Daria Korotkova honored
The Valiant Forum has been an integral part of the Murten Classics festival for many years. This year, for the first time, it was held as a soloist competition for young pianists. The winner of this premiere is the Russian Daria Korotkova.
Daria Korotkova, a student at the Bern University of the Arts, qualified for the final concert in the courtyard of Murten Castle in an internal preliminary round and two public competition rounds and impressed the jury. At the subsequent award ceremony, she was awarded first prize, a soloist concert at the Murten Classics 2016 festival and a prize of CHF 2,000. Second prize went to Nataliia Shaposhnyk from Ukraine and third prize to Shintaro Kawahara from Japan.
According to the organizers, 29 pianists took part in the Valiant Forum Piano 2015. Swiss citizens or foreigners enrolled at a Swiss university were eligible to take part. Promoting young musicians is an important goal of the Murten Classics festival. In collaboration with Valiant Bank, youth orchestras and youth choirs have performed at the Valiant Forum in the past. This year, a competition for young pianists took place for the first time.
