Twenty years ago, the former president and honorary president of the University of Music Würzburg, the well-known composer and Würzburg cultural prize winner Bertold Hummel (1925-2002) died. For a competition organized by the University of Music Würzburg and the Bertold Hummel Foundation, which aims to encourage young generations of musicians to engage with the composer's work, students from various European conservatories have been coming to Würzburg every two to three years since 2005 to demonstrate their skills in front of an audience and an international jury of experts and to determine their own position. After the subjects violin, violoncello, percussion, organ, bassoon, piano, flute, saxophone and harp, virtuoso trumpet music will be the focus of the events in the anniversary year 2022 from November 18–20.

The jury of Professors Frits Damrow (Zurich), Jürgen Ellensohn (Würzburg), Andreas Lackner (Innsbruck) and Hannes Läubin (Munich), chaired by the President of the University of Music Würzburg, Prof. Dr. Christoph Wünsch, will evaluate the musical performances over two days in the Chamber Music Hall and award prize money of € 6,000. In addition to classics of the trumpet repertoire, the compulsory pieces of the competition include Hummel's Sonatine op. 1 from 1950 and a trio for trumpet, piano, and percussion from 1984. The public competition will conclude with a matinée of the prize winners in the presence of the patron, Prof. Dr. Hans Maier (former Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture).

• Further information about the competition