Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Competit-ion in Brussels.
Giltburg, 28, of Tel Aviv, was named the winner on June 2 for his “impeccable and unusually moving rendition of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3,” the Belgian-Jewish magazine Joods Actueel reported.
The Moscow-born musician received a cash prize of $32,450 and $3,245 from the VRT broadcaster. “This could change my life. I will try to use this to the maximum,” he was quoted as telling VRT.— jta