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FEEDBACK from the FESTIVAL

ALDEN BIESEN 2024 edition

Master Classes, Conferences, Double Bass Competitions

To host 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), Petru IUGA (Staatliche Musikhochschule und Darstellende Kunst of Mannheim and HEM Lausanne), Xu LUO (associate professor of orchestral instruments at the Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music), Tianyang LIU (solo career in China but also the United States and regularly gives courses at the Central Conservatory of Beijing), Xia YANG (double bass professor at the Xi'an Conservatory (China). Eric MATHOT (Royal Conservatory of Liège),

Competition

Thirteen candidates from China, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, and pre-selected by videos.

The winners of the competitions receive sets of strings from PIRASTRO and THOMASTIK ; a big thank you to these two famous high-quality German companies!

First Prize ex-aequo (receiving a Steffen KUHNLA bow) : Vlad RATIU (Belgium)   & Riccardo BAIOCCO (Italy)

Joint Second Prize : (receiving a Schöneberg bow from Lee XIAYANG ): Daniil MARGULIS (United Kingdom) & Jingyi CUI (China)

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