Cellist Bryan Cheng was named Laureate of the Prix Yves Paternot in 2022, an honour awarded to the most accomplished and promising musician of the Verbier Festival Academy. He was also named Sixth Laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition (Brussels) earlier that year and First Prize winner at the UNISA International Strings Competition in Pretoria. He won Second Prize and Audience Prize at the 2021 Geneva International Music Competition. The Canadian cellist gave his sold-out Carnegie Hall recital debut at age 14, his Elbphilharmonie debut in 2018 with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and will make his Berliner Philharmonie debut in 2022-23 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Solo highlights of recent and upcoming seasons include St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra at Musical Olympus Festival, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal at Festival de Lanaudière, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at Victoria Hall, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Cheng has released a trilogy of award-winning albums on German label audite and plays the 1696 ‘Bonjour’ Stradivari cello on loan from the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank.
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