BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST Awards 2006
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Joshua Hopkins baritone (Canada)
Winner of the 2006 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the Verbier Festival Academy’s 2008 Prix d’Honneur, Joshua Hopkins has been hailed as “…an outstanding young baritone with a virile, vigorous yet velvety sound and an immediately evident dramatic authority.” ... |
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Andrew Kennedy tenor (UK)
Andrew Kennedy studied at King's College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music in London. He was also a member of the Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Andrew Kennedy has won numerous prizes and awards including the 2005 BBC Singer of the World Rosenblatt Recital Prize... |
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Antoine Tamestit viola (France)
Antoine Tamestit studied at the Paris Conservatory, at Yale University and with Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin. He won the first prize at the Maurice Vieux Competition (Paris, 2000), the William Primrose Competition (Chicago, 2001), the Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions and the 53rd ARD Munich International Music Competition In April 2004, he was selected to participate in BBC Radio 3’s New Generation Artists Scheme. He received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award 2006 and the Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk and the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2008.... |
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Jörgen van Rijen trombone (Netherlands)
Principal trombonist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Jörgen van Rijen is also much in demand as a soloist with a special commitment to promoting his instrument, developing new repertoire for the trombone and bringing the existing repertoire to a broader audience.... |
BORLETTI-BUITONI TRUST Fellowships 2006
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Ronan Collett baritone (UK)
Ronan Collett read music at Pembroke College, Cambridge where as an undergraduate he sang as a baritone choral scholar with St. John's College Choir. He subsequently studied with Noelle Barker and Iain Ledingham as a postgraduate on the Royal Academy of Music's opera programme, ... |
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David Trio (Italy)
The David Trio is one of most interesting of Italy's rising generation of ensemble players. The Trio made its international debut in April 2004 winning First Prize at the J. F. Haydn International Chamber Music Competition in Vienna.... |
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Ieva Jokubaviciute piano (Lithuania)
Known for her deep musical and emotional commitment to a wide range of repertoire, Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute’s ability to communicate the essential substance of a work has led critics to describe her playing as possessing ‘razor-sharp intelligence and wit’ (The Washington Post.... |