A second chance
Enrique was awarded First Prize, « Jeunes Etoiles » category, at the Canadian International Music Competition CIMC, with the piece «11ème Etude, Villa Lobos».
Congratulations!
Enrique has been a member of the Joans Group Geneva for about ten years. With a scholarship from the Jonas Foundation at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, Enrique is in a pre-professional class (guitar, Prof. Alession Nebiolo).
Elisa Primiceri also won a prize in this competition!
Elisa Primiceri and her music teacher Ariel Rychter (Conservatoire de Musique de Genève) gave a small concert of Sammartini’s Sonata in December 2020.
In these times «only» on video – nevertheless to see/hear for all, anytime, worldwide. This music piece opened the new year (1 January 2021) in our Advent/New Year’s calendar.
Elisa also sent the video to the Canadian International Music Competition. She has now received the report that she has won a second prize in the «Jeunes Artistes» category! She will not only receive a diploma, but also a silver medal by mail…
Congratulations to Elisa for winning this prize! She is one of our long-time students in Geneva, she has been with JONAS for over ten years (choir, camps, recorder).
The list of the winners of the CIMC | Other artists of the Canadian competition at an online concert
Enrique Meija also won a prize in this competition!
We are very happy for Enrique! He is part or our JONAS project in Geneva/Switzerland, where he has developed a high level of classical guitar during several years.
At the Pleven Guitar Festival, which has just taken place (online), Enrique took part in the 16-17 year old category. He had to submit a 15-minute video. His programme:
Watch and listen… :
The Diploma of the 6th Pleven Guitar Festival
1th–15th december 2020 – virtual edition
plevenguitarfestival.com, Pleven/Bulgaria
Under the direction of:
Nikolay Mihaylov, Artistic Director
Milena Gramova-Mihaylova, President of the «Art close to me» Association
Good news from Jonas students and leaders!
Eteri, vocal and piano student, will soon begin her studies in German Literature (Tbilisi State University).
Eric, piano student at the Jonas School of Music in Tbilisi, has successfully passed his entrance examinations for medical studies.
We are also very pleased with Dachi Taktakishvili et Natia Beraia Taktakishvili, the leaders of our project. They both received their PhD degrees in music at the Ilia University of Tbilisi!
Our music lessons at the Collège Pierre-de-Geyter in Paris St-Denis (Principal Stéphane Mercy) are very popular. Classes for the new term will start on september 23rd – with our new music teacher!
Putting his focus on guitar and piano lessons, our new teacher Takfarinas Barkou (MSc Mathematics and Musicology) is very much looking forward to the coming school term!
It was a somewhat special end of term concert. Open air, in the beautiful Tibetan Peace Garden, with lots of space – but no audience invited!
Due to corona restrictions, the concert could only take place in a mini group – almost without a direct audience. For you, the most important audience was a camera: So you can now, at any time, listen to the concert, including some city background sound.
The spring semester is now over. With lockdown, online music lessons, improvisation: «What a term it was… !!!» — «Thank you ever so much for all the fabulous teaching this term, and well done for the dedicated practice and perseverance !»
