Emanuel Blumin-Sint, Matvey Demin, Alexey Stadler
Biography Emanuel Blumin-Sint, Matvey Demin, Alexey Stadler
Emanuel Blumin-Sint
winner of the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize 2024, was born in Madrid in 2004 and grew up in Ireland and Germany. He began piano lessons with Elisaveta Blumina at the age of 4 and bassoon lessons with Prof Mathias Baier in Berlin at the age of 9. Emanuel won first prize with the highest score at the national competition ‘Jugend musiziert’ and has won first prize at 13 international music competitions, such as the Muse Competition in Athens, the ‘Peregrinos Musicales’ in Spain and the International Music Competition in Stockholm. In Russia, he won the ‘Grand Prix’ at the international competition for woodwinds ‘Northern Rhapsody’ and was invited to play with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Emanuel has also performed as a soloist in the Elbphilharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus and has played with orchestras such as the Loh Orchestra and the Real Filharmonía de Galicia. As a member of the German National Youth Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra, Emanuel has played under the direction of Kent Nagano and Kirill Petrenko. Emanuel Sint has been studying with Rainer Luft at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin since April 2023. Valentin Silvestrov - Ukraine's greatest contemporary composer - dedicated his first and so far only composition for bassoon to Emanuel in 2023.
