Louis Schwizgebel-Wang

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, born in Geneva on November 19, 1987, is a Swiss pianist. Son of a Chinese mother and a Swiss father, he began studying piano at a very young age with Franz Josefovski. At the age of 9, he is student at the "Conservatoire of Lausanne", where he got his soloist diploma.

From 2003 to 2005, he is rewarded by several piano prizes in Switzerland, as the Geneva International Music Competition [fr icon [http://www.concoursgeneve.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=145 Liste de concerts proposés aux lauréats du Concours de Genève en 2006] ] and in 2006, the first prize of the Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig in Germany. In 2007, he received the first prize of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. [ [http://www.yca.org/schwizgebel-wang.html Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, piano] on the "Young Concert Artists, Inc." Website]

Discography

*2006 : "Piano Concerto No. 2" of Mendelssohn, with the "Orchestre de Chambre de Genève" directed by Paul Goodwin ; label Pan-Classics.

Notes

References

*de icon [http://www.pascaldevoyon.com/devoyonprof/elevescvde/schwizgebellouisde.html "Louis Schwizgebel-Wang : Lebenslauf"]
*Cecelia Porter ; [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110702638.html?nav=hcmodule "Louis Schwizgebel-Wang"] ; "Washington Post" November 8, 2007.

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