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Diana was born in Yerevan and started playing the violin in P. Haykazyan’s class. Since 2017, she has studied at the Yerevan Conservatory with E. Tadevosyan. She has been a laureate of several international competitions, including the Nutcracker 13th TV competition and the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young...
Jiyee Jen Ahn was recently chosen as a winner for NPR's From the Top, and the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship programme where she was awarded $10,000 to invest towards her music education. Jiyee made her debut at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall aged 11. She has performed with the Union City Philharmonic in New York and New Jersey in...
Otto Antikainen started playing violin at the age of five. In 2012 he was accepted to the Sibelius Academy youth department to study with Prof. Réka Szilvay and also to the Violin Academy, where the teachers are Ilya Grubert, Elina Vähälä and Janne Malmivaara. In 2016, Otto won 1st Prize in the Jyväskylä Violin Competition. Otto has...
Born in Okayama, Japan, Non Aoyama began playing the violin at the age of four and is currently studying under Masaaki Tanokura, Machie Oguri and Takashi Shimizu. In 2016, she won the 1st Prize along with many special awards at the 70th All Japan Students Music Competition. In 2017, she won the 2nd Prize, with the Virtuoso Prize at...
Rio was born in Tokyo, and is currently studying as a first-year student of violin at the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts, where she holds a Tokuji Munetsugu special scholarship. She has won multiple awards, including the 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the 15th Tokyo Music Competition in the string section in...
Zachary Brandon is a 2021 Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music where he studies with Robert Lipsett. Zachary was the 4th place Laureate in the International Stradivarius Violin Competition and the 4th Prize winner in the Cooper International Violin Competition. He was a two-time finalist and the Bach...
Awarded the 2nd Prize at the 2017 Cooper International Violin Competition and Silver Medal at the 2017 Stulberg International String Competition, Qing Yu Chen is a rising young violinist of extraordinary potential. A National YoungArts Foundation Finalist, she has made appearances with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, Shattered Glass...
I-hao Cheng started his first violin lessons at the age of five with Mr. Lo Shi Su in Taiwan. In January 2012, I-hao started to study with Mikhail Kopelman at the Eastman School of Music. In 2014, he was offered a full scholarship to study violin with Victor Danchenko and Barry Shiffman at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto....
Elli is quickly establishing herself as one the most talented violinists of her generation. She has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Elli has been studying at the Juilliard Pre-College since the age of seven. In September 2016, she was the winner of the Monaco World Music...
Chloe Chua, an 11-year-old violinist from Singapore, has been a violin student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), School of Young Talents (SYT) Strings Section, since she was four years old. She is currently studying with Mr Yin Ke, String Programme Leader of SYT. Apart from performing in public concerts, masterclasses and...
Nurie Chung has been taught by NamYun Kim at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts since 2013. He has won many international and national competitions. In addition to many national competition victories, he won 1st Prize of Il Piccolo Violin Magico in Italy in 2016, and won the grand prize across all categories of the...
A laureate of two international violin competitions, Marley Erickson has appeared as soloist with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic. An enthusiast of new music, she has premiered several works for solo violin and received critical acclaim for her performance on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series at Disney...
13-year-old Jacques Forestier began studying the violin at the age of two at Alberta College Conservatory of Music in Edmonton, Canada. Jacques is currently studying with distinguished teacher Bill Van der Sloot in the Honours Academy for Gifted Youth at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. Jacques has had the great opportunity...
Michael began playing the violin at five years old. He has won the talent prize at the Jacob Gade Violin Competition, received the gold medal at the Berlingskes Music Competiton and won the 1st Prize in the Scandinavian Øresundssolist. He has participated in the Menuhin Competition 2016 and the Louis Spohr Competition. He is a...
Born in NY, United States in 2005, she started playing the violin at the age of five. Helen Hyun is a prizewinner of the 2017 Shlomo Mintz International Violin Competition, and was the youngest competitor. She entered the Music Academy for Young Gifted Musicians at the Seoul Arts Centre, Korea in 2011 and made her solo orchestral...
