The Bach Prize Winners 2016 Have Been Selected: GENUIN Produces CD with Paolo Bonomini
17.7.2016: More than 100 musicians competed at the 20th International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig from 6 to 16 July 2016 for the title of "Bach Prize Winner". Nine of them are now allowed to hold this honorable title:
organ
1. prize: Kazuki Tomita / 27 years old / Japan
2. prize: Pavel Svoboda / 28 years old / Czech Republic
3. prize: Alina Nikitina / 32 years old / Russia
voice
1. prize: Patrick Grahl / 28 years old / tenor / Germany
2. prize: Raphael Höhn / 31 years old / tenor / Switzerland
3. prize: Geneviève Tschumi / 27 years old / alto / Switzerland
violoncello / baroque violoncello
1. prize: Paolo Bonomini / 27 years old / Violoncello / Italy
2. prize: Ursina Braun / 24 years old / Violoncello / Switzerland
3. prize: Vladimir Waltham / 27 years old / barocque violoncello / France/Great Britain
Alongside the first prize in the category of violoncello, Paolo Bonomini also won the GENUIN Special Prize: GENUIN will produce a CD with the Italian cello player that will probably be issued in spring 2018.