{"id":42210,"date":"2026-01-03T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/?post_type=cmim-competitors&p=42210"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:59:09","slug":"michael-germer","status":"publish","type":"cmim-competitors","link":"https:\/\/concoursmontreal.ca\/en\/competitors\/michael-germer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Germer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span><\/i><\/b>I love that the violin is such a personal instrument. You can do so much to\u00a0personalize\u00a0your sound and\u00a0expression. That search for getting what you hear in your inner ear out of the violin is a\u00a0fantastic,\u00a0never quite ending journey!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n

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Michael Germer has won success at concerts and competitions internationally with his natural musicianship and his warm, sensual tone. He studied at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University under Dora Schwarzberg and is currently pursuing an artist diploma with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. Michael started playing the violin at the age of 4, thanks to his father. \u201cMy dad had played a\u00a0concert in Riga\u00a0and noticed a small music shop\u00a0with a tiny violin in the window,\u00a0which he brought home\u00a0for\u00a0me. I walked around with it for a year until I started playing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael is a laureate of numerous international competitions, such as the Khachaturian International Competition (Second Prize and Prize for Best Interpretation of Paganini, 2020), the Concours international Arthur Grumiaux (First Prize, 2018), and the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition (First Prize, 2018). Since he was the youngest semifinalist at the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in 2019, he was offered to be represented by Nordic Artists Management, which has represented him since. Michael was also awarded the P2 Talent Prize of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in 2022 and the Gladsaxe Musikpris 2023. Previously, he was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Grant and the Jacob Gade Grant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a soloist, he has played with the Turin Symphony Orchestra, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Webern Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Phil, the \u00c5rhus Symphony Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Concerto Copenhagen, and collaborated with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Lahav Shani, Felix Mildenberger, Pierre Bleuse, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Gabrielle Teychenn\u00e9, and Vladimir Kiradjiev. In 2021, Michael made his debut in the Danish Radio Concert Hall playing Saint-Saens’ third Violin Concerto under the baton of Marc Soustrot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Festivals have taken\u00a0him\u00a0all over Europe, where he has collaborated with Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Enrico Pace, Natalie Clein, Marianna Shirinyan, Katrine Gislinge, Silke\u00a0Avenhaus, Den Danske\u00a0Strygekvartet,\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0Trio Con Brio Copenhagen.\u00a0His concerts have been broadcast live on Austria\u2019s national radio \u2013 ORF, on DR P2 and on medici.tv.\u00a0The Concours\u00a02026 marks\u00a0his\u00a0debut in\u00a0North\u00a0America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Larsen Strings Artist, Michael plays on a 1772 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini lent by the Augustinus Foundation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
<\/strong>Sonata for Violin and continuo in D major, Op. 9, No. 3<\/p>\n