Just in: French cellist wins Queen Elisabeth competition
mainThe news from Brussels is that Victor Julien-Laferriére has been named winner.
He receives 25,000 Euros.
The second prize goes to Yuya Okamoto.
Third was the Colombian, Santiago Cañón-Valencia.
Full results below:
1er Prix – Grand Prix International Reine Elisabeth – Prix Reine Mathilde (25.000€)
– Victor Julien-Laferrière
2e Prix – Prix du Gouvernement fédéral belge, offert par la Politique scientifique fédérale – Prix Eugène Ysaÿe (20.000 €)
– Yuya Okamoto
3e Prix – Prix Comte de Launoit (17.000€)
– Santiago Cañón-Valencia
4e Prix – Prix des Gouvernements Communautaires de Belgique, offert cette année par le Gouvernement de la Communauté germanophone (12.500€)
– Aurélien Pascal
5e Prix – Prix de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale (10.000€)
– Ivan Karizna
6e Prix – Prix de la Ville de Bruxelles (8.000€)
– Brannon Cho
Lauréats non classés par ordre alphabétique (4.000 € – Offerts par la Loterie nationale)
– Sihao He
– Seungmin Kang
– Maciej Kulakowski
– Christine Lee
– Yan Levionnois
– Bruno Philippe
*In addition to the monetary awards, prizes 1 through 6 also award concert bookings to the respective winners.
The 1st and 2nd prizes include a CD recording on top of the monetary and concert awards.
Not surprising that he won. Victor Julien-Laferriére is a major talent and the current crop of young French cellists is impressive indeed.
Bravo for Victor Julien-Leferriére. I know him from his several chamber music recordings with the marvelous pianist Adam Laloum. This is good news indeed.
This Victor was indeed victorious for the right reasons. I heard/saw him on Belgian TV, what he did wat totally convincing and very impressive. Especially if you consider the music as such.