The winners of the 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition
Sat 21.7.18
The 2018 Johann Sebastian Bach Competition ended with a festive prize winners' concert at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater »Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy« in Leipzig on July 21st. 105 highly talented instrumentalists from 34 nations had been competing since July 11th in the subjects Piano, Harpsichord and Violine/Baroque Violin. Among the 18 finalists were six from the US, three from Germany and two each from Israel and Russia. In each of the three subjects, three bach Prizes have been awarded:
Piano
- 1st prize: Rachel Naomi Kudo (USA) - Image
- 2nd prize: Arash Rokni (Iran) - Image
- 3rd prize: Jonathan Ferrucci (Australia/Italy) - Image
Cembalo
- 1st prize: Avinoam Shalev (Israel) - Image
- 2nd prize: Andrew Rosenblum (USA) - Image
- 3rd prize: Anastasia Antonova (Russia) - Image
Violine/Barockvioline
- 1st prize: Maria Włoszczowska, Violin (Poland) - Image
- 2nd prize: Maia Cabeza, Violin (USA/Canada) - Image
- 3rd prize: Hed Yaron Meyerson, Baroque Violine (Germany/Israel) - Image
Credit of all images: Bach Competition / private
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