Pierre Fournier Award

Auditions

Pierre Fournier Award auditions

The next auditions for the Pierre Fournier Award will be held at the Wigmore Hall in London on 7 and 8 July 2022. We welcome worldwide applications from cellists aged 30 and under on July 1 2022. The deadline for applications is 5pm (BST) on Sunday 24 April.

2022 Application Guidelines
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The applicant should be no older than 30 on 1 July 2022.
The deadline for applications will be Sunday 24 April at 5pm (BST)

All applicants must submit five, live and unedited video recordings of the repertoire detailed below:

Prelude and One other movement from a Bach Suite.
First Movement from a Beethoven Sonata.
First movement from a Romantic Sonata.
A work or movement of a composition written since 1960.
A movement from a standard cello concerto.

Cellists are asked to bring with them a collaborative pianist.