Innsbruck Festival of Early Music Announces 16th Cesti Competition Winners
By Afton Markay(Photo credit: Birgit Pichler)
Tenor Salvador Simão has won the 16th annual Cesti Competition at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.
A total of 206 participants from 39 nations registered for this year’s Cesti Competition. Nearly 100 of them traveled to Innsbruck for the in-person competition. On Aug. 31, 10 finalists performed at the grand finale concert held at the Haus der Musik Innsbruck in front of a packed house. Several thousand viewers also attended via livestream.
Singers presented, among others, an aria from Handel’s opera “Atalanta.” The first prize along with the audience award and an engagement with resonances Vienna went to tenor Simão. Second prize was awarded to mezzo-soprano Magdalena Hinz. Baritone Pierre Gennaï took home third prize and the Young Talent Prize.
Baritone Jonathan Eyers secured an engagement with Il Gusto Barocco and Jörg Halubek. Participation in the 2025 Festwochen Masterclass with Anna Bonitatibus was awarded to five other participants from the first and second rounds of the competition. Soprano Lila Dufy won an engagement with the Potsdam-Sanssouci Music Festival.
The jury featured Ottavio Dantone, Anna Bonitatibus, Francesco Corti, Nathan Morrison, Franziska M. Kaiser, and Jean Denes. Sebastian Schwarz served as jury chair.
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