AAF-catalogue-2017

2016 AAF Award winners
Alyosha Jurinic (1989, Croatia)
© Mario Kučera
Alyosha Jurinic won numerous international
competitions and all the major awards for young
musicians in Croatia.
He is best known for winning the 16 th Robert
Schumann Competition in Zwickau (2012),
where he deeply impressed the jury.
More recently, he was finalist of the Chopin
Competition in Warsaw (2015) and prize winner
of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels
(2016).
Hailed by the renowned pianist Malcolm Troup
as ‘a Chopin-player beyond compare’ following
a recital in London, he has continued to perform
solo and with orchestras in many countries. In
February 2015, he made his Carnegie Hall recital
debut.
Alyosha received the AAF award at the Sydney
International Piano Competition of Australia.
Ming Xie (1994, China)
Ming Xie has performed around
the world, at Alice Tully Hall,
Lincoln Center, Severance Hall in
Cleveland, Steinway Hall, Palau
de la Música in Barcelona,
Beijing Concert Hall and other
places.
In July 2016, he won the AAF
award and the audience prize at
the Sydney Int’l Piano
Competition of Australia. He
went on to win the 7 th
International Piano Competition
in Panama (October 2016).
Ming is currently studying at the
Juilliard School in New York with
Sergei Babayan.
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