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York Early Music Festival International Young Artists' Competition
The 2009 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition was won by Ensemble Meridiana – a baroque ensemble comprising five young musicians from Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Norway. Tore Eketorp viola da gamba; Christian Kjos harpsichord; Dominque Tinguely recorder/bassoon; Cecilie Valtrova violin and Karel Valter baroque flute, met during their studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basle, Switzerland. The winner of the York Early Music Festival Friends Prize was the Dutch medieval ensemble Grand Desir comprising Anita Orme Della-Marta recorder/harp and Anne-Marieke Evers mezzo-soprano, Tobie Miller recorder/harp/hurdy-gurdy.Please see the press release below for further details. The next competition will take place as part of the 2011 York Early Music Festival. Details of how to take part will be announced in the autumn of 2009.