The International Anton Rubinstein Competition 2022 - CELLO

Felix Rosenboom is a performing cellist based in Salzburg, Austria where he studies at the Mozarteum University, under the tutelage of Clemens Hagen. Prior to this he studied at Junior Guildhall School of Music in London, under Selma Gokcen and Marina Logie. At a young age Felix played in the National Children’s Orchestra for 4 years, before being awarded the position of co-principal cellist in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. He has taken masterclasses with many acclaimed cellists including Danjulo Ishizaka, Aaron Minsky, Leonid Gorokov, Tamas Varga and Daniel Müller-Schott. Felix was granted the AYM Joan Scrutton Award, won 1st Prize in the Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year 2019 Competition and was twice awarded 1st Prize in the North London Strings Competition. He fosters a particular love for chamber music and frequently plays and performs with numerous chamber ensembles and orchestras. In April 2022 Felix will be touring across England with pianist Anastasia Kulikova in a series of duo recitals. His solo performances include his debut of the Monn Cello Concerto with the Claydon Chamber Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Lydian Chamber Orchestra.

Education
Royal Academy of Music, London, UK 2021 – present- Advanced Diploma in Performance
The Juilliard School, New York, NY 2018 – 2020 M.M. in Cello Performance
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2013 – 2017 B.M. in Cello Performance
Reykjavik College of Music, Reykjavik, Iceland 2010-2013 Soloist diploma
Teachers
Private Teachers: Hannah Roberts, Natasha Brofsky, Hans Jensen, Phoebe Carrai, Gunnar Kvaran, Sigurgeir Agnarsson

Cellist Yuqi Wang was born in Hangzhou, China, in 1997. She is a graduate of the Yong
Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, with a Master of Music
degree from the Juilliard School. Her teachers include Richard Aaron, Li-wei Qin, and Ying-
rong Lin.

As a soloist, Wang had performed in many places around the world. She has held solo
recitals in China, Singapore, and the United States. She won the first prize in the YSTCM
Concerto Competition and performed the Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 with the orchestra
in YST Concert Hall in Singapore. In 2018, she performed the Pergolesi Sinfonia in F major
Pergolesi under the baton of the conductor Masaaki Suzuki. In 2019, she performed as a soloist
at the Qingdao International Cello Festival. She was one of the nominators of the 2020
Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles.

As a chamber musician, Wang formed the Cantato String Quartet gave many concerts in
the Victoria Concert Hall, National Gallery of Singapore, etc. She performed together with the
world’s leading period-instrument string quartets, London Haydn Quartet, on baroque
repertoires. She was mentored by Joseph Lin, David Finckel, Takács Quartet, Juilliard Quartet,
Pacifica Quartet, Endellion Quartet, etc.

Wang won the fellowship in the Asian Youth Orchestra and had a performance tour with
the cellist Steven Isserlis in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Taipei, Chiayi, Tokyo, and
Osaka. In 2018, she won the orchestra string fellowship in the Aspen Music Festival and School.
In 2019, she was invited to participate in the Chofu International Music Festival.

Education
10/2019 – Present Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf
Bachelor of Music, Major : Violoncello
Teacher : Prof. Pieter Wispelwey

2014 – 2019 Seoul Arts High School, Yewon Art School
Teacher : Prof. Jeong-Joo Choi, Angela Park

Award
2021 1st Prize International Clara Schumann,
Moscow International Competition
2nd Prize Triomphe de l’Art

6/2014 – 7/2019 Grand Prix in String, the 2nd Korea International
Music Competition and Hanye Music Concour,
Korea
4th Prize, the 8th International Tchaikovsky
Competition for Young Musicians, Moscow

Wanxuan Wu,born in November 2002.Begin to study cello at age 8.In 2015,she was admitted in middle school affiliated to Shanghai conservatory of music and studied under Zheng Chen.In 2021 she admitted in Shanghai conservatory of music and study under Jiwu Li.
Wanxuan Wu was selected into MorningsideMusic Bridge with a full scholarship from 2018 to 2021.She was also selected into the program ‘Music Prodigy Search’ and gave performance with conductor Muhai Tang and Shanghai opera house orchestra.In 2018,shewon the first prize of the 15^th Phoneclassicclassical music competition.In 2019,she was invited to attend the first cello festival which held by Jian Wang and gave performance during the festival.In 2021,she was selected into the final of the 25^th concerto competition of Morningside Music Bridge.

Jisoo Kim was born in 2002 in Seoul,South Korea.
She started to play the cello in the age of 8 and studied at Yewon school and while she was studying at Seoul Arts High School in Seoul she moved to Germany and she is currently studying in Germany at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar by Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. She has recently received a special prize at the Unisa International Music Competition 2022 in Pretoria and is a first prize and overall string winner of the “Vienna New Year’s Concert” International Competition. She is also a prize winner at the France International music competition.She also won the First prize in the “The Music Association of Korea Competition”,Grand prize at the “Seoul Chamber Orchestra Music Competition”, Grand prize at the “Seoul cello Encemble Music
Competition” and many other music competitions in Korea.
She made her first solo Recital at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul in the age of 14.
She has performed with the Seoul Camber Orchestra,New England Conservatory Encemble, Seoul Cello ensemble in Korea and with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim in Germany.
She participated in “Rutescheim Cello Festival” by Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in 2018 and played at the final concert.

Sophia began studying piano at age 8 and cello at age 10. In the Summer of 2018, she took the opportunity to study and perform cello in Austria, both as a soloist and in collaboration with young musicians from around the world. She is currently the pianist and assistant principal cellist in the senior level of the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and performed in its 2019 Baltics Tour, performing in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia.

She has won first place from the Bay Area International Music Competition and the Great Composers Competition, and top awards from US International Open Music Competition, US Open Music Competition, US International Music Competition, ENKOR, Clara Schumann Competition, and PYO concerto competition. She has also received recognition of distinction from the Vienna International Music Competition and International Moscow Music Competition.

In 2021, Sophia was honored to receive an invitation and perform as a soloist in the
Beethoven-Haus concert hall in Bonn to celebrate the composer’s 250th anniversary. In
addition, she has also been invited to perform solo in the Salzburg Mozarteum University.

Sophia has performed in a number of community service events at veterans’ and senior centers and has participated in several string and piano ensembles through the Palo Alto School of Chamber Music and Young Chamber Musicians. To extend her music passion, Sophia hasstudied the art of Beethoven’s chamber works through a lecture course at Stanford and is thepresident and founder of the Burlingame High School music club.