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Tonali (written: TONALi) is a cultural project based in Hamburg which has been awarded several prizes like the ECHO Klassik in 2017 and aims to support the musical new generation. Founded in 2009 by the cellists Amadeus Templeton and Boris Matchin, TONALi was in the beginning a music competition. Since that time, TONALi has developped to an internationally acknowledged, all year project that cooperates with approved concert halls, Festivals, schools of music and universities. Honorary president is Christoph Eschenbach. The project has developped under the patronage of Monika Grütters et all.

Competition
Since 2010, heart oft the project is the instrumental competition. The prize under the patronage of Christoph Eschenbach, endowed with 30.000 Euro, is yearly and alternatively announced for cello, violin and piano. Precondition to participate is that the young musicians study in Germany, Switzerland or Austria and are aged between 16 and 21  years. The winners of the competition receive prize money up to 18.000 Euro. The main prizes are sponsored by the Oscar-und-Vera-Ritter-Stiftung since 2010. The first prize is endowed with 10.000 Euro, the second prize with 5.000 and the third with 3.000 Euro. Additionally to that, there is a creative prize endowed with 6.000 Euro, the Mieczysław-Weinberg-prize endowed with 3.000 Euro and sponsored by Peermusic Classical, as well as a public prize, endowed with 3.000 Euro that is given by the public, voting via SMS during the final. During the competition, the musicians need to play three preliminary rounds. Since 2015, there is a Tonali-Festival alongside the competition. Concerts, that are played in extraordinary places in the evenings after the preliminary rounds are created by former and recent Tonali-participants.

public academy
Part of the project and special feature of Tonali is the public academy. This academy encourages teenagers to learn basics of music management. 500 „student-manager“, trained by the academy, organize around 100 classical concerts in 50 schools all year round for 40.000 classmates, as well as their parents, acquaintances and friends. Those concerts of the Tonali-academy take place both in schools and outside. Goal of the public academy is the partake of the young generation in classical music that is played and communicated by highly trained musicians of the same age. All activities of the academy lead to the urban Tonali-Festival „Classic in your Kiez“, that takes place since 2014 in twelf extraordinary places like clubs, theaters and cultural halls every year in november in Hamburg.

Part of the public academy is the Tutticontest. With this contest, the „student-managers“ promote the final concert of the competition. The school, occupying most of the places, wins a culture prize.

composition competition
Every year, Tonali awards a composition prize. Participating composers need to live in Germany, Austria or Switzerland and must be younger than 40 years. Submitted must be a solo piece for the instrument of the yearly competition. An internationally acknowledged jury identifies all received documents and appoints the winner of the Tonali-composition-prize in the beginning of the Tonali-year.

The composition of the winner will be played twice during the Tonali-festival and competition and is edited by the Hans Sikorski Musikverlagen. The composition prize is endowed with 4.000 Euro and sponsored by the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung: Each of the finalists receives a prize of 1.000 Euro, the winning composition is awarded additionally 1.000 Euro.

Classic in your Kiez
Since 2014, there is the urban Tonali-Festival „Classic in your Kiez“, that takes place as a cooperation with twelf organizations in Hamburg in november. The 12 experimental and interdisciplinary concerts take place in concert halls, clubs and theaters in Hamburg, like the Ritze“ on the Reeperbahn in 2017. For all of those 12 locations, around 100 „student-managers“ develop organizational frames, as well as ideas for marketing and public campaigns for the concerts. Everything is based on the principles of the festival: Students organize, play, listen. The focus of the programme of the festivals is the instrument oft he yearly competition, which means alternatingly piano, violin and cello.

