27-year-old German baritone Samuel Hasselhorn has won the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He studied at the Hanover and Paris conservatories and is currently working with Patricia McCaffrey in New York. He was awarded the 2018 Emmerich Smola Prize, First Prize in the 2017 Das Lied International Song Competition in Heidelberg, Second Prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall Song Competition in London, and Third Prize in the Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart in 2016. He is also First Prize winner of the 2015 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, captured First Prize in the 2013 International Schubert Competition in Dortmund, and the “Prix de Lied“ in the 2013 Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition in Paris.
Second Prize: Eva Zaïcik (30, mezzo-soprano) France
Third Prize: Ao Li (30, basso) China
Fourth Prize: Rocío Pérez (27, soprano) Spain
Fifth Prize: Héloïse Mas (30, mezzo-soprano) France
Sixth Prize: Marianne Croux (27, soprano) Belgium – France