Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

The international jury selected 18 participants who advanced to the second stage of the 12^th  Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition. They include representatives of Poland, France, Spain, Iceland, Italy, the USA and South Korea.

The 12^th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition is taking place at the Warsaw Philharmonic. After the first stage auditions, the international jury coposed of: Roman Jabłoński (chairman of the jury - Poland, Spain), Mindaugas Bačkus - Lithuania, Andrzej Bauer - Poland, Magdalena Bojanowicz - Poland, Henri Demarquette - France, Roel Dieltiens - Belgium, Anssi Karttunen - Finland , Yuri Laniuk - Ukraine, Jens Peter Maintz - Germany, Tomasz Strahl - Poland, Marcin Zdunik - Poland presented the names of 18 participants of the second stage of the competition.

The following participants qualified to the second stage of the 12^th Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition:

1. Gustaw Bafeltowski - Poland

2. Joachim Birman - France

3. Jahannes Gray - USA

4. Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir - Iceland

5. María Igual Devesa – Spain

6. Caterina Isaia - Italy

7. Esteban Jiménez Suárez - Spain

8. Tae-Yeon Kim - South Korea

9. Maria Leszczyńska - Poland

10. Jan Lewandowski - Poland

11. Jean-Baptiste Maizières - France

12. Piotr Olesz – Poland

13. Aneta Stefańska - Poland

14. Szymon Szopa - Poland

15. Konstancja Śmietańska - Poland

16. Carlos Vidal Ballester - Spain

17. Antoni Wojciechowski – Poland

18. Antoni Wrona - Poland

The auditions of the second stage of the Competition will take place on May 6–8 in the Chamber Hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic.

The audition schedule is available on the competition website: https://www.lutoslawski-cello.art.pl/xii-konkurs-terminarz.html 

Photo: Marta Ankiersztejn