The Bach Prize Winners 2016 Have Been Selected: GENUIN Produces CD with Paolo Bonomini

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.


Bach Prize Winners have been selected at the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig since 1950. GENUIN has already issued the debut CDs of four other Bach Prize Winners:
Francesco Corti, harpsichord, Bach Prize Winner 2006
Evgeny Sviridov, violin, Bach Prize Winner 2010
Johannes Lang, organ, Bach Prize Winner 2012
Jean-Christophe Dijoux, harpsichord, Bach Prize Winner 2014 The CD by Jean-Christophe Dijoux is internationally available since 3 June 2016

Here you can see insights of the award ceremony:

Paolo Bonomini and Michael Silberhorn


All winners of the Bach Prize 2016


The winners of the category cello


Paolo Bonomini

Photography: Gert Mothes

To the homepage of the Bach Prize (German)