19-year-old Swiss pianist LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL-WANG won First Prize in the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions after winning the 2006 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Musik Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.  At the Auditions, he was also awarded the Peter P. Marino Debut Prize, which sponsors his New York debut; the Paul A. Fish Prize; the Brownville Concert Series Prize (Nebraska); the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Prize (North Carolina); the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Prize (Illinois); the Princeton University Concerts Prize; the Usedom Music Festival Prize (Germany); and the Vancouver Recital Society Prize.

In 2005 Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang was the top prizewinner in the Geneva International Competition.  He was also awarded the Audience Prize and the “Coup de Coeur Breguet” Prize, which sponsored the recording of his first disc.

The Young Concert Artists Series presents Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang’s New York debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in November 2007.  His other engagements during the 2007-2008 season include an appearance as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (North Carolina) in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, as well as recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA.

Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang gave his first performances at the age of nine.  At the age of 12 he represented Switzerland in the 9th Steinway Festival in Hamburg and at 15 won First Prize, the Prize for the Best Interpretation of a Swiss work, and the Paderewski Prize in the Swiss Youth Music Competition.  In 2004 he toured China with the Basel Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva.

Born in 1987 in Geneva, Mr. Schwizgebel-Wang began his piano studies at the age of six with Franz Josefovski.  Three years later he entered the Lausanne Conservatory, as a student of Brigitte Meyer, and earned a "Soloist's Diploma" at the age of 15.  He currently works with Pascal Devoyon at the Universität der Künst in Berlin.  His mother, who is Chinese, and his father, who is Swiss, are both visual artists.

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