Santiago Cañón-Valencia / Interview 2020

Описание: Santiago Cañón-Valencia, participant of the 25th Musical Olympus Festival

In this Interview Santiago reveals to us his various creative sides, manifested in his unique painting and photography skills. He talks to us why it is important for a musician to think about his album cover and what it expresses. And in his opinion, one of his favorite festivals is the Cartagena Music Festival, a real gem to discover for the international audience. Santiago has performed at the Musical Olympus Festival already in 2018 and we were so excited to have him back. Let’s hope, we can see each other again in 2021!

Interviewer:
Anna Berenika Haefliger,
Member of the board of Friends Musical Olympus, Switzerland

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BIO Santjago Cañón Valencia (Colombia)
Cello

Born in Colombia in 1995, Santiago Cañón Valencia has been praised as one of themost promising young cellists of his generation. He is currently pursuing his Professional Studies degree with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Kronberg Academy (Germany).

Santiago made his professional orchestral debut as a soloist at the age of 6 and has since gone on to perform in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras from all around the globe such as Mariinsky Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Moscow Soloists among others.

His debut CD of solo 20th Century works “Solo” has been internationally
acclaimed. Santiago has been sponsored by the Mayra & Edmundo Esquenazi Scholarship through the Salvi Foundation since 2011. He is a recipient of the MPower Artist Grants 2016 by the Sphinx Organization and was also awarded with the prestigious Monini Prize at the Spoleto Festival 2017.

First Prize Winner at the Carlos Prieto 2016, Beijing, Gisborne and Lennox
international cello competitions; he is also a major Prize Winner of the Sphinx 2017, Casals, Johansen, Cassadó, and Adam competitions.

In 2017, Santiago won Third Prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competitionin Brussels.
In 2018, he received The Janos Starker Foundation Award.
Second Prize and Audience Award Winner at the 2019 XVI International
Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.