Alexandra Segal is the winning pianist of the George Enescu International Competition 2022

The winner of the piano section, and runners-up, as well as the most interesting original compositions, were awarded at the gala marking the end of a memorable edition of the George Enescu International Competition 2022 on Sunday, September 18.

Alexandra Segal, representing Israel, won the George Enescu International Competition 2022 - Piano Section, after a final in which she performed Sergei Prokofiev's Concerto No. 3 in C major for piano and orchestra op. 26, conducted by Kensho Watanabe.

Second and third prizes were awarded to pianists George Todică from Romania, and Chun Lam U from China.

The prize in the Symphonic Music category was won by Shin Kim, with Symphony No. 1 - Consolations. In the Chamber Music category, the prize went to Leonardo Marino for his composition Il deserto del senza tempo. And the prize for Originality, an award given for the first time this year, went to Bartosz Jawor for Prayers.

Additionally, the best-ranked Romanian pianist, George Todica, received a prize awarded by the Erbiceanu Cultural Foundation, worth EUR 2,500, the Constanța Erbiceanu Prize.

The first prize of the George Enescu 2022 International Competition is worth EUR 15,000, the second prize EUR 10,000, and the third prize EUR 5,000. The winner of the 2022 Enescu Competition will also have the opportunity to perform in the 2023 and 2024 editions of the George Enescu International Festival and Competition, as well as in concerts organized during the Romanian Philharmonic seasons.

Short biographies of the piano section winners:

Alexandra Segal represents Israel and was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1995. She is currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Prof. Milana Chernyavska.

She won 3rd prize at the Medici International Music Competition (2021), 3rd prize at the Chicago International Music Competition (2020), 1st prize at the Piano Forever Competition (2017, Israel), 1st prize at the Arianne Katcz Piano Competition (2017), 1st prize at the Pnina Salzman Competition for Young Pianists (2017), 3rd prize at the Riga International Piano Competition (2012), and 1st prize at the Crimean Spring International Piano Competition (2010).

She has performed as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Raanana Symphonette and Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Vag Papian, Avi Ostrowsky, Yoav Talmi and Guy Feder.