Joshua Brown
Exceptional evening with the Second Prizewinner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Violin
◇ 5 October 2024
The Boghossian Foundation is delighted to welcome violonist Joshua Brown, winner of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition, for an exceptional evening at the Villa Empain. Accompanied by Elodie Vignon on the piano, the virtuoso will perform compositions by the greatest composers: J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, L. Janacek and J. Brahms.
One of the most demanding, and one of the most widely publicised international competitions, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, ever since its creation in 1937, has established itself as a springboard for young violinists, pianists, singers, and cellists on the threshold of an international career. Steadfastly committed to the project initiated by Eugène Ysaÿe and Queen Elisabeth, the Queen Elisabeth Competition seeks to discover complete artists; it owes its reputation to a prestigious jury, strict rules, and unparalleled media coverage, as well as to the friendly and enthusiastic hospitality offered by an entire country and its Royal Family. The Competition aims, above all, to serve as an intermediary between those young virtuosos and the world’s great musical venues.
Joshua Brown is currently studying under Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. He won First Prize and several special prizes at the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg ; he also distinguished himself at the Indianapolis Competition and more recently won the Gold Medal at the first China International Music Competition. Joshua Brown has shared the stage with such leading orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in concert halls around the world, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Severance Hall in Cleveland, the Symphony Center in Chicago, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg.
After studying at the Conservatoire de Lyon, Elodie Vignon went on to study under Daniel Blumenthal at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. In 2010 she crossed the path of Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, an outstanding artist who inherited from his masters Claudio Arrau and Georges Cziffra a profound knowledge of the repertoire and the instrument. She became artist in residence at the Fondation Bell’arte, founded by Delle-Vigne Fabbri. Since then, she has performed extensively in Europe, the Philippines and the United States, under the baton of such conductors as Ramon Tebar and Philippe Entremont. In recent seasons, she has performed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, on tour in Italy with the Orchestra del Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, in Luxembourg, and in France (Cesson Sévigné, Thionville, Avignon, Institut Hongrois de Paris). In February 2025 she will be a guest at the Flagey Piano Days for the launch of her recording of the complete works of Claude Debussy, the first part of which will be released by Cypres. Élodie Vignon was awarded the Octave Point Culture for her album D’ombres, released in 2020, featuring works by Dutilleux and Ledoux.
With the support of Pianos Maene
