Riadh Larous (Tunisia) - Florian Feilmair (Austria)

The “Young Virtuosos at Ennejma Ezzahra” festival aims to offer both Tunisian and expatriate audience, an opportunity to discover accomplished performers, aged under twenty five, who have won national and international competitions.

Since its inception in 2006, the festival has featured scores of budding musicians from East and West and particularly Tunisian young talents who are today among the most sought after musicians on the local music scene.

Young Virtuosos 9th Edition

First part

Riadh Larous (Tunisia)

Riadh Larous was born in Nabeul in 1988 (in the Cap-bon region). From an early age, he showed a strong attachment to music. At the age of six, he joined the Sufi Singing troupe in which he discovered with wonder liturgical songs and their enchanting and moving pace, and learned vocal techniques. In 2003, he started attending theory and solfège classes at the conservatory. This enabled him to attend the Tunis Higher Institute of Music (Institut Supérieur de Musique de Tunis) after obtaining his baccalaureate in 2007. He is currently working on his Master’s in Musicology.

This young artist is gifted with a strong voice, doubled with an exceptional mastery when it comes to playing the oud (Arab lute), and a special ease in playing percussion instruments. Thanks to his talent, he is able to rub shoulders with prominent artists from the Tunisian musical scene, such as Mohamed Ali Kamoun and Zied Gharsa. He also performed and acted in Macbeth-Création directed by Lotfi Achour, at the World Shakespeare in the United Kingdom (Newcastle), and many other films and theatre plays.

Second Part

Florian Feilmair (Austria)

Born in 1989, Florian Feilmair had already started his career as a concert-pianist during his studies at the Linz Musical Higher School, where he appeared on stage several times as the soloist of the school’s orchestra. Since then, he gives regularly concerts on Austrian stages, such as the Wiener Konzerthhaus or the Brucknerhaus Linz. Adding to his solo activities, he is also a Chamber music musician, performing in a duo with his brother, the clarinettist Benjamin Feilmair.

Despite his young age, he received a number of important awards, such as the “Klassikpreis Österreich” (Austrian award for classical music) during the “gradus ad parnassum” contest, the First Prize at the "Neue Sterne" Wernigerode international piano contest (Germany, 2011), the Third Prize at the "Silvio Bengalli" international piano contest (Italy, 2013), the Second Prize at the "Cidade de Ferrol » international piano contest (Spain, 2013), the Second Prize at the New Orleans international piano contest (USA, 2014) and the Second Prize at the Verona international piano contest (Italy, 2014).