PIANO 2025 : First Prize
Nikola Meeuwsen
is currently studying under Enrico Pace and Marlies van Gent at the Accademia Internazionale di Imola and under Frank Braley and Avedis Kouyoumdjian at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. In 2022 he was awarded the Grachtenfestival Award, having won the Concertgebouw Young Talent Award (2019), Royal Concertgebouw Competition (2014) and Steinway Competition (2012). He has already built up an extensive list of solo and chamber music performances, having worked with such symphony orchestras as the Residentie Orkest, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia. He is a regular guest at Dutch and international festivals, and has played with musicians such as Janine Jansen, Corina Belcea and Augustin Dumay. Future engagements include concerts with the Residentie Orkest, Belgian National Orchestra and Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, and chamber music with Alexander Warenberg, Benjamin Kruithof and Noa Wildschut.
The Netherlands
Year of birth: 2002
Teachers
2022 - : Frank Braley
2022 - : Avedis Kouyoumdjian
2013 - : Enrico Pace
2009 - : Marlies van Gent
Degrees
2022 - : Artist Diploma, Queen Elisabeth Chapel
2013 - : Artist Diploma, Accademia di Imola
Concerts
2024 : Concertgebouw recital hall, Solo recital
2023 : Rudolfinum, Prague, Teplice orchestra
2023 : Konzerthaus Dortmund, Lithuanian state symphony
2022 : Concertgebouw, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra