AWARDED ARTISTS AND COMPETITION PRIZE WINNERS
The committee of the Universal Marimba Competition Belgium awards each edition ‘"the Award of Honor" to persons for their tremendous contribution in the International marimba- and percussion field as a marimba or percussion artist, composer, pedagogue, manufacturer, conductor, promoter and organizer. The Award of honor is given to following persons:
- 2001 - BE: Maestro François Glorieux / Composer, conductor, piano virtuoso
- 2001 - JP: Professor Keiko Abe / Marimba virtuoso
- 2001 - BE: Professor Louis Cauberghs / Percussionist, pedagogue
- 2001 - BE: Professor Ludwig Albert / Marimba virtuoso
- 2004 - MX: Maestro Zefferino Nandayapa / Mexican marimba virtuoso
- 2004 - BE: Mol Percussion Orchestra / Performing ensemble
- 2004 - NL: Professor Jan Pustjens / Percussion virtuoso
- 2007 - SE: Professor Anders Loguin / Percussion virtuoso
- 2007 - US: Professor David Friedman / Key-board & jazz virtuoso
- 2007 - FR: Professor Frédéric Macarez / Percussion virtuoso
- 2011 - HR: Professor Igor Lesnik / Percussion virtuoso
- 2011 - US: Professor Mark Ford / Marimba virtuoso
- 2013 - DE: Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic / Percussion & marimba virtuoso
- 2013 - NL: Adams Music instruments / Manufacturer
- 2013 - RU: Aliona Bolkvadze / Organizer, promoter
- 2015 - BE: Pascale de Groote / Department head Royal Antwerp Conservatoire
- 2015 - US: Innovative Percussion / Manufacturer
- 2015 - BE: Anita Evenepoel / Scenographer
- 2015 - BE: Katrine Druyts / Singer
- 2017 - CN: Biao Li / percussion virtuoso, conductor
- 2017 - US: Michael Burritt / percussion-keyboard virtuoso
- 2020 - MX: Israel Moreno / keybaord artist - promoter
- 2020 - BE: Walter Mertens / percussionist - composer
PREVIOUS JURY MEMBERS
Keiko Abe, Ludwig Albert, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, Mark Ford, Ney Rosauro, Nancy Zeltsmanduo Axoum, Rebecca Kite, Foo Pui Yee, Angel Frette, David Friedman, Daniella Ganeva, Momoko Kamiya, Kuniko Kato, Igor Lesnik, Chin-Cheng Lin, Anders Loguin, Frédéric Macarez, Nanae Mimura, Biao Li, Michael Burritt, William Moersch, Hidemi Murase, Zefferino Nandayapa, Bogdan Bacanu, Leo Ouderits, Jan Pustjens, Emmanuel Séjourné, Klaus Tresselt, Pei-Ching Wu and extra jury-members: Alain Craens, Jan Van Landeghem, Stefaan Ottenbourgs, Liesbet Vereertbrugghen, Wilfried Westerlinck, Francois Glorieux.
ENDORSED LAUREATES OF PREVIOUS EDITIONS
The Universal Marimba Competition could establish an embarking career for most of the laureates and Prize winners which also obtained an endorsing artist contract with major companies and University positions such as:
- Hidemi Murase: Professor, Adams artist
- Miguel Gonzales Zaragosa: Professor, Marimba One artist
- Eriko Daimo: Professor, Marimba One artist
- Noriko Tsukagochi: Yamaha artist
- Chin-Cheng Lin: Professor, Adams & Resta mallets artist, composer
- Mi Youne Kim: Professorr Marimba One & Adams artist
- Johan Bridger & Patrick Raab: Professor, Malletech duo artists
- Uchiyama Emiko & Petrov Vladimir: Adams duo artists
- Elwira Slazak & Gabriel Collet: Yamaha duo artists
- Miko & Rina Kano: Yamaha duo artist
- Sharaevskiy Rostislav: Yamaha artist
- Elisabeth (Galvan) Van Wirt: Yamaha artist
- Taknara percussion group: Adams artists
- Tomasz Golinski: Composer, Innovative artist
- Irena Manolova: innovative artist
- Ni Fan: Yamaha & Sabian artist
- Keiko Kotuko: Professor, Vic Firth, & Zildjian artist
- Chen Yin Chun: Professor
- Roberto Cruz: Professor
- Claire Litzler: Adams artist
- Foo Pui Yee: Adams artist
- Simone Rubino: Professor, Adams artist
LAUREATES EDITION 2001
| 1st laureate Solo | Hidemi Murase (JP) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Keiko Kotuko (JP) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Mayumi Sekizawa (JP) |
| 1st laureates Duo | Juan Martinez & Miguel Gonzales Zaragosa (MX) |
LAUREATES EDITION 2004
| 1st laureate Solo | Eriko Daimo (JP) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Noriko Tsukagochi (JP) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Chin-Cheng Lin (TW) |
| 1st laureates Duo | Johan Bridger & Patrick Raab (SE) |
| 2nd laureates Duo | Elwira Slazak & Gabriel Collet (PL/FR) |
| Young Talent Prize | Min Jeong Song (KR) |
| Young Talent Prize | Chin-Cheng Lin (TW) |
| The Originality Prize | Taiko Saito (JP) |
| The Originality Prize | Zhengdao Lu (CN) |
LAURATES EDITION 2007
|
1st laureate Solo + Public Prize + SABAM prize |
Mi Youne Kim (KR) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Iwami Reina (JP) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Hiromi Shigeno (JP) |
