The 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition is the competition's 50th edition, comprising its 17th Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Competition and its 19th Composition Competition.

The violin competition took place between 30 April and 26 May 2012 in Brussels' Centre for Fine Arts. Andrey Baranov won it to become the first Russian violinist to do so since the collapse of the Soviet Union, while Tatsuki Narita and Su-shin Hyun were awarded the silver and bronze medals.

Violin competition

Jury Arie van Lysebeth (chairman) Pierre Amoyal Augustin Dumay Patrice Fontanarosa Daniel Hope Hu Nai-yuan Lewis Kaplan Kim Min Philippe Koch Shirly Laub Mihaela Martin Natalia Prischepenko Tatiana Samouil Akiko Suwanai Vera Tsu Weiling

Results Contestant R1 SF F Andrey Baranov Tatsuki Narita Su-shin Hyun Esther Yoo 4th Yu-Chien Tseng 5th Artem Shishkov 6th Ermir Abeshi Lrt. Marc Bouchkov Lrt. Nikki Chooi Lrt. Dami Kim Lrt. Josef Špaček Lrt. Nancy Zhou Lrt. Ga-hyun Cho Jin-joo Cho Kristi Gjezi Petteri Iivonen Bomsori Kim Erzhan Kulibaev Marisol Lee Richard Lin Maria Milstein Lev Solodovnikov Valentina Svyatlovskaya Stefan Tarara Lea Birringer Radu Bitica Birthe Blom Elina Buksha Louise Chisson Stefani Collins Claire Dassesse Cristian Fatu Elena Graf Soo-jin Han Xavier Inchausti Yoojin Jang Aiko Kamishikiryo Haik Kazazyan Fabiola Kim Jae-young Kim Jee-won Kim Soh-yon Kim Yu Kurokawa Harriet Langley Hyun-woong Lee Myung-eun Lee Maria-Elisabeth Lott Jolente de Maeyer Sergey Malov Matouš Michal Simon Michal Boson Mo Daichi Nakamura Ami Oike Liya Petrova Igor Pikayzen Mari Poll Aylen Pritchin Stanislav Pronin Yury Revich Michelle Ross Eugenia Ryabinina Arsenis Selalmazidis Oleksii Semenenko Emma Steele Mai Suzuki Julien Szulman Stephen Tavani Gabriel Tchalik Suliman Tekalli Diana Tishchenko Christopher Tun Andersen Yuuki Wong Jung-yoon Yang Sulki Yu Laura Zariņa Yuqing Zhang

Composition competition The first prize in the composition competition was awarded to French composer Michel Petrossian for his concerto for piano and orchestra 'In the Wake of Ea'.

References

External links Official website