The First Prize of the 76th Concours de Genève piano competitors has been received by the 17-year-old pianist Kevin Chen, from Calgary in Canada.
Second Prize went to Sergey Belyavsky (28 years outdated, Russia): Third was awarded collectively to Kaoruko Igarashi (27, Japan) and Zijian Wei (23, China).
For the ultimate part of the piano competitors closing, candidates had been required to carry out a Romantic or trendy concerto from any composer taken from a listing comprising Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Bartóokay and Prokofiev. Kevin Chen received his rendition of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1.
The piano closing spherical, above. Kevin’s efficiency begins at 1:36:40
The finalists carried out at Geneva’s Victoria Corridor, with accompaniment from the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande carried out by Maržena Diakun.
Since its creation in 1939, the Geneva Competitors has been devoted to ‘discovering, selling and supporting the most effective younger artists of the second by favouring full artists and creators of emotion’.
Kevin Chen lives and research in Calgary, Canada, the place he’s taught by Marilyn Engle. Regardless of his younger age, he has already carried out with the Calgary, Edmonton and Minneapolis symphony orchestras amongst others. Kevin has additionally composed virtually 100 works, together with symphonies and a piano concerto. In 2013, he wrote the River Rhapsody in tribute to the victims of the Excessive River floods in his native Alberta, Canada.
