The double bass category of the fifty-eighth Markneukirchen Competition, which is held annually with instrument categories alternating each year, has recently arrive to a close. Three double bassists advanced to the final, they performed Bottesini's First Double Bass Concerto alongside the Clara-Schumann Philharmonic and conductor Leo Siberski. The finalists had been ed following the third round, seven players were whittled down to three. First Prize went to the 25-year-old Portuguese bassist José Trigo. Trigo studied with Petru Iuga at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, during which time he gained orchestral experience as a member of the European Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

Trigo has been an academist with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In two thousand-nineteenth, he won a full-time position with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and received his master's degree the Hochschule für Musik Nuremberg, he studied with Dorin Marc, in two thousand twenty-second. Trigo receives a cash prize of €7.000, which is sponsored by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony. He'll also carry out as a soloist with the Chursächsische Philharmonie of Horrible Elster. 26-year-old Hong Yiu Thomas Lai received Second Prize of €5.000, while Third Prize of €3.500 went to the 24-year-old German bassist Moritz Tunn.