Tonali-hall
The Tonali-hall in Hamburg was inaugurated with a concert on the 24. of january in 2018 by the violinist Lisa Batiashvili and the Tonalist Elene Meipariani as well as NDR Kultur. The hall was constructed in 1890 as horse stable and serves now as a fully equipped concert hall for around 100 persons with a foyer, a bar, toilets and a terrace. The calendar is full of regular concerts, workshops, presentations and seminars. In 2018, there have been around 40 concerts. The hall is located in the quarter „Grindel“ Grindelviertel in Hamburg (Kleiner Kielort 3–5).

agency
In 2016 the nonprofit agency TONALiSTEN was founded by Tonali, Harrison Parrott (Sabine Frank) and Hanni Liang. The special feature of the agency is based in a circulation system that stimulates cultural education in three steps: Patrons sponsor the agency, the agency promotes young musicians, those musicians construct a new classical public. All of this takes place in a nonprofit environment. Until the end of 2016, around 35 Tonalisten have been taken in the agency and have been contracted in cooperations with Festspielen Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Tonhalle Zürich, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Podium Festival Esslingen, Kopenhagen Summer Festival, Capetown Philharmonics, Mariinsky-Theater St. Petersburg or Ferrara Musica. In 2017 the Tonalisten-agency owns a „culture share“ which supplies foundations, patrons and festivals with the return of „cultural education“.

Tonali Tour
The „Tonali Tour“ was developped as a pedagogical project, to interest teenagers also outside Hamburg based on the Tonali-principle for classical music. Therefore, Tonalisten of the agency play chamber music concerts worldwide. „Student-managers“ are trained in their home city by Tonali and/ or a local concert organizer, to take over artist management, publicity and the process of the concert. Until now, partners have been located in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Danmark, Russia, Poland, USA, Great Britain and China: 42 music institutions like festivals, concerts and concert halls, 80 schools; 1200 teenager managers; 120 concerts in schools, arund 80.000 reached children and students. The foundation PwC sponsores the national Tonali-Tour, the foundation Nordmetall-Stiftung sponsores projects in northern Germany.

Artistic advisory council
The artistic advisory council is represented by prominent artists like Lisa Batiashvili, Martin Grubinger, Janine Jansen, Paavo Järvi, Igor Levit and Kirill Petrenko. Its function is representive: Aspects of the competition programme are debated, but also chosen musicians of Tonali personally presented.

prizes

 * 2009 special prize of the Oscar und Vera Ritter-Stiftung (4.000 Euro)
 * 2011 special price for successfull interdisciplinary networking and support of young artists by the Prof. Wolfgang and Isolde Stabenow-foundation (5.000 Euro)
 * 2013 Ritter-Preis (15.000 Euro)
 * 2014 Culture prize of the Gunter and Juliane Ribke-Stiftung (25.000 Euro)
 * 2014 mixed up / BKJ and the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend / Finalist
 * 2015 Hamburger Preis für Kultur-Kommunikation (3.000 Euro)
 * 2016 Classical:NEXT 2016 Innovation Award / Shortlist
 * 2017 ECHO Klassik (prize for promoting the younger generation)

Tonali10 | violin
The premier of the first Tonali-competition took place on the 27. August 2010 in the Alfred-Schnittke-Akademie, the final was on the 29. August in the Laeiszhalle.
 * Instrumentalwettbewerb
 * winner: Christina Brabetz (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Florian Donderer (violinist, Germany)


 * composition prize
 * winner: Robert Krampe
 * chair of the commission: Ruta Paidere (composer, Lettland)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Gesamtschule Bergedorf

Tonali12 | cello
Tonali12 started on the 20. of august 2012 with the opening concert in the church St. Johannis-Harvestehude. The final was on the 25. August in the Laeiszhalle
 * competition
 * winner: Alexey Stadler (Russia)
 * chair of the commission: Helge Antoni (pianist, Sweden)


 * composition prize
 * winner: Gerald Resch (composer, Austria)
 * chair of the commission: Ruta Paidere (composer, Lettland)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Johannes-Brahms-Schule Pinneberg

Tonali13 | piano
Tonali13 was opened on the 26. August 2013 with a concert in the church St.-Johannis. The final was on the 1. September in the Laeiszhalle.


