levinson is a graduate of Harvard and the New England Conservatory and is on faculty at the Boston Conservatory and New England Conservatory.
Lesley N. Robertson

A graduate of both the Curtis Institute and The Juilliard School, Lesley Robertson, viola, hails from Edmonton, Alberta and currently lives in California where, along with the St. Lawrence String Quartet she is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University.
A founding member of the SLSQ, Lesley has been privileged to perform in some of the world’s most renowned concert halls including Amsterdam’s Konzertgebau, New York’s Lincoln Center, and Paris’ Theatre de la Ville, as well as more unusual venues such as Hanoi’s “The French Opera House," Luxembourg’s Bourglinster Castle and at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton.
Ransom Wilson

Ransom Wilson is a renowned flutist and conductor, currently holding the Camilla Huxford Chair of Orchestral Studies at the University of Alabama.

He is Artistic Director of LE TRAIN BLEU and Music Director of the Redlands Symphony, which has flourished under his leadership.

A former Metropolitan Opera conductor, he has led major orchestras worldwide, including the London Symphony and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. His acclaimed recordings span classical and contemporary music, earning three Grammy nominations.
A champion of new works, Wilson has commissioned many composers. He studied at Juilliard and in France with Jean-Pierre Rampal, receiving mentorship from Leonard Bernstein.

Presented in honour of R.S. Williams & Sons Company Ltd.

Congratulations to the 2025 Winners!

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