Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes 2013
Clarinettist Pablo Barragán and recorder player Laura Schmid win the prize awarded jointly by the music academies and the Lucerne Festival.
The Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes 2013, awarded for the seventh time, goes to the Spanish clarinettist Pablo Barragán, a student at the Basel Academy of Music, and the German recorder player Laura Schmid, a student at the Bern University of the Arts.
The two young artists decided the final in their favor in Lucerne. It is a first for the Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes to be awarded to two musicians. As part of their prize, they will have the opportunity to perform on August 22, 2013 as part of the Debut series at the Lucerne Festival this summer.
In addition to the winners, the Portuguese violinist Afonso Fesch (MAB Musikhochschulen FHNW), the Russian pianist Igor Andreev (HKB) and the Latvian cellist Maxim Beitan (CSI-SUM) were finalists.
The Prix Credit Suisse Jeunes Solistes, which has been awarded since 2001, is a joint initiative of the Lucerne Festival, the Konferenz Musikhochschulen Schweiz (KMHS) and the Credit Suisse Foundation.
