26/05/2019 Stella Chen has won the 2019 Violin Competition! The International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize - Queen Mathilde Prize receives € 25,000 and numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad. She will also have the honour to play the 'Huggins' 1708 Stradivarius for four years, presented by the Nippon Music Foundation.
The prizewinnersFirst Prize : Stella Chen (USA, 26)
Second Prize : Timothy Chooi (Canada, 25)
Third Prize : Stephen Kim (USA, 23)
Fourth Prize : Shannon Lee (Canada – USA, 26)
Fifth Prize : Júlia Pusker (Hungary, 27)
Sixth Prize : Ioana Cristina Goicea (Romania – Germany, 26)
The
six unranked laureates, in alphabetical order :
Luke Hsu (USA, 28)
Sylvia Huang (Belgium, 25)
Seiji Okamoto (Japan, 24)
Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine, 22)
Ji Won Song (Korea, 26)
Yukiko Uno (Japan, 23)
Audience awardsSylvia Huang wins both the Musiq’3 Prize and the Canvas-Klara Prize, both worth € 2500.
You can
watch and listen to their performances on our website.
And for those who want to hear them perform live, the laureates will present themselves to the public during a series of concerts :
calendar.