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At the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow
late on Wednesday the jury picked finalists in four categories
-- piano, cello, violin and voice. The winners received a gold
medal and $30,000 each.
Russian mezzo soprano Yulia Matochkina won the first prize in
the female singers' category. The 32-year-old made her debut at
St Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre in 2009 in "Le Nozze di
Figaro" and has since toured with its opera company.
Mongolian baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, 27, who won a prize as
best singer in his home country in 2012, took the gold medal in
the male opera singers' category.
In the cello category, Romania's Andrei Ionita, 20, scooped the
top prize. He has performed with orchestras in Germany, France
and Russia and is said to play a cello made in 1671 by Giovanni
Battista Rogeri.
Among the pianists, Russian Dmitry Masleyev, 27, was the winner.
The Moscow Conservatory graduate has won several competitions in
the past.
The jury did not award a gold medal in the violin category and
the second prize -- a silver medal and $20,000 -- went to
Taiwan's Yu-Chien Tseng, 20.
The competition is named after Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky and is held every four years. This year it was
dedicated to Tchaikovsky's 175th birthday anniversary.
(Reporting by Reuters Television; Editing by Gareth Jones)
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