Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/06
By: Tang Pei-chun and William Yen
Brussels, Feb. 6 (CNA) Taiwanese Lin Chia-wei (林家瑋) emerged Sunday as the winner
Image taken from Dutch Guitar Foundation’s Facebook page
of the first edition of the European Guitar Concerto Competition in the Netherlands, after three rounds of contest.
Lin, a 29-year-old classical guitarist from Kaohsiung, was the only Asian in the competition that was held in Groningen Jan. 29 to Feb. 4.
According to competition’s website, the contest was open to guitarists of all ages and nationalities, and participants were required to play one concerto in the preliminary, semifinal and final rounds of the competition.
A student at the Lemmens music conservatory in Belgium, Lin won the first prize, which carried a purse of 3,000 euros (NT$108,780) [FULL STORY]