|
1st laureates Duo + Public Prize, + SABAM prize + Keiko Abe prize |
Uchiyama Emiko & Petrov Vladimir (JP/BG) |
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2nd laureates Duo + Keiko Abe Prize |
Mieko Kano & Rina Kano (JP) |
| L. Albert Talent Prize | Rostislav Sharaevskiy (RU) |
| Special Talent prize Solo | Taiko Saito (JP) |
| Special Talent prize Solo | Sabrina Suk Wai (HK) |
| Special talent prize Duo | Chin-Cheng Lin & Yin-Chun Chen (TW) |
| Special talent prize Duo | Jacques Hostettler & Nicolas Suter (CH) |
| Originality Prize Solo | Chin-Cheng Lin (TW) |
| Originality Prize Duo | Hirotake Kitaka (JP) |
LAUREATES EDITION 2011
|
1st laureate Solo + Public Prize + L.Albert Prize |
Simone Rubino (IT) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Rostislav Sharaevskiy (RU) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Elisabeth Galvan (US) |
| 1st laureates Chamber music |
Lucid duo: Irena Manolova & Tomasz Golinski (BG/PL) |
|
2nd laureates Chamber music + Public Prize |
Taknara Ensemble (ES) |
| Ludwig Albert Prize | Insert Title: Ben Duinker & Greg Samek (US) |
| Igor Lesnik Prize | Foo Pui Yee (HK) |
LAUREATES EDITION 2013
|
1st laureate Solo + Public Prize |
Han-Yen Kao (TW) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Filip Mercep (HR) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Nina Fujisawa (JP) |
| 1st laureates Duo | Keiko Kotoku & Roberto Palomeque (JP/MX) |
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2nd laureates Duo + Public Prize |
Claire Litzler & Ryoko Kondo (FR/JP) |
| L. Albert Talent Prize Solo | Xizi Wang (CN) |
| L. Albert Talent Prize Solo | Tomi Emilov (BG) |
| L. Albert Talent Prize Duo | Milosz & Magadalena K. Pekala (PL) |
| L. Albert Talent Prize Duo | Florent Duverger & Lucie Delmas (FR) |
| Young Talent Prize | Sebastian Efler (AT) |
| Igor Lesnik Prize | Nina Fujisawa (JP) |
| Sabam Prize Solo | Sebastian Efler (AT) |
| Sabam Prize Duo | Ling Lu & Hao-Yun Hsieh (TW) |
LAUREATES EDITION 2015
|
1st laureate Solo + Public Prize |
Bak Hyeji (KR) |
| 2nd laureate Solo | Fan Ni (CN) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Kann Elten Anders (DK) |
| Ludwig Albert Talent Prize | Bernstein Colleen (US) |
| Ludwig Albert Talent Prize | Huang Po-Yuan (TW) |
| Keiko Abe Honorary Prize: | Kann Elten Anders (DK) |
| Originality Prize | Fan Ni (CN) |
|
Best Performance Prize Belgian work |
Zhang Jinshuang (CN) |
|
Best Performance Prize set Concerto |
Bak Hyeji (KR) |
| 1stPrize Composition | Freibergs Guntars (LV) |
PRIZE WINNERS PERCUSSION YOUTH COMPETITION 2015
| Category A (age 12-15 years) |
| 1st Prize | Vladimir Shabashov (Russia) |
| 1st Prize | Kang Young Eun (S-Korea) |
| 2nd Prize | Gurkey Beste (Turkey) |
| 2nd Prize | Swennen Rob (Belgium) |
| 3rd Prize | Lei U Wan (Macau) |
| 3rd Prize | Yang Yu wen (Macau) |
| Category B (age 16-19) |
| 1st Prize | Matisic Simun (Croatia) |
| 2nd Prize | Ren Jingxue (China) |
| 2nd Prize | Elmeri Uusikorpi (Finland) |
| 3rd Prize | Ku Su Bin (S-Korea) |
| 3rd Prize | Elias Nummenmaa (Finland) |
LAUREATES EDITION 2017
| 1st laureate Solo | Yao- Te Hsieh (TW) |
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2nd laureate Solo + Public Prize |
Marianne Bednarska (PL) |
| 3rd laureate Solo | Huang Po-Yuan (TW) |
| 4th Finalist Solo | Yi Sun (CN) |
|
1st laureates Chamber music + Public Prize |
Ni Fan (CN) & Lukas Bohm (DE) |
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2nd laureates Chamber music |
FLAMA Duo: Luis Camacho Montealegre (ES) Francesco Mazzoleni (IT) |
| Originality Prize Chamber music | Carmen Alfaro (CR) & William Gomez (CR) |
| Ludwig Albert Talent Prize Solo | Alvaro Alves (PT) |
| Ludwig Albert Talent Prize Solo | Rodriguez Morales (MX) |
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Sabam Best performance Prize of Belgian composition (Feel the Sunlight -L.Albert) |
Huang Po-Yuan |
|
Sabam Best performance Prize of Belgian composition (LA Concerto -Piet Swerts) |
Marianne Bednarska |
| 1st laureate Marimba Composition | Rodrigo Fernandes Marques (PT) |
| 3rd laureate Marimba Composition | Ji-Hoon Lee (KR) |
PRIZE WINNERS PERCUSSION YOUTH COMPETITION 2017
| Category A (age 12-15 years) |
| 1st Prize | Lee Duam |
| 1st Prize | Vasileva Maria |
| 2nd Prize | Isaacs Lewis |
| 2nd Prize | Pullen Alexander |
| 3rd Prize | Chakarova Sara |
| 3rd Prize | Van Laenen Lennert |
| Category B (age 16-19) |
| 1st Prize | Robrecht Lasoen |
| 1st Prize | Arthur Bechet: |
| 2nd Prize | Samuel Hsin-Mu Hsu |
| 2nd Prize | Poljanec Luka |
| 3rd Prize | Cibej Jan |
