On July 9, The Keuris Saxophone Quartet won first prize at the 1st Strasbourg International Saxophone Quartet Competition, 2015. The members of the quartet are Evgeni Novikov, soprano saxophone; Stefan de Wijs, alt saxophone; Michal Grycko, tenor saxophone, and Juan Manuel Dominguez, bariton saxophone, all CvA alumni who studied with Arno Bornkamp.
On August 30, Pedro Corte-Real won first prize at the Premio Jovens 2015 competition in Lisbon. He studies in the bachelor’s degree programme with Arno Bornkamp.