Asuto Kitamura wins the Rahn Music Prize 2020
The auditions for the Rahn Music Prize took place at the ZKO House in Zurich from January 15 to 17, 2020. The jury awarded four of the eight finalists a prize each.
Eight of the 29 piano students from Switzerland and abroad, who had to be enrolled at a Swiss music academy and born after September 1, 1992, qualified for the final. In the first and second rounds of the competition, they had to perform pieces from a repertoire defined by the jury (Benjamin Engeli, Adrian Oetiker, Walter Prossnitz and Oliver Schnyder).
The first prize (12,000 Swiss francs) went to Asuto Kitamura from Japan, born in 1996, and the second prize (8,000 Swiss francs) to Georgiana Pletea from Romania, born in 1993. The two third prize winners, Jérémie Conus from Switzerland, born in 1994, and Yilan Zhao from China, born in 1995, each received 4,000 Swiss francs.
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- Photo: Rahn Music Prize / Priska Ketterer
- Georgiana Pletea
Prizewinners' concert at the Tonhalle Maag
The first and second prize winners also receive a performance as a soloist at the Rahn Prizewinners' Concert with the Basel Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Andrew Joon Choi. The live video and audio recording of the concert will also be made available to you as a streaming link. The Rahn Prizewinners' Concert will take place on March 30, 2020 at 7.30 pm in the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich. Asuto Kitamura will perform Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54, Georgiana Pletea Mozart's Concerto in D minor KV 466.
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- Photo: Rahn Music Prize / Priska Ketterer
- Jérémie Conus and Yilan Zhao
