| Laureates 2007 |

Andreas Brantelid

Andreas BrantelidAndreas Brantelid has won first prizes in the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest 2006 and the International Paulo Cello Competition in 2007. A student of Torleif Thedéen at the Edsberg Music Institute in Stockholm, he has participated in masterclasses with Pieter Wispelwey, David Geringas, Ralph Kirshbaum and others. He has appeared with orchestras all over Scandinavia and in 2006 gave a solo performance at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm. Since 2002 he has collaborated with the Swedish pianist Bengt Forsberg as well as playing chamber music with members of the Royal Danish Orchestra and pianists Hans Pålsson, Katrine Gislinge and Roland Pöntinen. He has toured Denmark with chamber music recitals and been invited to music festivals in Norway, Finland and Sweden. He has been awarded several prizes and legacies, including the Queen Ingrid Honorary Legacy in 2007. Brantelid plays a 1690 Giovanni Grancino cello sponsored by the Augustinus Foundation.

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Béatrice Reibel

Béatrice Reibel Béatrice Reibel ranks among the best of the French school of cellists. A former student of Philippe Muller, Frans Helmerson and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, she has received second prizes in the Lutosławski International Competition, the Belgrade International Competition and the International Paulo Cello Competition in 2007. She is a laureate of the Natexis Banque Populaire and Meyer Foundations and has been tutored by Anner Bylsma, Aldo Parisot, János Starker, Tim Eddy and David Geringas. She has appeared at several important festivals, such as Prades (France) and Ravinia (USA), with conductor Pierre Boulez (Fontainebleau Festival), and as a soloist with many European orchestras. Reibel has released two discs; one of music by J. S. Bach and contemporary composers, the other a collection of small pieces on Jewish musical heritage.

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Nicolas Altstaedt

Nicolas AltstaedtNicolas Altstaedt won international acclaim on being awarded the first prize in the Adam International Cello Competition in New Zealand in 2006. A tour with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and a Naxos CD then followed. While a student of Boris Pergamenshikov he won the first prizes in the 2005 German Music Competition and the International Domnick Cello Competition. He made his debut at the Suntory Hall in 2005, the Seoul Arts Centre in 2006 and Carnegie Hall in 2007. He has also performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under Sir Neville Marriner, with the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras and with such musicians as Gidon Kremer and the Ebène Quartet. He regularly plays at chamber music festivals that include Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Rheingau, Davos and Jerusalem. His debut CD was released in 2007. Nicolas Altstaedt plays a cello by Nicolas Lupot (Paris 1821) loaned to him by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

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Samuli Peltonen

Samuli PeltonenSamuli Peltonen began his cello studies in 1989 as a pupil of Ferenc Gyimes and Jussi Peltonen at the South Ostrobothnian Music Institute, Finland. He spent 1998–2002 studying in Turku with Timo Hanhinen before proceeding to the Sibelius Academy and Arto Noras. He has attended many masterclasses with such maestros as Heinrich Schiff, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Torleif Thedéen, Frans Helmerson, Martti Rousi and Marko Ylönen. Peltonen has been the soloist with Finnish orchestras and appeared in solo and chamber music recitals both in Finland and abroad. In 2006 he won the second prize in the Jyväskylä Duo Competition with pianist Anna-Mari Murdvee and the first prize in the Turku Cello Competition. He came fourth in the IV International Paulon Cello Competition in 2007. Further Information: cello(at)paulo.fi

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Janina Ruh

Janina RuhJanina Ruh is a student of Professor Gotthard Popp at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. She has received several distinctions in competitions, such as first prizes in the annual German national “Jugend musiziert” competition in 2003–2007 and the International Dotzauer Competition in Dresden in 2005, second prizes in the Heran Violoncello Competition Usti nad Orlici in 2005 and the International Music Competition “Pacem in Terris” in Bayreuth. In 2007 she was awarded the fourth prize in the International Paulo Cello Competition. Janina Ruh has attended several masterclasses in Italy with David Geringas, Gustav Rivinius and Troels Svane. She has already given many solo recitals and appeared with orchestras in Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia and Finland. She plays a Stefano Scarampella cello made in Mantua in around 1900 on loan to her from the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation.

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Silver Ainomäe

Silver AinomäeSilver Ainomäe got his Master of Music degree in 2005 after studying at the Sibelius Academy in Finland with Arto Noras. He then continued his studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and at the Razumovsky Academy with Oleg Kogan. In 1999 he was chosen to join the Gustav Mahler Orchestra of Young Performers. With it he has performed in Europe and America with Claudio Abbado, Seiji Osawa, Yo-Yo Ma and others. He has also played in the Helsinki Philharmonic, Tapiola Sinfonietta and London Philharmonia Orchestra with such conductors as Leif Segerstam, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Heinrich Schiff, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Muti and Charles Dutoit. He has performed as a soloist in Finland, Estonia, Poland and Switzerland, as a recitalist and chamber musician on numerous occasions around Europe. Ainomäe has won prizes in several international competitions, including the Isang Yun Music Competition in 2003, the Witold Lutosławski Cello Competition in 2005 and the Paulo Cello Competition in 2007.

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