Brussels: Queen Elisabeth Competition 2017: cello!

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For all those who like the cello ...and competitions...:

Queen Elisabeth Competition: 08 > 20.05.17

Following the success of its 2016 piano edition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition is delighted to present, for the very first time, a cello competition. By and large, this new session follows the pattern of the other two instrumental competitions. The first public round is a recital, solo or accompanied this time by piano and by a second cello in a Boccherini sonata. The semi-final includes a recital and a concerto by Boccherini or Haydn, accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie. We are all looking forward eagerly to the new competition for the cello, an instrument that speaks directly to the heart!

http://cmireb.be/cgi?lg=en

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Here are the 12 finalists:

Santiago Cañón-Valencia (Columbia), Brannon Cho (USA), Sihao He (China), Victor Julien-Laferrière (France), Seungmin Kang (Korea), Ivan Karizna (Belarus), Maciej Kułakowski (Poland), JeongHyoun (Christine) Lee (Korea), Yan Levionnois (France), Yuya Okamoto (Japan), Aurélien Pascal (france), Bruno Philippe (France).

They wil play - starting tonight - a new concertante work by Toshio Hosokawa, "Sublimation"... and Dvorak, Chostakovitch 1, Schumann.... ( Brussels Philharmonic / Denève)




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[Spineur]

Victor Julien Laferriere won the first prize.
They are editing a 4 CD boxset with some of the best performances during the competition.  It contains a very interesting selection from the repertoire.  I will get it.

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...and let's hope that in 4 years time ( the Queen Elisabeth competition alternates piano - violin - voice) the cellists have discovered that not only Dvorak, Chostakovitch and Schumann wrote a concerto.

The piece by Hosokawa wasn't bad at all.

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