Wilhelm Stenhammar Competition ends on a high note

First Prize went to soprano Matilda Sterby from Stockholm, who is also recipient of the 2024 Birgit Nilsson Stipendium. 

Matilda Sterby has quickly established herself both at home in Sweden and abroad. After completing her studies at the Stockholm Academy of Opera, she sang Fiordilidgi in a 2020 streamed performance of Così fan tutte, followed in 2022 by Marenka in The Bartered Bride, both at the Gothenburg Opera. This season she makes her Malmö Opera debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and as Magda, the female lead, in La Rondine at the Volksoper Wien. She has also also performed Mimì in La Bohème and Micaëla in Carmen in Karlsruhe and the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro in Hannover and Klagenfurt.

Upcoming engagements include Fiordiligi in Malmö and Micäela at Gothenburg Opera, and in 2025 she performs The Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at the Volksoper Vienna, before returning to Gothenburg for performances as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes.

Matilda was the 2022 recipient of the the Schymberg Award and a finalist in the 2024 Royal Swedish Academy of Music’s presitious Soloist Prize.

Second Prize went to Celine Mun (30), a graduate of Yonsei University and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), while Third Prize was awarded to Mathilda Bryngelsson of Malmö, Sweden.

Much more than just a competition, “the Stenhammar” also includes masterclasses and a lively 7-day music festival in Norrköping.
The next Wilhelm Stenhammar international Music Competition -its 10^th edition- will be held in 2026.

Prizes:
1st Prize: Matilda Sterby (33), Stockholm
2nd Prize: Celine Mun (30), Vienna
3rd prize: Mathilda Bryngelsson, Malmö

Jury:
Karin Veres (Chair), Nader Abbassi, Franziska M. Kaiser, Georges Delnon, Göran Gademan, Erki Pehk, Conductor, Robert Körner

Artists:
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra / Nader Abbassi (Conductor)

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