Congratulations to Yulianna Beziazychna for winning the second prize in the 2nd annual Kronberg International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, a very demanding competition with competitors from 204 applications from 37 countries all over the world. After the selection, 66 pianists from 17 countries arrived in Kronberg.
Congratulations Akari Bastiaens for winning the 1st Prize, Public Prize and Concerto Prize at the regional final of the Princess Christina Competition in Den Bosch! She’ll get to perform as soloist next season with the Philips Symfonie Orkest.
Akari is a student of Tatiana Abayeva and Borys Fedorov at the Davidsbündler Music Academy as well as Joop Celis at the Maastricht Conservatory.
Congratulations to Ivan Petrenko (16, Ukraine) who won the 2nd prize in the Robert Schumann Competition for Young Pianists in Düsseldorf, Germany with no 1st prize awarded! Watch his performance from the final of three rounds in Mozart's Piano Concerto KV488 in A Major, first movement with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra and conductor Roc Fargas i Castells. Ivan is a student of Tatiana Abayeva and Borys Fedorov at the Davidsbündler Music Academy.