Japanese-American violinist Miray Ito made her professional orchestral debut aged 12. Her other achievements, to name a few, include first prize at the Kocian International Violin Competition in Czech Republic, an invitation to perform in Carnegie Hall in 2014, and a major prize at the Kloster Schöntal International Violin...
// Yehun Danny unfortunately had to withdraw from the Competition for personal reasons //
Yehun Danny Jin began learning the violin aged three, making his debut with the Seoul Royal Symphony as a soloist at the age of nine. After studying at Korean National University of Arts and the Korean National School for the Gifted in Arts, he...
At 9 years of age, violinist Yeyeong Jin was the youngest violinist ever to be admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music and has been studying with Ida Kavafian ever since. She started playing as a soloist with orchestras and performed her first solo recital at age 5. She won the Kumho-Asiana Cultural Foundation Award which resulted...
Kyota Kakiuchi started playing the violin at the age of two and half, moving to the United Kingdom when he was 10 to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School. He has won 1st Prize in 2010’s Hanamizuki Arts Festival, 1st Prize in 2012’s Anna Ono Cup Competition and 2nd Prize in 2015’s Kariya International Music Competition. He has played in...
Elena Kawazu began her violin studies aged four, made her international orchestra debut with the Staatskapelle Weimar at the age of nine and has been a prizewinner of several international violin competitions: Wieniawski in Lublin, Louis Spohr, and Kloster Schöntal, among others. She currently studies with Prof. Ilya Gringolts at the...
Hina Khuong-Huu started to play the violin when she was three years old. She has won top prizes at the Osaka International Competition, the Grumiaux Competition, and Il Piccolo Violino Magico. She has attended the Musica Mundi Chamber Music Course and Festival in Belgium, and currently attends the Spence School in New York. Hina is a...
Caecilia Lee began playing the violin at the age of three. She was accepted into the Juilliard Pre-College when she was 10 and in the following year she gave her first solo recital at Paul Hall, Juilliard School. She is a prizewinner of numerous competitions such as the New York Music Competition, National Young Musicians Showcase...
Christian Li began learning violin at the age of five and studies under Dr. Robin Wilson, Head of Violin at Australian National Music Academy in Melbourne. In July 2017 Christian won 1st Prize in the violin category of the Young Artist Semper Music International Competition in Italy and was also selected to perform at Carnegie Hall...
Dong Min Lim began playing the violin aged 6. He is currently attending the Korea National University of Arts and studies violin under Nam Yoon Kim, Seong Sook Kim, and Koichiro Harada. He made his debut recital in the Kumho Prodigy series concert at the age of 16 in 2017. He performed as a soloist with the KNIGA Orchestra, Yongin...
Haewon Lim has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Ditto Orchestra and the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra at the Suwon Hwasung Fortress International Music Festival. She has also participated in the Ishigawa Music Academy, the Great Mountains Music Festival & School, the Busan International Music Festival & School, and in...
Recently featured as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the 2017-2018 season, Hyun Jae Lim has won top prizes in many international competitions. She was the winner of 2017 Alfred M. Greenfield Competition, the youngest prizewinner, and was awarded the Bach Prize at the 2015 Singapore International Violin Competition, 1st...
Ruibing Liu began playing the violin aged four. She studied with Professor Jiyang Zhao from 2013, and since 2014 has studied with Professor Qing Zheng at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2013, she won 1st place at the 3rd Little Gold Bell National Youth Violin Competition, and in 2016 she was chosen to perform at the opening...
As a virtuoso violinist, Zhen won the 2nd Prize in the first Hong Kong International Violin Competition in 2011. In 2012, he participated in the Menuhin Competition in Beijing, China. From 2012 to 2014, he took part in the Calgary Music Festival’s ‘Morningside Music Bridge’ and won the 3rd chamber prize in 2014. Zhen attended the...
Tianyou Ma was born in 2000 in Shenzhen, China and began to play violin when he was three, studying with PingXing Li and Songyang Li in Tianjin and Shenzhen. Following a move to Australia, he gave several concerto performances with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. After studying with Keith Crellin, he joined the Yehudi Menuhin School in...
