Pierre Amoyal – President of the Jury

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Pierre Amoyal is one of the most brilliant violinists of his generation. He began his music studies very early and was awarded a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique de Paris at the age of 12. At the age of 17 he departed for Los Angeles to study with Jascha Heifetz, with whom he studied for […]

Jian Wang

While a student at the Shanghai Conservatoire Jian Wang was featured in the celebrated documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Mr Stern’s encouragement and support paved the way for him to go to the United States and in 1985 he entered the Yale School of Music under a special programme where […]

Andrew Tortise was a choral scholar at Wells Cathedral and graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2002. He studied singing first with Ashley Stafford and now with Iris dell’Acqua. Concert plans this season and beyond include Arnalta in Monteverdi L’incoronazione di Poppea with Academy of Ancient Music; Monteverdi Orfeo on a USA tour with the […]

Salvatore Accardo

Salvatore Accardo made his debut recital at the age of 13 playing Paganini’s Capricci.Two years later he won the Geneva Competition and shortly after the Paganini Competition in Genoa. His repertoire ranges from pre-Bach to post-Berg; composers like Sciarrino, Donatoni, Piston, Piazzolla, Colasanti and Xenakis wrote for him. In addition to playing with the world’s […]

Dan Atanasiu

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Described by Kristian Stads Bladet “ A genius of the piano … the enthusiasm was sensational” , Dan Atanasiu was born in Timisoara, Romania, and began studying piano at the age of five. By the age of ten, he made his debut as a soloist in his native country with Mozart Concerto no. 8 in […]

Viktor Tretyakov

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Viktor Tretyakov, one of the world’s greatest violinists, can be called without exaggeration a symbol of the Russian violin school. In 1966, at the age of 19 he won the first prize in the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition. Since then, Tretyakov has performed with almost every major orchestra in the world, including Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, St. […]

Viktor Tretyakov

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Viktor Tretyakov, one of the world’s greatest violinists, can be called without exaggeration a symbol of the Russian violin school. In 1966, at the age of 19 he won the first prize in the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition. Since then, Tretyakov has performed with almost every major orchestra in the world, including Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, St. […]

Philippe Entremont – President of the Jury

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The exceptional career of Philippe Entremont began at the age of eighteen when he came to international attention with his great success at New York’s Carnegie Hall playing Jolivet’s piano concerto and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then, he has pursued a top international career as a pianist, and for the last 30 years, […]

Pascal Rogé

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Pascal Rogé exemplifies the finest in French pianism; his playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Ravel in particular is characterised by its elegance, beauty and delicate phrasing – his name is synonymous with the best playing of French repertoire in the world today. Born in Paris, Pascal Rogé became an exclusive Decca recording artist […]

Pavel Vernikov

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Pavel Vernikov, a student of David Oistrach and S. Snitkowsky, gained a reputation as virtuoso violinist more than twenty years ago. Among other prizes he won the International ARD Violin Competition in Munich and the Grand Prix at the International Violin Competition “Vittorio Gui” in Florence. He has appeared at such prestigious venues as the […]

Peter Jablonski

Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala […]

Myung-Wha Chung

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A widely admired soloist, chamber musician and teacher, cellist Myung-Wha Chung has performed around the world in her five decades of international career. Born to a Korean family of extraordinary musicians, Ms. Chung in recent years led Korea’s PyeongChang (formerly Great Mountains) Music Festival & School as Artistic Director. Over five decades, Ms. Chung has […]

Vassily Sinaisky

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Vassily Sinaisky’s international career was launched in 1973 when he won the Gold Medal at the prestigious Karajan Competition in Berlin. His early work with Kirill Kondrashin at the Moscow Philharmonic and with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatoire provided him with an incomparable grounding. Soon after his success at the Karajan Competition, Sinaisky was […]

Leonid Gorokhov

“I was bowled over when I first heard Leonid Gorokhov in a concert a few months ago. With a sound reminiscent of the legendary Emanuel Feuermann, Gorokhov is one of those rare artists who combines a natural communicative skill with awesome technical command.” Jeremy Nicholas, Classic FM Magazine Leonid Gorokhov was born in St Petersburg, then Leningrad […]

Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi

When Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi won the International Casals Competition in Budapest in 1963, the press called him a musician “whose discovery is comparable to that of David Oistrakh in the Brussels Competition in the 1930s”. Born in Tokyo, Mr. Tsutsumi’s early training with Hideo Saito led him to his debut at the young age of 12 […]

FINAL DAYS to Apply for the ENESCU COMPETITION 2018

Register now to participate in the 2018 George Enescu International Competition, to give your best in front of the jury, and win! The George Enescu International Competition is looking forward to meeting the most gifted young artists in Violin, Cello, Piano and Composition, and to reward their talented hard work. Only a few weeks are […]