Linos Piano Trio and Noga Quartet named winners of competition’s seventh outing.

The finals of the Seventh Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition have seen the Linos Piano Trio and Noga Quartet come out victorious. After five days of preliminary rounds at South Melbourne Town Hall, sixteen original ensembles from all around the globe were whittled down to just the six who performed Melbourne Recital Centre on Saturday. The prestigious awards are among the most respected and high profile competitions for chamber music anywhere in the world.

Competing in the Piano Trio Final, the Linos performed Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor, while Trio Medici, who placed second, also played Ravel work and Schubert’s Notturno in E Flat Major. In third place were Trio Adorno with Dvořák’s Dumky.

The String Quartet Final saw the Noga Quartet tackle Bartók’s Fifth, the Giocoso String Quartet’s renditions of Mendelssohn’s Sixth and Schubert’s Quartettsatz placed them second, and in third the Verona Quartet who played Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.

As part of the competition each ensemble was also required to perform the winning work from the relevant stream of the Australian New Works Award. For the piano trios this was...