Knight wins Aeolus Tuba Prize

Yamaha Performance Artist and member Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ross Knight recently won the tuba prize at the prestigious Aeolus Competition for Wind Instrument's in Dusseldorf in Germany. Following three tough rounds, where Ross beat no less than 18 other world class tuba players, he won a place in the grand final.
 
Regarded as one of the foremost events of its kind in the orchestral brass world, the winners of all the major orchestral brass categories competed in front of an international panel of judges led by Chair, Ewa Strusinka and including Patrick Harrild, Jonas Byland, Jens Bjoorn-Larsen, Frits Damrow, Pasi Pirinen, Mike Svoboda and Raimund Wippermann.
 
The winner was Australian Jonathon Ramsay, principal trombone of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, with second place awarded to Ross, following his terrific performance of ‘Concertino for Tuba’ by Bozza. Polish trumpeter Lennard Czakaj was placed third and Philippe Schwarz, principal trombonist at the Stadttheater Giesen won the Prize for the Best Contemporary Interpretation.

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