Following 4 days of performances, the winners of the 2022 Wigmore Corridor/Bollinger Worldwide Tune Competitors have been introduced.
The First Prize of £10,000 was awarded to the 24-year-old British singer Laurence Kilsby (pictured). An alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Royal School of Music, Kilsby was not too long ago awarded first prize on the thirteenth Worldwide Singing Competitors for Baroque Opera ‘Pietro Antonio Cesti’. He has joined the Académie at Opera Nationwide de Paris for the 2022/23 season.
The Second prize of £5000 went to the 31-year-old Swedish baritone Arvid Fagerfjäll, whereas Third Prize of £2,500 went to the 34-year-old American tenor John Matthew Myers, who additionally received the £3,000 Richard Tauber Prize for one of the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder A Particular Prize of £1000 was specifically created for the 27-year-old German mezzo-soprano Susan Zarrabi.
The £2,000 Vaughan Williams Tune Prize for one of the best interpretation of songs in English by a British composer went to the 26-year-old Brazilian bass-baritone Vinicius Costa. The 29-year-old Korean bass-baritone Jeeyoung Lim and 24-year-old Austrian pianist Benedikt Holter have been awarded the Britten Pears Younger Artist Programme Prize price £2,000. The 28-year previous Japanese pianist Hikaru Kanki received the £5,000 Pianists Prize; whereas the 31-year-old British-Hungarian Anna Cavaliero and the 29-year-old Swiss pianist Sebastian Issler have been awarded the £5,000 Jean Meikle Prize for a Duo for his or her excellent partnership.
Sitting on the panel have been performers and vocal consultants together with Roberta Alexander, Olaf Bär, Hugh Canning, Bernarda Fink, David Jackson, Graham Johnson, Dame Felicity Lott, Claron McFadden and Asadour Santourian.
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Director of Wigmore Corridor and chair of the Jury John Gilhooly mentioned of the Competitors: ‘The Wigmore Corridor/Bollinger Worldwide Tune Competitors is all about recognising and inspiring the following era of nice performers and there’s no doubt that this thrilling week highlighted many fantastic musical personalities. The standard of the performances has been excellent, and it’s sure that the way forward for the good artwork of tune is assured. Congratulations to Laurence Kilsby, and we drastically stay up for listening to him once more at Wigmore Corridor very quickly.’
Established in 1997, the biennial Worldwide Tune Competitors, which additionally contains public masterclasses and training from worldwide tune consultants, is open to rising performers, aged 34 and below, who’re on the verge of embarking on important worldwide careers.
All of the rounds, that includes 24 singers from all over the world, have been stay streamed to worldwide audiences and might nonetheless be seen at https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/watch-listen/live-stream.
Photograph: Chris Cristodoulou
