Master theses of Jan Zvěřina titled " ARD International Cello Competition - History and Winners " is devoted to this prestigious competition describing for example it´s history, currentrules and prices. In addition, by form of a semi-structured interview this theses intermediates experiences and memories of three winners of such competition, namely Wolfgang Boettcher, Michal Kaňka and Julia Steckel. It is the aim of such interviews to determine whether there is any interconnection in theirv individual successes. For this reason, the interviews focus mainly on the preperation of cellists before actual competition, but they bring also experiences from the actual competition and answer the question what ARD competition brought these winners.

In my diploma thesis I give an overview and information about the international trombone competitions. First chapter is reserved for European competitions. There are mentioned some facts like time intervals after which are the competitions repeated, time periods and locations of performance, entrance conditions and information about the organisers. Second chapter is organised in the same way and includes the competitions outside Europe. In the third chapter are implemented brief biographies of the current most sought-after jurors of the interpretative competitions.