
FEEDBACK from the FESTIVAL
(Namur 2023 edition)
Master Classes, Conferences, Double bass competition according to several levels, Double bass making competition and bow makers, concerts and exhibition
To animate the conferences, masterclasses and participate in the juries of the Competitions, the Festival was able to count on the presence of prestigious artists; Thierry BARBE , Thomas MARTIN, Petru IUGA, Dan STYFFE, Miloslav JELINEK , Xu LUO , Zhaoyang CHANG , Eric MATHOT



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Competition
Twenty candidates from China, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belarus.
The winners of the Competitions receive gifts and sets of strings from PIRASTRO and THOMASTIK; a very big thank you to these two famous German high quality firms!
Category A First Prize: Summer Sky SOBCZAK (UK, 9 years old)
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Group C First Prize: Yichen HUANG (China, 16 years old)
Group C Second Prize: Elias KOBI (Switzerland, 18 years old)
Second Prize (ex-aequo) of the RECITAL group, wins a bow of Steffen KUHNLA: Lidong HE (China, 25 years old)
Second Prize (ex-aequo) of the RECITAL group, wins a bow of Steffen KUHNLA: Mikhail AHARODNIKAU (Belarus, 23 years old)
Third Prize of the group RECITAL: Arsenii GAZIZOV (Russia, 24 years old)
Congratulations also to all the other Masterclass candidates and participants:
Congratulations also to all the other Masterclass candidates and participants: Miriam BARBIERATO, Jingyi CUI, Zhengxiao HUANG, ZeHui JIANG, Xuanchi LI, Yicun LIU, Kai LU, Yuhan MA, Salvador MARTINEZ, Yicen MENG, Jiahui QIAN, Chencheng WANG, Zixu WANG, Mengyao YANG, Yang YU, Yuzhe ZHANG, Jiayi ZHAO, Yubei ZHAO, Huang Zhengxiao
COMPETITIONS of MAKERS
The Festival unanimously awarded the FIRST PRIZE for the double bass of Stefan KRATTENMACHER (Germany), the SECOND PRIZE for that of Mathieu MILLET (Lille, France), the THIRD PRIZE for the instrument of Richard GONON (Lyon, France) , the FOURTH PRIZE to Pierre GUENEGO (Valencia, Spain)
The SECOND PRIZE (bow category) was awarded to Gilles DUHAUT (Tours, France), the THIRD PRIZE to Florian CAPPELLETTI (Belfort, France)

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Exhibitors !
The Festival was able to benefit from the presence of six exhibitors from Italy, Germany, France and Belgium!