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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...
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...
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...
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...
// 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...