The jury, without revealing the proportions of their split, divided the first prize in Hanover last night between Angela Chan, 27, from Hong Kong and the 19-year-old Canadian Jacques Forestier.
The Canadian came away with the better share of going-home prizes – a Warner Classics recording, a 1765 Guadagnini to play for the next three years and, overwhelmingly, the audience prize.
Chan got the tight to call herself co-winner.
The jurors were: Juliane Banse (chair), Lorenza Borrani, Liza Ferschtman, Kim Kashkashian, András Keller, Gidon Kremer, Alexander Lonquich, Feng Ning, Kathrin Rabus and Stephan Zilias.
This was a total fudge. A jury that cannot makwe up its collective mind should be sent home unpaid.
EDITORIAL: When a jury can’t make up its mind
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