Geniet wins Belgrade cello competition
Joël Geniet, a student of Antonio Meneses at the Bern University of the Arts, is joint first prize winner of the International Jeunesses Musicales Competition Belgrade together with the Serbian Vuk Simon Ovaskainen.
Born in 2002, Joël Geniet studied with distinction at the Conservatoire Régional de Montpellier until 2017. In 2019, he was admitted to the bachelor's program in the class of Antonio Meneses at the Bern University of the Arts.
Jeunesses Musicales Belgrade was founded in 1954 and has been a member of Jeunesses Musicales International - JMI, based in Brussels, since 1962. Since 1974 they have been a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions - WFIMC, based in Geneva. They organize an annual competition for different instruments.
