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The cellist Christoph Croisé has won two prizes at international music competitions, the conductor Georgios Balatsinos one.
The Aargau cellist's successes at international music competitions follow each other in quick succession: after winning an award at the Brahms Competition in September 2015, he repeated his success twice in May 2016: he won first prize at the International Manhattan Music Competition and a third prize at the International Concerto Competition Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall.
Christoph Croisé also gave a recital at the NDR concert series Podium der Jungen in Hamburg on March 21. The concert will be broadcast by NDR on July 1.
The second prize of the Debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall International Conducting Competition went to Georgios Balatsinos, who is currently conducting the orchestra in Switzerland. Youth Orchestra Arabesque and Sinfonietta Mosaïque conducted. As one of the two best-placed conductors in his field, Balatsinos conducted the Berliner Symphoniker in the Berlin Philharmonie on June 1, performing works by Dvorak and Schumann.
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