 * competition
 * winner: Elisabeth Brauß (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Ariel Zuckermann conductor, Israel)


 * composition prize
 * winner: Daniel Smutny (composer, Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Ruta Paidere (composer, Lettland)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Walddörfer-Gymnasium Hamburg

Tonali14 | violin
Tonali14 was opened on the 1. september 2014 in the church St.-Johannis. The final concert with the Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen took place on the 6. september in the Laeiszhalle.
 * competition
 * winner: Leonard Fu (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Florian Donderer (violinist, conductor, Germany)


 * composition prize
 * winner: Martin Sadowski (composer, Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Ruta Paidere (composer, Lettland)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Johannes-Brahms-Schule Pinneberg

Tonali15 | cello
Tonali15 was opened on the 14. july 2015 in the church St.-Johannis and ended on the 19. july in the Laeiszhalle.
 * competition
 * 1) prize: Anastasia Kobekina (Russia)
 * 2) prize: Maciej Kulakowski (Poland)
 * 3) prize: Friedrich Thiele (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cellist, conductor, Germany)


 * composition-prize
 * winner: Sebastian Bahr (composer, Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Fabian Müller (composer, Switzerland)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Johannes-Brahms-Schule Pinneberg

Tonali16 | piano
Tonali16 was opened on the 11. july 2016 in the church St.-Johannis and ended on the 16. july in the Laeiszhalle.
 * competition
 * 1) prize: Till Hoffmann (Germany)
 * 2) prize: Viktor Soos (Germany)
 * 3) prize: Daniel Golod (Israel)
 * chair of the commission: Matthias Kirschnereit (pianist, Germany)


 * composition-prize
 * winner: Steven Heelein (composer, Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Benjamin Schweitzer (composer, Germany)


 * Tutticontest
 * winner-school: Stadtteilschule Süderelbe

Tonali17 | violin
Tonali17 was opened on the 3. july 2017 in the church St.-Johannis with a concert titeled „Stay on the carpet“. The final on the 8. july under the baton of Daniel Blendulf with the „Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie“ took place for the first time in the big hall of the Elbphilharmonie ref>
 * competition
 * 1) prize: Lara Boschkor (Germany)
 * 2) prize: Anne Maria Wehrmeyer (Germany)
 * 3) prize: Elene Meipariani (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Tanja Becker-Bender (violin, Germany)


 * composition- prize
 * winner: Tomasz Skweres (composer, Poland)
 * chair of the commission: Elmar Lampson (composer, Germany)

Tonali18 | cello
Tonali18 was opened on the 25. june 2018 in the main church St. Michaelis with a concert titeled „PartiT(o)ur of the city of music Hamburg“. The final on the 30 of june with the Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the baton of Joshua Weilerstein in the big hall of the Elbphilharmonie was broadcast live by NDR Kultur.
 * competition
 * 1) prize: Sebastian Fritsch (Germany)
 * 2) prize: Bryan Cheng (Canada)
 * 3) prize: Manuel Lipstein (Germany)
 * chair of the commission: Tanja Tetzlaff (cello, Germany)


 * composition-prize
 * winner: Michaela Catranis (composer, USA)
 * chair of the commission: Moritz Eggert (composer, Germany)

Tonali19 | piano
The final with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under the baton of Elim Chan in the big hall of the Elbphilharmonie on the 22. June was broadcast live by NDR Kultur.
 * competition
 * 1) prize:
 * 2) prize:
 * 3) prize:
 * chair of the commission:


 * composition-prize
 * winner: Judit Varga (composer, Hungary)
 * chair of the commission: Manfred Trojahn (composer, Germany)

Weblinks

 * Offizielle Homepage. Abgerufen am 10. August 2017
 * Interview mit Amadeus Templeton & Boris Matchin auf der Website von Deutschlandradio Kultur. 22. November 2017