Tschumi Prizes 2017 go to Zhao and Andreev
Five female soloists and three male soloists have obtained a Master of Arts in Specialized Music Performance Classical in Bern. Two of them were awarded the Eduard Tschumi Prize 2017 for the best soloist examination.
The clarinettist Shuyue Zhao and the pianist Igor Andreev each won a prize of 8,000 francs. Shuyue Zhao studied at the Bern University of the Arts with Ernesto Molinari. She spent seven years in New York at the Juilliard School with Charles Neidich. Igor Andreev began his training at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He continued his studies at the Bern University of the Arts in the class of Tomasz Herbut.
Simone Meyer (violin class Bartek Niziol), Grigory Maximenko (violin class Patrick Juedt), Marek Romanowski (double bass class Ruslan Lutsyk), Mischa Kozlowski and Harun Bugra Yüksel (piano class Tomasz Herbut) and Ruben Santorsa (guitar class Elena Càsoli) also successfully completed their Master's degree in Specialized Music Performance Classical Music.
