Dmytro Udovychenko wins the 2024 Violin Competition

Dmytro Udovychenko wins the 2024 Violin Competition! The International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize - Queen Mathilde Prize receives € 25,000 and numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad. He will also have the honour to play the 'Huggins' 1708 Stradivarius for four years, on loan by the Nippon Music Foundation.

The prizewinners of Violin 2024

INTERNATIONAL QUEEN ELISABETH GRAND PRIZE : €25.000

First Prize - Queen Mathilde Prize

Dmytro Udovychenko

BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRIZE : €20.000

Second Prize, awarded by the Belgian Science Policy

Joshua Brown

COUNT DE LAUNOIT PRIZE : €17.000

Third Prize

Elli Choi

PRIZE OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE BELGIAN COMMUNITIES : €12.500

Fourth Prize, this year awarded by the Government of the German-speaking Community

Kevin Zhu

BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION PRIZE : €10.000

Fifth Prize

Julian Rhee

CITY OF BRUSSELS PRIZE : €8.000

Sixth Prize

Minami Yoshida

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL LOTTERY

each of the six unranked laureates receive €4.000 :

Hana Chang

SongHa Choi

Anna Im

Karen Su

Ruslan Talas

Dayoon You

Audience awards

Joshua Brown wins the Musiq3 Prize and the Canvas-Klara Prize, both worth € 2.500.

Laureates' concerts

You can continue to enjoy their performances on our website, but for those who want to hear them perform live, the laureates have many concerts and recitals in store in the coming weeks.

4CD "Violin 2024"

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to immerse yourself in the unique live recordings of the 2024 Violin Competition. The 4CD box set contains the best memories of this year's violin session and will be available in all record stores as from Saturday 8 June. You can also pre-order it in our webshop. If you buy the box set before Sunday 2 June midnight in the webshop, you pay no shipping costs and you will receive an unedited bonus CD by a former laureate of the Violin Competition.

VIOLIN 2024 : First Prize

Dmytro Udovychenko trained at the Kharkiv Specialized Music Boarding School under Ludmila Varenina and at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen under Boris Garlitsky. He perfected his skills in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Stephan Picard and Leonidas Kavakos. In 2022 he was accepted into the class of Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy. Dmytro Udovychenko has won the Heifetz Competition in Vilnius, the Odessa Competition and the Grand Prize of the Andrea Postacchini Competition in Fermo. In 2018 he won the Second Prize, Audience Prize and Internet Community Prize at the Josef Joachim Competition in Hanover. More recently, he was awarded Third Prize at the Sibelius Competition and First Prize at the Singapore and Montréal Competitions. He is supported by the Vere Music Fund, Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz and Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Teachers

2022 - : Christian Tetzlaff

2013 - : Boris Garlitsky

2005 - 2016 : Ludmila Varenina

Degrees

2022 - : Professional Studies, Kronberg Academy

2016 - : Bachelor, Folkwang Universität der Künste

2005 - 2016 : Secondary education, Kharkiv Specialized Music Boarding School

Competitions

2023 : 1st, Montreal International Violin Competition

2022 : 3rd, XII Jan Sibelius International Violin Competition

2022 : 1st, Singapore International Violin Competition

2021 : 1st, II Odesa International Violin Competition

2018 : Grand Prix, Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition

2018 : 2nd, Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition

2017 : 2nd, V Jascha Heifetz International Violin Competition

VIOLIN 2024 : Second Prize

Joshua Brown is currently studying under Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory. He won First Prize and several special prizes at the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg ; he also distinguished himself at the Indianapolis Competition and more recently won the Gold Medal at the first China International Music Competition. Joshua Brown has shared the stage with such leading orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the MDR-Sinfonieorchester and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He has performed in concert halls around the world, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Severance Hall in Cleveland, the Symphony Center in Chicago, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Teachers

2018 - : Donald Weilerstein

2013 - 2018 : Almita and Roland Vamos

2005 - 2013 : Amy Beth Horman

Degrees

2022 - : Masters of Music in Violin Performance, New England Conservatory

2018 - 2022 : Bachelors of Music in Violin Performance, New England Conservatory

Competitions

2023 : Gold Medal, China International Violin Competition

2022 : Sixth, 11th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

2019 : First Prize, “Mozart” Prize, Audience Award, Chairman of the Jury Special Prize, Kronberg Academy Special Prize, and CD Production Special Prize, International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart

2018 : Gold Medal, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Junior Division

2018 : First, Yamaha Young Performing Artist Auditions

2016 : Grand Prize, Enkor International Music Competition

2016 : First, The Bonnie and Lee Malmed Skokie Valley Symphony National Competition

2015 : Second and Audience Prize, Cooper International Violin Competition

VIOLIN 2024 : Third Prize

Elli Choi is pursuing an undergraduate degree at Columbia University, where she is majoring in economics-philosophy, while simultaneously training at The Juilliard School, where she has been studying since 2009. She is a laureate of the Classic Strings Competition in Dubai, the Fritz Kreisler Competition and the Qingdao Competition. She has collaborated with such orchestras as the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Elli Choi has already given many concerts in the United States, Europe and the Middle East, in major venues such as the David Geffen Hall, the David H. Koch Theater, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Abu Dhabi Palace and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.

Teachers

2023 - present : Li Lin

2017 - 2023 : Joseph Lin

2013 - 2017 : Ida Kavafian

Competitions

2023 : 2nd, China International Music Competition GMEL

2023 : 1st, Qingdao International Violin Competition

2022 : 6th, Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition

2022 : 3rd, Classic Strings International Competition in Dubai

2019 : 2nd, Zhuhai International Mozart Competition

2016 : 1st, World Music Masters of Monaco