Queen Elisabeth Competition - Piano 2021 Jonathan Fournel, Keigo Mukawa, Sergei Redkin

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83:
• 1 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo 18:12
• 2 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: II. Allegro appassionato 08:53
• 3 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: III. Andante 12:39
• 4 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: IV. Allegretto grazioso 09:58
• Bruno Mantovani (b. 1974): D'un jardin féérique:
• 5 Mantovani: D'un jardin féérique 14:15
• Pierre Jodlowski (b. 1971): Nocturne:
• 6 Jodlowski: Nocturne 08:41
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30:
• 7 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro non tanto 16:48
• 8 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo 11:19
• 9 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: III. Alla breve 15:31
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Concerto without orchestra in F Minor, Op. 14:
• 10 Schumann: Concerto without orchestra in F Minor, Op. 14: I. Allegro 07:54
• 11 Schumann: Concerto without orchestra in F Minor, Op. 14: II. Scherzo. Molto commodo 05:25
• 12 Schumann: Concerto without orchestra in F Minor, Op. 14: III. Quasi variazioni. Andantino de Clara Wieck 08:48
• 13 Schumann: Concerto without orchestra in F Minor, Op. 14: IV. Prestissimo possibile 07:12
• Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975): Prelude and Fugue in D-Flat Major, Op. 87/15:
• 14 Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in D-Flat Major, Op. 87/15 04:40
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 1791): Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488:
• 15 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488: I. Allegro 11:37
• 16 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488: II. Adagio 06:38
• 17 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488: III. Allegro assai 08:59
• Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, KV 595:
• 18 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, KV 595: I. Allegro 14:31
• 19 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, KV 595: II. Larghetto 07:49
• 20 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major, KV 595: III. Allegro 09:57
• Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764): Suite in A Minor, RCT 5:
• 21 Rameau: Suite in A Minor, RCT 5: VII. Gavotte et six doubles 08:11
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886): Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178:
• 22 Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178 29:48
• Johannes Brahms (1833 . 1897): Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24:
• 23 Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 26:57
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62/1:
• 24 Chopin: Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62/1 07:16
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): La plus que lente, L. 121:
• 25 Debussy: La plus que lente, L. 121 05:34
• Total Runtime 04:47:32

Info for Queen Elisabeth Competition - Piano 2021

French pianist Jonathan Fournelm, 27, has won this year’s Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition. Second Prize was awarded to Rusian pianist Sergei Redkin and third Prize to Keigo Mukawa (Japan).

This is a historical moment for the Music Chapel as Jonathan Fournel is the very first artist-in-residence to win the First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. It is also the first time that Chapel’s artists win the First and Second prizes.

Winning two prizes in this unprecedented 2021 edition of the Competition is the fruit of the remarkable work carried out by the Master in Residence since 2016, Louis Lortie, and his assistant Avo Kouyoumdjian, as well as the attentive and precious efforts of a whole team that has been working with these young artists for several years to accompany them to this level of excellence. We congratulate Jonathan and Sergei for their exceptional success at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. We trust that these two prizes will facilitate the growth of their careers in the coming years.

This is a wonderful moment for all those, including their sponsors, who have worked for their development. (Bernard de Launoit, CEO)

Born in Sarrebourg in 1993, Jonathan Fournel started playing the piano at age 7. He studied in Strasbourg, Saarbrücken, as well as at the French National Conservatory of Paris. Since 2016, Jonathan is an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Belgium. Jonathan Fournel has been awarded prizes at the Gian Battista Viotti International Piano Competition (1st Prize), and the Scottish International Piano Competition (1st Prize).

Jonathan Fournel, piano
Keigo Mukawa, piano
Sergei Redkin, piano

Jonathan Fournel
studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Saarbrücken under Robert Leonardy, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he took classes with Bruno Rigutto, Brigitte Engerer, Claire Désert, and Michel Dalberto. Since 2013, he has won the first prize at both the Concorso Gian Battista Viotti in Vercelli in Italy and the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow. He has performed, among others, with the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Radio and Television Orchestra in Zagreb, the Jiangsu Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and with conductors such as Frank Braley, Jonathon Heyward, and Gergely Madaras. Since 2016, Jonathan Fournel has been an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the guidance of Louis Lortie, and was selected as a ‘révélation classique’ by the Adami in 2017.

Keigo Mukawa
was born in Aichi in Japan and trained under Frank Braley, Haruko Ueda, Théodore Paraskivesco, Susumu Aoyagi, and Yukio Yokoyama. After studying at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he won the First Prize at the Japan Music Competition in 2012. He went on to study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Keigo Mukawa is also a laureate of the Épinal and Ile-de-France international competitions and won the First Prize at the Coop Music Awards in Cremona in Italy in 2016 and the Second Prize at the Long Thibaud Crespin Competition in 2019. In 2017, he was selected to take part in the Chanel Pygmalion Days in Tokyo, at which he played Maurice Ravel’s complete works for piano in a series of six recitals. He has performed with, among others, major orchestras in Tokyo and the Orchestre National de Lorraine and has performed in recital in France, Switzerland, Latvia, China, and Japan.

Sergei Redkin
was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia, in 1991. In 2004, he moved to St Petersburg and began his training at the Rimski-Korsakov Conservatory. He first attended the special school for gifted musicians, then took courses by Alexander Sandler starting in 2009. He also studied composition under Alexander Mnatsakanian, one of Shostakovich’s last students. He won the First Prize at the Maj Lind piano competition in Helsinki in 2012, the Prokofiev competition in St Petersburg in 2013, and the bronze medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2015. He then performed on tour with Valeri Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra in Paris, New York, and Mexico and took part in the Prokofiev marathon in 2016 at the MPHIL 360° festival in Munich. Since 2017, he has been an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, under the guidance of Louis Lortie.

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