Miranda Nordqvist, a student at the Royal College of Music, receives this year's Jan Wallander Prize. This gives her the opportunity to play a viola made in 1830 in Cremona over the next nine years. She will be the first scholarship holder to use this instrument, which has recently been acquired.
"Since all instruments are so different, it's as if each viola has a personality. I've always been drawn to the slightly darker, which is why I switched from violin to viola," she explains in a press release.
This year's prize winner was selected by an international jury consisting of violist Maria Winiarski, violinist Avri Levitan, and pianist Staffan Scheja.
