CS Young Artist Award for Valentine Michaud
Saxophonist Valentine Michaud will receive the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award 2020, which comes with prize money of 75,000 Swiss francs and a top-class concert performance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Valentine Michaud from France initially studied in the tradition of the French school. At the age of 16, she moved to Switzerland and studied with Pierre-Stéphane Meugé at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, where she became interested in the contemporary repertoire and early music (Baroque, Renaissance).
In 2013, she completed a bachelor's degree in saxophone and also graduated with a bachelor's degree in musicology from the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris. After a first Master's degree in instrumental pedagogy, she continued her education from 2015 to 2018 with a second Master's degree - this time specializing as a soloist - in Lars Mlekusch's class at the Zurich University of the Arts. From 2017 to 2018, she also worked as Lars Mlekusch's assistant.
The Credit Suisse Young Artist Award promotes outstanding soloists whose potential promises a great international career. In addition to the prize money of 75,000 Swiss francs, the winners receive the opportunity to perform with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lucerne Summer Festival. The prize is awarded jointly by the Lucerne Festival, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien and the Credit Suisse Foundation.
