In Young Talent at the Old Wester, several laureates of the Princess Christina Competition play in Amsterdam's iconic Westerkerk. Together with Evan Bogerd, the organist of the Westerkerk, a young talent will play a varied program of solo pieces and pieces played together with organ.
Today the honor belongs to 16-year-old violinist Joshua Tavenier. In January 2022, he won the Dutch Violin Competition, Davina van Wely category. The jury called him a born musician with an exceptional sense of character of each piece of music, looking for colors beyond the violin. He also won the prize for best performance of the modern work Riffs by Joey Roukens and the Coosje Wijzenbeek Prize. In March 2022, Joshua won 1st prize in the regional final of the Princes Christina Competition. Joshua has been heard on Podium en de Spiegelzaal (radio 4) and Podium Witteman.