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FEEDBACK from the FESTIVAL

(Namur 2023 edition)

Master Classes, Conferences, Double bass competition according to several levels, Double bass making competition and bow makers, concerts and exhibition

To animate the conferences, masterclasses and participate in the juries of the Competitions, the Festival was able to count on the presence of prestigious artists; Thierry BARBE (professor at the CNSM Paris, soloist Opera Paris), Thomas MARTIN (Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, the English Chamber Orchestra, the CBSO and the London Symphony Orchestra), Petru IUGA (Staatliche Musikhochschule und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim and HEM Lausanne), Dan STYFFE (co-principal of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, teaches double bass at the Norwegian Academy of Music and at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo ), Miloslav JELINEK (Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, University of Ostrava, Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw, and Brno Conservatory), Xu LUO (associate professor of orchestral instruments at the Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), Zhaoyang CHANG (soloist Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège), Eric MATHOT (Royal Conservatory of Liège, Conservatory of Namur, Gretry music academy in Liège) ,

Competition

            Twenty candidates from China, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belarus.

            The winners of the Competitions receive gifts and sets of strings from PIRASTRO and THOMASTIK; a very big thank you to these two famous German high quality firms!

Category A First Prize: Summer Sky SOBCZAK (UK, 9 years old)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpKwCtJ9FDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYs_w5NZRS0

Group C First Prize: Yichen HUANG (China, 16 years old)

Group C Second Prize: Elias KOBI (Switzerland, 18 years old)

Second Prize (ex-aequo) of the RECITAL group, wins a bow of Steffen KUHNLA: Lidong HE (China, 25 years old)

Second Prize (ex-aequo) of the RECITAL group, wins a bow of Steffen  KUHNLA: Mikhail AHARODNIKAU (Belarus, 23 years old)

Third Prize of the group RECITAL: Arsenii GAZIZOV (Russia, 24 years old)

Congratulations also to all the other Masterclass candidates and participants:

Congratulations also to all the other Masterclass candidates and participants: Miriam BARBIERATO, Jingyi CUI, Zhengxiao HUANG, ZeHui JIANG, Xuanchi LI, Yicun LIU, Kai LU, Yuhan MA, Salvador MARTINEZ, Yicen MENG, Jiahui QIAN, Chencheng WANG, Zixu WANG, Mengyao YANG, Yang YU, Yuzhe ZHANG, Jiayi ZHAO, Yubei ZHAO, Huang Zhengxiao

COMPETITIONS of MAKERS

The Festival unanimously awarded the FIRST PRIZE for the double bass of Stefan KRATTENMACHER (Germany), the SECOND PRIZE for that of Mathieu MILLET (Lille, France), the THIRD PRIZE for the instrument of Richard GONON (Lyon, France) , the FOURTH PRIZE to Pierre GUENEGO (Valencia, Spain)

The SECOND PRIZE (bow category) was awarded to Gilles DUHAUT (Tours, France), the THIRD PRIZE to Florian CAPPELLETTI (Belfort, France)

Exhibitors !

The Festival was able to benefit from the presence of six exhibitors from Italy, Germany, France and Belgium!

Robert ANZELLOTTI https://basscapos.com/ ,

Stefan KRATTENMACHER  www.krattenmacher.com ,

Sven-Henrik   GAWRON www.kontrabasspunkt.de,  

Gilles DUHAUT www.gilles.duhaut.free.fr, 

Grzegorz JANDULSKI  www.atelierfuerstreichinstrumente.de , Denis   de FAUCONVAL    https://denis-luthier.com/

Vera  WILLEMYNS https://vera-luthier.com/,

Richard GONON https://www.richardgononluthier.com/,

Cristiano  SCIPIONI https://www.scipionicristiano.com/

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