Nathan has been studying violin at the Conservatoire de Musique de Paris. In 2013, he won the 1st Prize at the 7th International Louis Spohr Competition for young violinists in Weimar. Other awards followed, giving him the opportunity to play with regional orchestras like Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy and Staatskapelle...
15-year-old Sean Mori has been playing the violin since the age of three, and had his first solo performance at the age of five. He currently studies with Ian Swensen and Elbert Tsai at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and previously studied with Li Lin and Wei He. Sean was invited to perform at the 2012 Steinway Society’s...
Since her solo debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra aged nine, Christina has performed internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. Christina has been the top prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, most recently winning 2nd Prize at the 2017 Cooper International Violin Competition performing...
Nikola Pajanović is from Ljubljana, Slovenia. He studies violin at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana with Professor Gorjan Košuta. In his 11 years of studying violin, he has won 1st place in international competitions 14 times in Czech Republic, Serbia, Italy, Macedonia and Slovenia, such as 1st Prize winner and Laureate of the...
Serin is a fourth-year student in Juilliard Pre-college studying with Catherine Cho. Born in NYC, Serin began her violin studies at the age of five with Solim Shin. She also had lessons with Lisa Kim from NY Philharmonic, Yu Jeong Lee, and Francesca dePasquale. Serin has performed in prestigious halls throughout New York, Virginia,...
Guido began playing the violin aged five with the help of his family. He performed with an orchestra as soloist for the first time at the age of seven, and since then has performed numerous times as a soloist, most of them with the Filarmonica Bachiana Orchestra, under the direction of João Carlos Martins. He has also performed with...
Clara Shen, born in Munich, Germany, began playing the violin aged five and is currently a student of Sonja Korkeala and Paul Roczek. Following several 1st Prizes in national violin competitions, she became a prizewinner at the 17th Kloster Schöntal Violin Competition and the 2nd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young...
14-year-old Hanchi began playing the violin at four. Since being accepted to the Juilliard Pre-College Programme in 2014, she has been studying with Professor I-Hao Lee. Hanchi has performed as a soloist with the Lee University Orchestra and the Chinese New Music Orchestra in Beijing Concert Hall. She has also performed in solo...
Swiss-Japanese Sumina is a prizewinner of the Michael Hill, Louis Spohr & Arthur Grumiaux Competitions, Verbier Festival’s Prix Rotary, EMCY-Award winner and three-time 1st Prize winner of the Swiss National Youth Music Competition. She performs in Japan, Switzerland, Germany, China to name but a few. She studies with Prof. Antje...
Takumi Taguchi currently studies with Simon James, Assistant Concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, and has attended various summer festivals and camps to work with teachers such as Aaron Rosand and Gerardo Ribeiro. He has performed concerti with professional orchestras including the Seattle Symphony and attended the Juilliard...
Anatol János was born in Switzerland and started playing the violin at the age of three. Since 2013, he has been studying with Prof. Barbara Doll in Basel. He has attended masterclasses with, and received musical advice from Nora Chastain, György Pauk, Alf Richard Kraggerud and Yuki Ishibashi. He performs frequently both as a soloist...
20-year-old Eric Tsai began his violin training at the age of four. He is currently enrolled in the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies with Ida Kavafian. Eric has performed with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Gadsden Symphony Orchestra, and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has played in masterclasses...
Julian Walder began playing the violin at the age of five, and currently studies with Professor Y. Kless at the University of Arts Graz, as well as privately with K. Krueger. He has performed in concerts across Europe in Russia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Belgium, Germany as well as his native Austria, and has...
Jinyu Wang is currently a student at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore where he studies with Prof. Qian Zhou. In 2011, he won 3rd Prize in the CCTV Piano and Violin Competition. In 2013, he won the 2nd Prize in the American Thomas-Kumba Cup International Competition in China. In 2014, he won the...
Jinyoung Yoon was born in South Korea in 1998. She started playing the violin aged five and attended Yewon Middle School of Music in Seoul. While studying with Joseph Kim and Boksu Kim, Jinyoung won the grand prize in the Music Education Newspaper Competition and 1st Prize in the Baroque Competition in Korea. In 2010, she was...