JURY MEMBERS
The honorary jury members safeguard the impartial, fair, and transparent results of the competition.
Anja Lechner
Cellist
Anja Lechner performs as soloist with leading orchestras, as a chamber musician, and as creative participant in diverse projects between the genres. Composers who have written music for her range from Tigran Mansurian, Valentin Silvestrov, Tõnu Kõrvits, Hooshyar Khayam, Zad Moultaka to Dino Saluzzi.
The range of her musical interests is reflected in more than twenty albums for ECM Records.
Her recent releases include Quasi Parlando, music of T. Mansurian, with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Mirrors, music of T. Kõrvits, whose compositions she has premiered with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir under T. Kaljuste, and Lontano, featuring Lechner’s duo with French pianist Francois Couturier playing music of Giya Kancheli, Anouar Brahem, Ariel Ramirez beside their own music. Lechner and Couturier also collaborate in the Tarkovsky Quartet, with their third ECM album Nuit Blanche.
