Around the Music Festival

Japan’s “Aoi Trio” won the piano trio division of the Munich International Music Competition (Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD) on 15th. “Aoi trio” is piano Akimoto Kosuke, violin Ogawa Kyoko, cello Ito yu. It is the first time Japanese wins this division. The competition was organized by the German Public Broadcasting Federation (ARD), 67 times this time. It is known as the most prestigious contest among international competitions. It is characterized by the review department changing by year, this year there are 4 divisions of vocal music, viola, trumpet, piano trio.

Meanwhile, Russian mezzo-soprano, Natalya Boeva ​​won 1st prize in the vocal music division. The 2nd prize is a Swiss bus, Milan Siljanov. The 3rd prize was shared by Swedish soprano, Ylva Sofia Stenberg, Chinese tenor, Mingjie Lei. The 1st prize in the trumpet division was Selina Ott in Austria, the first winner as a female player. The 1st prize of the Viola category was Diyang Mei of China. Japan’s Konoe Takehiro won the 3rd prize. Konoe is 20 years old living in the Netherlands. His grandfather is a conductor Hidemaro who has worked hard to develop the Japanese orchestra.

Photo：Aoi Trio

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