Stulberg International String Competition

07/01/2025

SAVE THE DATES: Don't miss the return of the 2025 Stulberg medalists to Kalamazoo for their soloist debuts with our performance partners!

06/30/2025

Many of Stulberg's semifinalists, medalists, and applicants have been featured on NPR's classical music podcast - From the Top!

Check out this video of Oliver Mar (2025 Stulberg Bronze Medalist) performing Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto No. 2 alongside 2025 Stulberg Competition Host, and host of From the Top, Peter Dugan...

From the Top Fellow Aiden Bower (14, cello) and Host Peter Dugan (piano) perform Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30 - II. Lento - Andante tranquillo by ...

06/25/2025

06/20/2025

A round of applause for Zhang Financial and their sponsorship of 2025 Stulberg Judge Li-Wei Qin!

/PRNewswire/ -- The 50th Stulberg International String Competition, one of the world's premier classical music competitions for string players under 20,...

06/17/2025

Weren't able to make it to this year's historical competition? Luckily for you, highlight photos of the 2025 Stulberg International String Competition are available for you to view on the Stulberg website!

Check it out: https://www.stulberg.org/media/photos

06/11/2025

Two months later, we’re still buzzing about Stulberg’s 50th Anniversary Gala in Downtown Kalamazoo!

It was on this evening that the Stulberg community first heard Lucas Richman’s “Concerto for Violin No. 2: Legacy”—a piece which was integrated into the semifinals round of the Stulberg competition this past May.

Now, we look forward to welcoming the Stulberg Memorial Prize winner, Lauren Yoon, back to Kalamazoo on March 28th to perform the ENTIRE concerto alongside the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra!

Want to learn more about the upcoming performance? Check out the concert listing: https://bit.ly/45O7UVG

06/04/2025

“A Glowing Tone…” -The New York Times

GET TO KNOW AMIT PELED – CELLIST AND 2025 MASTER CLASS CLINICIAN:

An internationally renowned cellist, conductor and pedagogue Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in New York, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany.

Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels.

He is a cello professor at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and has performed in and presented master classes around the world, including at the Marlboro and Newport Music Festivals and the Heifetz International Music Summer Institute in the US, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in England, and Keshet Eilon in Israel.

Embracing the new online era, Peled has established the Amit Peled Online Cello Academy reaching out to hundreds of cellists all over the world.

Peled is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Mount Vernon Virtuosi, former Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland and enjoys a growing international conducting career with orchestras all across the globe.

He is represented worldwide by CTM Classics.
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Don’t miss Amit’s performance this Friday at the Dalton Center Recital Hall and a community master class on Saturday!

LEARN MORE (Concert - June 6th): https://secure.kalamazooarts.org/26139/26146
LEARN MORE (Master Class - June 7th): https://www.stulberg.org/swmf-events/peled

02/25/2025

🗓️MASTER CLASS APPLICATIONS OPEN THIS SATURDAY🗓️

Stulberg's 50th Annual Competition Master Classes (5/16)
CLINICIANS:
Rachel Barton Pine, violin
Caroline Coade, viola
Li-Wei Qin, cello

Amit Peled Master Class (6/7) - Co-Presented by Fontana Chamber Arts
CLINICIANS:
Amit Peled, cello

Apply and learn more at: https://www.stulberg.org/master-classes