2024 Radda Rise International String Competition
Eliane Menzel
Second Prize
•Violin and Viola Division of Category 4
Eliane Menzel, born in 1999 and raised in Germany, was a student of Prof. Katrin Scholz in the pre-college division at the Academy of Arts Bremen from 2008-2017. She was concertmaster of the German Youth String Orchestra from 2014-2018, with whom she performed concert tours throughout Europe. In 2015 she did a broadcast production of S.Saëns, Rondo Capricciso at the NDR Hamburg which was transmitted in 2016. In the same year she won the 1st prize at the VIII International competition "Szymon Goldberg".
She attended the Manhattan School of Music in the "Zukerman Performance Program" with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec from 2018-2022. After the completion of her Bachelor of Music degree she attended the Juilliard School of Music were she studied with Joel Smirnoff and earned her Master of Music degree in 2024. She has been a DAAD scholarship recipient from 2022-2024 and is part of the Gluck fellowship 2023-2024. In January 2024 Eliane was awarded 1st prize at the Ann & Charles Eisemann International Young Artists Competition for Strings.
She has attended Festivals such as the "Young Artists Program" founded by Pinchas Zukerman, the “Heifetz International Music Institute" and the “Keshet Eilon Mastercourse“ as well as masterclasses with Rachel Podger, Rainer Honeck, Silvia Marcovici, Igor Ozim,Hagai Shaham, Shmuel Ashkenasy, Ilya Kaler and Itzhak Rashkovsky. As a soloist Eliane Menzel has performed with orchestras such as the Oldenburger Schlossorchester, Kammersinfonie Oldenburg, MainKammerorchester Frankfurt, the Ensemble Bremen-Frankfurt, the Oldenburg State Orchestra and the Richardson Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has also performed at the German Embassy in Ottawa and in the German Embassy in New York as well as in Weil Hall, Carnegie Hall.
Eliane is co-founder and artistic director of the “Schlosskonzerte Neuenburg” series along with her father, oboist Fabian Menzel. This concert series takes place in the Neuenburg Castle in their hometown in Germany with numerous performances every year, and at the beginning of the pandemic they have started to livestream the concerts. Their repertoire presents music from baroque to modern style, including world premieres of Compositions commissioned for them.