She has just won the Witold Lutoslawski Cello Competition and now she has also won the Pierre Fournier Award at London's Wigmore Hall. The Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle is on the road to success.
Chiara Enderle, who completed a Bachelor's degree in cello with Thomas Grossenbacher at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) and is now a student in Berlin with Jens Peter Maintz, beat the finalists Benedict Klöckner (Germany), Joris van den Berg (Netherlands) and Jonathan Dorman (Great Britain) in London.
The Pierre Fournier Award was established in 1988 by cellist Ralph Kirshbaum. Previous winners include Gemma Rosefield, Richard Harwood and Gregor Horsch as well as Mikhail Nemtsov in 2011. A total of 30 participants have been admitted to the competition.
Chiara Enderle was born in 1992 as the daughter of ZHdK music lecturers Matthias and Wendy Enderle. She has performed as a chamber musician with the Carmina Quartet in Switzerland, the USA and Japan. She has already won prizes in various competitions.
