All shall have prizes: Two Chinese wins
OrchestrasThe Chinese violinist Luo Chaowen, 23, won first prize at South Korea’s Isangyun Competition last night, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto. He’s studying at the Beijing central conservatory.
Saxophonist Jason Xu, 19, a Chinese-Canadian student at the University of Michigan, won the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal competition for woodwind and brass.
Unfortunately another case of politics. Chaowen Luo studied with jury member Weidong Tong
What a coincidence! What are the odds that a student of a jury member wins…..
Congratulations to Win 1 and Win 2.
Why are ‘the Chinese’ so incredibly good at Western classical music, which stems from a culture so fundamentally different from Chinese culture? Because it is an art form grounded in universal human nature, and on that level cultural or ethnic background of musicians is irrelevant.