Oleksiy Shadrin (cello) is the Fourth prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2022

5/06/2022

⚡️ Our cellist Oleksiy Shadrin is the Fourth prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition! The Ukrainian cellist was among the laureates for the first time in the history of this competition (since 1937).

We are so proud of Oleksiy and would like to congratulate him on this victory!

🏆 Laureates:

First prize – Hayoung Choi (Korea)
Second prize – Yibai Chen (China)
Third prize – Marcel Johannes Kits (Estonia)
Fourth prize – Oleksiy Shadrin (Ukraine)
Fifth prize – Petar Pejčić (Serbia)
Sixth prize – Bryan Cheng (Canada)

Jeremias Fliedl (Austria)
Stephanie Huang (Belgium)
Woochan Jeong (Korea)
Taeguk Mun (Korea)
Samuel Niederhauser (Switzerland)
Sul Yoon (Korea)

Ukrainian winners of the competition (since 1991):

1999 – Vitaly Samoshko (piano), First Prize.
2000 – Olga Pasichnyk (soprano), Third Prize.
2001 – Oleg Kaskiv (violin), Unranked.
2015 – Oleksii Semenenko (violin), Second Prize.
2018 – Yury Haradzetski (baritone), Fifth Prize; Danylo Matviienko (baritone), Unranked.
2019 – Eva Rabchevska (violin), Unranked.
2022 – Oleksiy Shadrin (cello), Fourth Prize.

📸 Photo: Derek Prager for Queen Elisabeth Competition.

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