Queen Elizabeth Music Competition 2022
On 22 February 2022, the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2022 announced the finalists for the 2022 Cello Competition. Based on the video registration form, the jury selected 68 contestants from 152 entries, from 22 countries or regions, including 20 female contestants and 48 male contestants. Chinese mainland player Chen Yibai was successfully shortlisted. It is reported that the main competition will be held in Brussels, Belgium from May 9 to June 4.
The Queen Elizabeth Competition (Dutch: Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd, French: Concours Music International Reine Élisabeth) is an international competition for professional musicians held in Brussels. The competition is named after Queen Elizabeth of Belgium (1876–1965).
This is a contest for classical violinists (from 1937 to the present), pianists (from 1938 to the present), singers (from 1988 to the present) and cellists (from 2017 to the present). It has also hosted the International Composers Competition from 1953 to 2012. The current patron is Queen Mathilde of Belgium.
Since its inception, it is considered one of the most challenging and prestigious competitions for instrumentalists. The Queen Elizabeth Competition in 1957 was a founding member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
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Shortlist
Albania 1
Claudio Zoto
Armenia 1
Hayk Sukiasyan
Australia 1
Sam Lucas
Austria 1
Jeremiah Fliedl
Belgium 1
Stéphanie Huang
Bulgaria 1*
Leland Ko*
Brazil 1
Luiz Fernando Venturelli
Canada 2 + 1*
Grace Sohn
Bryan Cheng
Edward Pogossian*
China 1
Chen Yibai
Chinese Taipei 1
Lin Eun Joon
Estonia 1
Marcel Johannes Kits
Finland 1
Beata Antikainen
France 5 + 2*
Christoph Crusader*
Stanislas Kim*
Bumjun Kim
Jean-Baptiste Maizières
Antonin Musset
Florian Pons
Maxime Quennesson
Germany 8 + 1*
Elia Cohen-Weissert
Anouchka Hack
Constantin Heise
Timothy Hopkins
Konstanze Pietschmann
Philipp Schupelius
Simon Tetzlaff
Hungary 2
Balazs Dolfin
Ildikó Szabó
Italy 2
Luca Giovannini
Erica Piccotti
Japan 2
Hideaki Fujiwara
Keisuke Morita
Korea 9
Jakyoung Olivia Huh
Woochan Jeong
Min Ji Kim
Dongyeol Lee
YeongKwang Lee
Taeguk Mun
Ah-Yeon Nam
Ye Un Park
South Yoon
Netherlands 3 + 1*
Hensels in your hand
Anton Spronk*
Ella van Poucke
Alexander Warenberg
Portugal 1
Andre Gunko
Russia 4
Ivan Sendetskiy
Ivan Skanavi
Vasily Stepanov
Maria Zaytseva
Serbia 1
Petar Pejčić
Switzerland 2 + 2*
Alessandra Doninelli
Samuel Niederhauser
Turkey 1
Hope Saglam
Ukraine 1
Oleksiy Shadrin
USA 10 + 2*
Riana Anthony
James Good
Rainer Crosett
Jonah Ellsworth
Oliver Herbert
Annie Jacobs-Perkins
Haddon Kay
James Kim
Zachary Mowitz
Aaron Wolff
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Chinese mainland finalist – Chen Yibai
Fifth place in the international cello of Tchaikovsky in 2019
Third Prize for The International Cello in Lutoslaski, 2018
Second Prize for international cello in Enescu, 2018
Chinese player who has won awards in the past 5 years
2018 — Li Ao
Studied vocal music at Shandong Normal University.
At the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, he starred in "Figaro's Nose" and "Don Pasquali". He has also performed at the Seoul Arts Center, the Spoleto Festival in the United States, the Lincoln Center Music Festival and the Macau International Music Festival.
Li Ao is a laureate of the Precito Domingo World Opera Competition, the Metropolitan Opera National Committee, and the Shizuoka Prefectural Fujisan International Opera Competition.
2017 — Sihao He
Trained by Hans Jensen and Julie Albers at the Robert McDuffie String Center at Mercer University in Macon, USA. He currently completes his master's degree at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, where he still works under Hans Jensen.
He won many competitions, fourth international Tchaikovsky and first prize in Japan in 2013.
He has performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Macon Symphony Orchestra, and the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra. In terms of chamber music, He Sihao is a member of The Simple Quartet, a band that won first place at the 2009 Shanghai Chamber Music Competition.