Chiara Enderle is the winner of the Feuermann Prize
In 2013, she won the Lutoslawski Competition in Warsaw and the Pierre Fournier Award in London: Now the young Zurich cellist Chiara Enderle is the third prize winner of the 2014 Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann.
22-year-old Chiara Enderle grew up in a family of musicians in Zurich and has been studying with Jens Peter Maintz at the UdK Berlin since 2012. She has already performed as a chamber musician with her parents in Switzerland, the USA and Japan. She has also attended numerous masterclasses, including the London Masterclass.
The winner of the first prize, the audience prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of Ernest Toch's cello concerto is 20-year-old Frenchman Aurélien Pascal. He won the Rostropovich Junior Competition and the prize for the most promising cellist at the Navarra Cello Competition in Toulouse in 2011. Born in Paris in 1994, he received his training there.
The second prize went to 20-year-old Romanian Andrei Ionita. He received his training at the Bucharest Iosif Sava Music School and from 2012 at the Berlin University of the Arts. At this year's ARD Music Competition, he was awarded second prize in the cello category and the special prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work.
The international Feuermann Competition is organized every four years by Kronberg Academy and the Domenico Gabrielli Foundation of the Berlin University of the Arts. Daniel Barenboim is the patron.
