A report Sunday (9/16) on the BBC News website states, “Italian Federico Colli has won the Leeds International Piano Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious music contests. The 24-year-old played Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, accompanied by the Halle Orchestra, to take the title. The competition’s founder, 91-year-old Dame Fanny Waterman, announced the £18,000 prize in Leeds Town Hall. Held every three years, previous winners include Andras Schiff, Radu Lupu, Artur Pizarro and Ashley Wass. … [Federico Colli] previously won the 2011 Salzburg International Mozart Competition, and toured Germany with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn. … The runner-up was Swiss pianist Louis Schwizgebel. Raised in Geneva, he is a student at the Juilliard School in New York. … Third prize went to Jiayan Sun (China), fourth to Andrejs Osokins (Latvia), fifth to Andrew Tyson (USA) and sixth to Jayson Gillham (Australia).”
Posted September 18, 2012
