Viola and piano duo Mönkemeyer-Rimmer win the 2009 Parkhouse Award
Superb performances of the second movement of Hindemith’s
Sonata in C major and Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op 120, No 1
secured the 2009 Parkhouse Award for Nils Mönkemeyer and
Nicholas Rimmer at Wigmore Hall on 7 March. They are
already a seasoned duo having given concerts together in
Germany to critical acclaim, including over forty
performances as part of the ‘Konzerte Junger Künstler’
scheme. The jury comprised Lowri Blake, Adam Gatehouse,
John Gilhooly, Brian Hawkins, Hamish Milne, Catherine
Mackintosh and chairman Chris de Souza. The duo’s prize
is three recitals in London:
28 October 2009 at St John’s Smith Square
14 March 2010 at Wigmore Hall 16 September 2010 at Wigmore Hall Mönkemeyer-Rimmer were also selected for the concert series ‘Best of NRW’ in 2007 which awarded a series of eleven concerts in the North-Rhine Westphalia region supported by WDR Radio. Their concerts have been broadcast by all Germany’s state radio stations as well as by Deutschlandradio. They have recorded works by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Pärt and Schubert for Genuin (2008) and Sony (2009), and works by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid for the CPO label. Nils Mönkemeyer (31) studied with Hariolf Schlichtig at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and Veronika Hagen at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Since 2006 he has been assistant to Diemut Poppen and Professor for orchestral studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia Madrid. He plays a viola from the workshop of Munich violin maker Peter Erben. Born in England into a family of German and English descent, Nicholas Rimmer (28) was a junior student at the Royal Northern College of Music later taking a degree in musicology at Clare College, Cambridge. He continued his piano studies with Christopher Oakden at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover.
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The
PARKHOUSE AWARD
International chamber music competition
for piano trios and piano quartets
for piano trios and piano quartets