The suspense is over: the winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2022 have been announced!

These are the laureates of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cello:
First prize went to the South Korean Hayoung Choi (24); second prize was given to the Chinese cellist Yibai Chen (20); the Estonian Marcel Johannes Kits (27) took third prize, while fourth prize went to the Ukrainian Oleksiy Shadrin (28); the Serbian cellist Petar Pejčić (20) took fifth prize, while sixth prize went to the Canadian Bryan Cheng (24).

The public prize went to the only Belgian cellist in the final, Stéphanie Huang.