Le Lievre was presented with the Freemasons District $1500 gold ribbon prize by grandmaster Graham Wrigley and district master Nigel Friggens. He also received the Peter and Valerie Williams Cup, which is awarded to the winner.
Le Lievre studies piano with Jan Beck and passed the ATCL piano recital diploma with distinction last year, when he was also a finalist in the YMY 2020 competition.
He is a year 12 student at Lindisfarne College where he's been involved in chamber music contests for some years. He also learns trombone with John Snowling and plays in Quintessentially Brass Quintet, plus the school's symphonic and jazz bands.
Violinist Ivy Wu from Napier was the second place-getter for the second year in a row. She received the Freemasons $750 silver ribbon prize and the Walter and Beryl Gollner Memorial Cup. She studies violin with Marian Stronach and is a student at Napier Girls' High School.
Another Napier Girls' High student, pianist Madeline Krebs, also studying with Jan Beck, was third and received $500.
The remaining finalists, pianists Julia Spurgeon and Leo Guo, and drummer Kevin Lu, each received a June Armstrong Memorial Prize of $150 and a Music Works Hastings voucher of $100.
The YMY website youngmusicianshb.wordpress.com has full details.
