Bach Prize for HfMT pianists

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Julien Cohen, a master's student in Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, has won 2nd prize at the 11th International Bach Piano Competition in Würzburg.

Julien Cohen was born in the Paris region in 1993 and started playing the piano at the age of 5. He obtained his DEM at the CRR Paris unanimously in 2011 and won first prize at the national competition in Aix-en-Provence in 2012. He then began studying mathematics at Cambridge, graduating in 2016. During his studies, he developed a growing desire over the years to devote himself entirely to music and become a professional pianist following his academic studies. During his four years at Cambridge, he therefore continued to pursue music diligently, taking private lessons from Pascal Nemirovski in London and performing very regularly in Cambridge, London and Paris. He gives recitals, plays in chamber music and in numerous concerts as a soloist with orchestra.

Julien Cohen is a prizewinner and Bach laureate of the Gagny International Competition 2019, finalist of the Virtuoses du Coeur 2018 competition in Paris and semi-finalist of the Cantù International Concerto Competition 2018 in Italy.

In 2016, he was admitted to the master's program in piano at the Royal Academy and Royal College in London, but eventually decided to return to Paris to study with Rena Shereshevskaya for three years.
Since October 2019, he has been studying at the HfMT Hamburg in the class of Prof. Hubert Rutkowski.