Aliaksandr Muzykantau from Belarus and Guillaume Sigier from France are the winners of the 2013 International Piano Competition of the World Piano Teachers Association in the category "Piano Recital". Azariah Tan from Singapore was the winner in the category "Piano Concerto". Martin Bartlett won in the Category "Chamber Music". The winners will perform during the World Piano Conference WPC from June 27th - July 3rd in Novi Sad.
Guillaume Sigier
Guillaume Sigier was born in 1988. He started playing the piano at age 7 in Valenciennes, then he joins Lille’s conservatory, where he studies with Marc Lys and Christophe Simonet. In 2005, he gets into the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique (CNSM) of Paris in Henri Barda and Isabelle Dubuis’ promotion. In the meantime, he improves his training with the study of harmony, accompaniment and chamber music, with Cyrille Lehn, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Yumi Otsu, Claire Désert, Ami Flammer and Yovan Markovitch. All along his career, he gets some advice from such personalities as Susan Manoff, Anne Quéffelec, Daria Hovora, Florent Boffard, Denis Pascal, Hortense Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Claude Pennetier, and also takes part into several master classes with Roy Howatt, Gilbert Amy, Michel Béroff, Emmanuel Strosser, Christian Ivaldi and the members of Trio Wanderer. Guillaume Sigier regularly performs recitals in France and abroad in many festivals (Ouvèze Festival, Jeunes Talents, Valloires Festival, Aix-les-bains Festival, Cordes et Pics de la vallée de Maurienne Festival, Ravéliades...). He also plays at the National Archives, the Bouffes du Nord Theater, in the Singer-Polignac Foundation, in the National Residence of the Invalids in Paris, at the London’s Royal College and soon in the Kyoto International Music Students Festival. As a soloist, he plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 in Lille, then Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Paris conservatory’s wind section.
Aliaksandr Muzykantau is a piano teacher at the Belarusian Academy of Music.
