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competition's public and student awards. Two different instruments
compete in the Geneva music competition every year in four-year cycles.

Bartók World Competition, which also focuses on piano, composition,
chamber music and violin, has announced the Japanese Integra Quartet

(€12,000) as the winner of this year's string quartet competition. The
Vienna-based Chaos String Quartet took second place and the Belgian

Sonoro Quartet took second place.

The annual awards of the British Royal Philharmonic Society have been
awarded. The conductor award was awarded to Ryan Bancroft, who
also works as an artistic partner of the Tapiola Sinfonietta;

violinist Nicola Benedettireceived the instrumentalist award , the
"impact of the year" award was awarded to the ENO Breathe project

helping coronavirus patients at the English National Opera, the singer of
the year was mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, and the inspiration

award of the year was awarded to Hilary Campbell and the Bristol
Choral Society.

Impersonation news: The Korean Symphony Orchestra has named David
Reiland, a Belgian, as its future chief conductor. His three-year term

begins in January 2022. Reiland is currently artistic director of the Metz
Symphony Orchestra and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, as well as

the main guest conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

Born: Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire has died on 31 October at the age

of 77. Freire, who showed exceptional talent as a child, played his first
concert at the age of four and finished seventh at the Rio de Janeiro

International Piano Competition at the age of 12. He became
internationally renowned when he won the Vienna da Motta piano

competition in Lisbon in 1964, which began his concert, which focused
mainly on Europe and South America. Freire recorded from the late 1960s

until 2017, and also performed in Finland, for the first time in 1972 and
for the last time in autumn 2019.