Stéphanie Huang advances to the final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. She is the only Belgian candidate in this year’s prestigious music competition for cello.
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The organizers of the Queen Elisabeth Competition announced the twelve finalists shortly after midnight on the night of Saturday to Sunday. Huang is 26 and comes from Hainaut. Her sister Sylvia Huang became a laureate and public winner in the Queen Elisabeth Competition for violin in 2019. They come from a musical family. Father is a violinist, mother is a cellist.
In the first round, Huan came across as confident and self-assured. She sees the fact that she plays in front of a home crowd as an advantage. “When you’re on stage, you feel the connection with the audience, the warmth, even before you start playing,” she said earlier. our newspaper† “It’s really nice to feel so supported.”
Other finalists
The twelve finalists also include four Koreans (Taeguk Mun, Hayoung Choi, Woochan Jeong and Sul Yoon) as well as one cellist each from China (Yibai Chen), from Serbia (Petar Pejcic), from Ukraine (Oleksiy Shadrin), from Estonia ( Marcel Johannes Kits), from Austria (Jeremias Fliedl), from Canada (Bryan Cheng) and from Switzerland (Samuel Niederhauser).
The finalists will now go, in the order of their draw, to the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel to privately study Jörg Widmann’s great duty work. In addition, they will each perform a concerto of their choice, together with the Brussels Philharmonic conducted by Stéphane Denève.
Second time cello
The final of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition for cello will take place in Bozar from 30 May to 4 June. This is only the second time that the cello has taken center stage in the Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 2017, the Frenchman Victor Julien-Laferrière won.
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