Alba Shkreli wins the main prize
Nine awards were presented in three age groups at the Zurich Conservatory Music School on June 4.
According to the organizers, the Steinway Piano Competition was held in Switzerland for the first time on the initiative of Musik Hug Zürich, the world's oldest Steinway & Sons retail partner, to mark the 150-year partnership between the two companies.
A total of 57 children and young people from all over Switzerland applied. In preliminary competitions, 18 participants in three age groups between 8 and 17 qualified for the final round in Zurich.
17 young piano virtuosos competed on Saturday in front of the jury, which consisted of: Seung-Yeu Huh (pianist, Vice-Rector of the Zurich Conservatory of Music) Lorris Sevhonkian (pianist, Dean of the Piano Department at the Conservatoire Quest Vaud), Pascal Godart (pianist, professor at the Conservatoire Lausanne, Académie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, among others) and Daniel Rimensberger (pianist and music teacher, Product Manager Switzerland at Musik Hug, upright and grand pianos division).
15-year-old Alba Shkreli from Kloten won the main prize at the 1st Swiss Steinway Piano Competition. She will represent Switzerland at the international Steinway competition concert in Hamburg at the Laeiszhalle on September 11, 2016.
The prizewinners are
Category A (maximum age 10 years)
1st prize: Manoush Toth from Milken (Canton of Bern)
2nd prize: Piano duo Salome Pilgram and Ann-Kristin Langer from Winterthur.
3rd prize: Alexander Sahatci from Meilen.
Category B (maximum age 13 years)
1st prize: Mathieu Huang (12 years old) from Lausanne
2nd prize ex aequo: Zen Matsuzaki (born 2003) from Petit-Lancy (canton of Geneva) and Nicolas Salloum (born 2004) from Vésenaz (canton of Geneva)
Category C (maximum age 16 years)
1st prize ex aequo: Alba Shkreli (15 years old) and Eric Lu (born 2000) from Bern
2nd prize: Leonardo Parodi-Delfino.
Caption
Steinway_Piano Playing Competition Switzerland_2016: (from left) S-Y Huh(Jury President)_M Huang(1st place Cat B)_E Hug(President of the Board of Directors Musik Hug)_E Lu(1st place Cat C)_J Helmke(Steinway & Sons)_M Toth(1st place Cat A)_ A Shkreli (1st place Cat C)_ P Godart(Jury member)
