Read more news stories here<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nThe semi-final rounds of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition were held from\u00a011 to 16 May. 24 cellists each performed a recital programme, which included the competition\u2019s imposed work\u00a0Caffeine by Harold Noben; in addition to a concerto by Anton Kraft, Michael Haydn or Leopold Hofmann with the\u00a0Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie and Vahan Mardirossian.<\/p>\n
Twelve cellists have now been selected to progress to the final round, which will take place at the\u00a0Brussels Centre for Fine Arts, from Monday 25 to Saturday 30 May. Each evening, two finalists will perform with the Belgian National Orchestra, conducted by Antony Hermus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The finalists will each perform a concerto of their own choice and the unpublished imposed work, Four Odes to the Tidings of Flowers, especially written for this year\u2019s competition by Fang Man.<\/p>\n
Each candidate will have one week to learn the imposed work, in isolation at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.<\/p>\n
The twelve finalists are:<\/p>\n
Andrew Ilhoon Byun<\/p>\n
Clara Dietlin<\/p>\n
Tae-Yeon Kim<\/p>\n
Yo Kitamura<\/p>\n
Leland Ko<\/p>\n
\u00c1lvaro Lozano Cames<\/p>\n
Lionel Martin<\/p>\n
Krzysztof Michalski<\/p>\n
Dilshod Narzillaev<\/p>\n
Ettore Pagano<\/p>\n
Ivan Sendetsky<\/p>\n
Maria Zaitseva<\/p>\n
The jury for the final comprises\u00a0Gilles Ledure (chairman), Natalie Clein, Roel Dieltiens, Valentin Erben, Oph\u00e9lie Gaillard, Anne Gastinel, Marie Hallynck, Gregor Horsch, Anssi Karttunen, Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott, Sharon Robinson, Jian Wang and Sonia Wieder-Atherton.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read more news stories here\u00a0 The semi-final rounds of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition were held from\u00a011 to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-234802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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