Canadian pianist, 17, is Geneva winner

The Canadian pianist Kevin Chen, 17, won first Prize of the 76th Concours de Genève.

Sergey Belyavsky (Russia, 28) came second.

The jury was chaired by Janina Fialkowska, who is a fellow-Canadian.

Chen, who is from Calgary, also won several subsidiary prizes.

Janina writes: ‘Canada is on a roll! Once again a Canadian has won a major international piano competition. Last night as president of the jury of the Concours de Genève I was thrilled to be able to award 1st prize to Calgarian Kevin Chen . The 17 year old gave us fantastic performances and we Canadians should be very proud. I certainly am. Congratulations also to his teacher Marylin Engle of the
University of Calgary. ‘