Victor Julien-Laferrière has won the 2017 Queen Elisabeth cello competition! The winner of the International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize – Queen Mathilde Prize receives 25.000 EUR and numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad.
The prizewinners
First Prize : Victor Julien-Laferrière
Second Prize : Yuya Okamoto
Third Prize : Santiago Cañón-Valencia
Fourth Prize : Aurélien Pascal
Fifth Prize : Ivan Karizna
Sixth Prize : Brannon Cho
The six unranked laureates, in alphabetical order : Sihao He, Seungmin Kang, Maciej Kulakowski, JeongHyoun Christine Lee, Yan Levionnois and Bruno Philippe.
An overview of the prizes is presented on the competition’s website in the Cello 2017 menu.
Ivan Karizna has won both prizes of the public (Prix Musiq’3 and Canvas-Klaraprijs).
Would you like to hear the laureates at work?
The 4 CD box “Cello 2017” will be available as of Saturday 10 June, containing works performed by the laureates during the first round, the semi-final and the final of the cello competition. Order your copy now to benefit from a special offer!
You can also watch and listen to their performances on the competition’s website.
And for those who want to hear them perform live, the laureates will present themselves to the public during a series of concerts.
