75e Concours de Genève - Bryan Cheng, 2nd Prize Cello 2021 

I agree w/you 100% and was very disappointed he did not get the 1st prize. Great, sensitive performance. Bravo Bryan. :):):)

@@racheloliver17 To be honest though, the first place winner’s performance was probably one of the greatest cello performances I’ve ever seen

Given the final contestants, I agree he should have received first prize. The winner of the first prize is, to say the least, underwhelming, and is an uncompelling demonstration of the qualities of a first rate cellist. It is irritating seeing Lutoslawski concerto being taken seriously as a piece appropriate enough to evaluate a first rate celist when it is nothing more than some technical excerises strung together on clothesline. The so called concerto has so much a lack of color and phrasing, it is aesthetically repugnant.

@@buren5829That is just your opinion, all music is art in some way or another