Recorder31 Day 28 | Introducing the SRP/Moeck Competition Finalists

Today we're thrilled to be involved in the announcement of the three finalists of this year's Society of Recorder Players / Moeck Solo Recorder Competition. Exclusively for Recorder31, we are delighted to share a video introducing the finalists and a little bit about their backgrounds and the programmes they will perform in November.

This year's finalists, as selected by the panel of judges Dorothee Oberlinger (chair), William Lyons and Peter Kofler, are:

Lucas Biegel, Olivia Petryszak & Eun Sol Lee

We're grateful to them all for taking the time to answer our questions. Watch below to find out more about them all:

About the competition

The premier competition for young recorder soloists is the biennial Society of Recorder Players / Moeck competition. The aim is to encourage young players of talent, and to help them in their professional aspirations. Competitors must show that they are able to sustain a full recital programme at a professional level. The Competition is international and entries are welcomed from recorder players of a suitable standard who are under thirty years of age on 1st November in the year of the Competition. Find out more by clicking here.

The final of this prestigious competition takes place on Friday 14th November 2025 at 2pm. Tickets are available online here.

About the finalists

Lucas Biegel is currently studying recorder in the concert class of Prof. Dorothee Oberlinger, Matthijs Lunenburg and Olga Watts at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. Concert engagements have taken him to the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music (AT) and the Handel Festival Halle (DE). In February 2020 he was a finalist at the third Tel Aviv International Recorder Competition (IL) and in 2024 at the German Music Competition in Bonn (DE). In March 2025 he won the special prize of MDR Klassik on the occasion of the German Music Competition in Leipzig (DE). His recorder teachers included Marion Franke (Musikschule Heinrich Schütz Gera) from 2003 to 2012, Katharina Schumann (Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere Weimar) from 2012 to 2015 and Prof. Myriam Eichberger (Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) from 2015 to 2016. From 2016 to 2022, he studied school music with recorder as his main subject at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. He received recorder lessons from Anna Januj, Sheng-Fang Chiu and Prof. Robert Ehrlich.

British-Polish recorder player Olivia Petryszak is a celebrated recorder player across Europe and further, known for her distinctive sound and approach to music-making. Olivia works regularly as a collaborator, improviser, arranger and composer in a variety of settings. A graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Akademia Muzyczna w Krakowie, Olivia’s playing has so far taken her to perform across Europe, with leading ensembles and opera companies including The Academy of Ancient Music, Opera North, Capella Cracoviensis, Polska Opera Królewska and as part of the band at Shakespeare’s Globe. Olivia is dedicated to improving the reputation of the recorder, not only through her own writing and performance but also in the commissioning of new works and in her published writing on the perception of the instrument and how we can improve it.

Eun Sol Lee was born in 2002 in Seoul, South Korea. At age 12, she started playing the recorder under the tutelage of Jeong Sook Park, Miran Cha, and Jinhee Cho. In 2016, after only two years of studying the recorder, Sol won the biggest competition for recorder in Korea, the Chuncheon National Recorder Competition. In 2019, Sol was accepted into the Bachelor Program at the University of Music and Performing Art Vienna in the studio of Carsten Eckert and graduated with honours in 2023. She is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the studio of Dorothee Oberlinger. Sol is passionate about chamber music as a member of the recorder consort AS TIME GOES BY – A New Consort of Music and the recorder duo Duo[.]Punkt. Over the past few years, she has performed all over Europe and Asia, including Vienna, Berlin, Bratislava, Seoul, and Tokyo. Building on this international experience, the debut album of AS TIME GOES BY – A New Consort of Music will be released in the second half of 2025.

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