UK trumpet wins Prague Spring

Many, many congratulations to those talented young musicians !

Thank you for the great news !
Though I already knew about it, it’s good to see it here again.

I watched the live streaming of Park’s performance, but haven’t seen the trumpet yet.
Park’s final performance was the only one I watched and it was just purely by chance.
It was good and the audience’s reaction was enthusiastic, so I wasn’t surprised when I heard the results.
But I was so surprised when I heard that at this year’s Prague piano competition, first, second and third prizes all went to Koreans.
( Second was shared with a Czech contestant and I think there’ll be another piece of good news for the Czech Republic from somewhere soon. )

The piano winners are here :
http://www.festival.cz/en/news_detail/winners_of_the_piano_competition_are_known

The trumpet winners are here :
http://www.festival.cz/en/news_detail/winners_of_the_trumpet_competition_are_known

This year’s Prague Spring Festival was opened by another Korean artist, last year’s Chopin winner Seong-Jin Cho.
Apparently, Seong-Jin gave an amazing and fantastic recital of Mozart, Schubert and Chopin (including another Schubert piece, Liszt and Bach for encores) and the Prague audience competely went wild with excitement.

If anyone is intersted in it, take a look at the reviews in Czech.
If you are not good at Czech, you can use Google Translate any time.

As one of the critics said at the end of his review, it seems that it really was the excellent start of this year’s Prague Spring Festival and the International Prague Piano Competition.

http://www.klaviatura.cz/recenze-vitez-chopinovy-souteze-nadchl-prahu-prazske-jaro-oficialne-zacalo/

google translation into English :
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ko&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.klaviatura.cz%2Frecenze-vitez-chopinovy-souteze-nadchl-prahu-prazske-jaro-oficialne-zacalo%2F&edit-text=

http://www.casopisharmonie.cz/kritiky/seznamte-se-seong-jin-cho.html

google translation into English :
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=ko&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.casopisharmonie.cz%2Fkritiky%2Fseznamte-se-seong-jin-cho.html&edit-text=

So many talented people in such a small country but the government is doing almost nothing good.