All shall have prizes: Two Chinese wins

All shall have prizes: Two Chinese wins

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

November 10, 2024

The 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.

Comments

  • Politics says:

    Unfortunately another case of politics. Chaowen Luo studied with jury member Weidong Tong

  • Yura Garbitsch says:

    Congratulations to Win 1 and Win 2.

  • John Borstlap says:

    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.

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