Albisetti and de Azevedo win the Geneva Composition Prize
The Swiss Léo Albisetti and the Brazilian Caio de Azevedo have won first prize ex aequo in the composition category of this year's Concours de Genève.
The prizes are endowed with 15,000 francs each. South Korean Sang-min Ryu, who was also awarded the Nicati De Luze Special Prize, came third.
Caio de Azevedo holds a master's degree in composition from the Musikhochschule München, where he studied with Moritz Eggert. In 2023 he was a resident at the Cité des Arts in Paris. As a Brazilian composer living in Germany, the works have been performed by ensembles such as the MIVOS Quartet, Ensemble Recherche and the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie. He has composed numerous works, including the music theater piece Finita (2018) and the ballet in three acts for orchestra Macbeth (2019).
Léo Albisetti was born in Switzerland in 1997 and began his musical education with the piano. At the age of 19, he joined the composition class of Michael Jarrell, Luis Naón, Eric Daubresse and Gilbert Nouno at the Geneva University of Music. There he received a bachelor's degree and later a master's degree in mixed composition. He mainly composes for chamber music ensembles, but also for orchestra, harmony music, electronics and theater pieces.
