Herbut students honored in Lyon
Pavel Yeletskiy was awarded 1st prize and the audience prize at the 6ème Concours International de piano de Lyon. Igor Andreev is the winner of the 3rd prize. Both pianists are students of HKB (Bern University of the Arts) lecturer and jury member Tomasz Herbut.
The second prize was awarded to Min-Jun Kim from Korea. The first prize is endowed with 6000 euros, the second with 3500 euros and the third with 2000 euros. The competition, founded by pianist Svetlana Eganian, was held for the sixth time.
The president of the jury is Michel Dalberto. Other members are Akemi Alink-Yamamoto, Alain Lompech, Elena Rozanova, Philippe Raskin and Thomas Herbut, who is also the teacher of the two HKB students.
In 2013, pianist Pavel Yeletskiy completed his Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance in Bern - the HKB's highest course in the field of music - and won the 2013 Eduard Tschumi Prize, which is awarded annually for the best soloist examinations at the HKB.
