The sixteenth Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competitors completed this week, with the €50,000 first prize going to the younger Japanese violinist Hina Maeda. Second prize went to Meruert Karmenova from Kazakhstan, whereas Qingzhu Weng was awarded third prize.
A complete of six contestants made it to the ultimate spherical of the competition, which is held in Poznań, Poland. The six finalists all carried out two items – the Brahms Violin Concerto, and the Second Violin Concerto by the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. The Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra offered the accompaniment, with Łukasz Borowicz conducting.
Augustin Dumay, President of the Jury, is proud of the way in which the competitors went and says: ‘Our purpose within the sixteenth Worldwide Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competitors was clearly to not attempt to spotlight the ‘violin champions of the week in Poznań’ however slightly to find younger musicians, delicate, clever, refined, with a powerful persona, whom we want to pay attention on and on for years.’
The three winners of the Wieniawski Competitors will now head off on a world tour, taking part in a complete of 60 concert events in 20 nations throughout 5 continents.
The prize-winners’ live performance shall be live-streamed in Poznań on Friday, 21 October at pm, and you may watch it through the Competitors’s official YouTube web page.
The Wieniawski Competitors takes place each 4 years: the following one will happen in 2026. Earlier winners have included Ginette Neveu who received in 1935, on the age of 15. The legendary Russian violinist David Oistrakh was runner-up that yr.
Photographs: Leszek Zadón / Recent Body
