BREAKING | Prizes Awarded at Birmingham's 2021 Aronowitz International Viola Competition

12 November 2021

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Juan-Miguel Hernandez and Hélène Clement, Edgar is a former recipient of the Wilfrid Parry Prize, Regency Award, Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, and the Olwen Doreen Leyshon Prize.

He will receive £5000, an album recording with Champs Hill Records, a fine viola bow made by Robert Shallock, courtesy of Bishop Instruments & Bows, plus a set of Pirastro Evah Pirazzi Gold Viola Strings and Rosin and a Pirastro Viola KorfkerRest.

The second and third prizes were awarded to 20-year-old Noga Shaham from Israel and 20-year-old Haneul Park from South Korea.

All rounds of this year's competition were streamed live HERE on The Violin Channel and are available now for playback.

https://theviolinchannel.com/2021-cecil-aronowitz-international-viola-competition-edgar-francis-violist-1st/