Yanis Griso

Yanis Griso, Natalia Labourdette, Astrid Bjelland and Gustas Raudonius are young European musicians, prize winners of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY) and from March 11 to 14 they will play together several concerts in Luxemburg and Germany.

Gustas Raudonius is a young pianist from Lithuania, laureate of the Lithuanian national competition Balys Dvarionas Piano and String Competition, Yanis Griso is a 12 year old Luxembourgish violinist, prize winner of the Concours Luxembourgeois et Européen pour Jeunes Solistes, and Natalia Labourdette is an emergent Spanish singer and EMCY prize winner of the Concurso Permanente de Jóvenes Intérpretes de Juventudes Musicales de España. Astrid Bjelland is a young flutist from Norway, winner of the EMCY prize at the Norwegian Music Competition for Youth.

The tour will start in Luxemburg, where the musicians meet for the first time and practise their common repertoire. On 11 March they kick off their Young Talents on Tour with the first concert in Luxemburg City. The programme features famous works of W. A. Mozart, Franz Liszt and Edvard Grieg also pieces from their home countries including Enrique Granados, Balys Dvarionas und Anatolijus Šenderovas, which the musicians will present and explain to the audiences.

The tour is a cooperation of EMCY with the UGDA Music School, the Werner und Felicitas Egerland Stiftung, the embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as well as the music school Iserlohn and the foundation LebenMühlheim and it is organised in the framework of the Erasmus+ project.

Concert details:
Friday 11th March at 12:30 Église Protestante de Luxembourg-Ville, 5 r. de la Congrégation
Friday 11th March at 18:00 Salle de concerts ArcA, Bertrange, Luxembourg
Sunday 13th March at 11:00 Musikschule Iserlohn, Gartenstraße 39, Iserlohn, Germany

Sunday 13th March at 17:00 Evangelisch-Freikirchliche Gemeinde Köln-Mülheim, Salzstraße 2d-6, Köln, Germany
Monday 14th March at 20:00 Steinwerk Ledenhof, Am Ledenhof 3-5, Osnabrück, Germany

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