Bobby Mitchell wins audience prize at YPF
Pianist and docARTES researcher Bobby Mitchell has been awarded the audience prize at the finale of the 5th Young Pianists Festival in Amsterdam, last November. The great majority of the audience voted for him at the finale, of which the other two candidates were Sofia Vasjeroek and Rosalia Gómes Lasheras.
Pianist and docARTES researcher Bobby Mitchell has been awarded the audience prize at the finale of the 5th Young Pianists Festival in Amsterdam, last November. The great majority of the audience voted for him at the finale, of which the other two candidates were Sofia Vasjeroek and Rosalia Gómes Lasheras, the latter winning the jury prize. Mitchell was awarded the 2
nd prize by the jury.
Mitchell’s performances of Rzewski’s
36 Variations and Tchaikovsky’s
First Piano Concerto were praised by the music critics present as being very spontaneous and charismatic.
Bobby Mitchell’s finale performance can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa2GufMWyvk