Jonathan Fournel
French pianist Jonathan Fournelm, 27, has won this year’s Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition. Second Prize was awarded to Rusian pianist Sergei Redkin and thir Prize to Keigo Mukawa (Japan).
Born in Sarrebourg in 1993, Jonathan Fournel started playing the piano at age 7. He studied in Strasbourg, Saarbrücken, as well as at the French National Conservatory of Paris. Since 2016, Jonathan is an artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Chapel in Belgium. Jonathan Fournel has been awarded prizes at the Gian Battista Viotti International Piano Competition (1st Prize), and the Scottish International Piano Competition (1st Prize).
All the performances of Piano 2021 can be replayed on the website www.queenelisabethcompetition.be.
