Other participants

• 1. Leon Blekh, Belgium
• 2. Saulė Buikaitė, Lithuania
• 3. Jiachen Cao, China
• 4. Pijus Česaitis, Lithuania
• 5. Yige Chen, China
• 6. Sungmin Cho, South Korea
• 7. Adam Koch Christensen, Denmark
• 8. Emmanuel Coppey, France
• 9. Rokas Diržys, Lithuania
• 10. Ilva Eigus, Switzerland
• 11. Daniil Gonobolin, Ukraine
• 12. Yanis Grisó, Luxembourg
• 13. Yiwei Gu, China
• 14. Léon Haffner, France
• 15. Yuki Hirano, Japan
• 16. Kokoro Imagawa, Japan
• 17. Sara Isabelle Ispas, Romania
• 18. Lorenz Karls, Sweden
• 19. Maya Alexandra Kasprzak, Germany - Poland
• 20. Wakana Kimura, Japan
• 21. Chaeyeon Lee, South Korea
• 22. Alice Lee, Canada
• 23. Michael Lewin, Germany
• 24. Jinzhu Li, China
• 25. Haewon Lim, South Korea
• 26. Lora Markova, Bulgaria
• 27. Sakura Nakagawa, Japan
• 28. Tetsutaro Nakatani, Japan
• 29. Haerim Oh, South Korea
• 30. Zofia Anna Olesik, Poland
• 31. Hanna Pozorska, Poland
• 32. Kristijonas Pūtys, Lithuania
• 33. Sophi Rochlin, Israel
• 34. Yo Saotome, Japan
• 35. Eva Lucia Schmölzer, Austria
• 36. Iris Scialom, France
• 37. Elza Silina, Latvia
• 38. Jieun Son, South Korea
• 39. Maria Sotriffer, Austria
• 40. Yuriko Takemoto, Japan
• 41. Eva Ter-Sarkisova, Latvia
• 42. Kristóf Tóth, Hungary
• 43. Raika Yamakage, Japan
• 44. Esther Yang, South Korea
• 45. Lisa Yasuda, Japan
• 46. Mingnan Yue, China
• 47. Rok Zaletel Černoš, Slovenia
• 48. Yinan Zhao, China
• 49. Shaoheng Zhong, China

Participant data

Accompanist	Indrė Baikštytė
Education	Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin

Born in Berlin, he started violin lessons at the age of five. Since 2016, he had been a pre-college student at the Julius Stern Institute, under the guidance of prof. Bernhard Hartog, and also had private lessons with prof. Dora Schwarzberg. In 2023, he started bachelor studies at the Hanns Eisler University School of Music in Berlin with prof. Antje Weithaas, and is a mentee of the Stretton Excellence Mentorship Program, working with Yamen Saadi. He has won 1st prizes at the Jugend musiziert, the International Rudolf Matz String Competition (2018), and the International Moscow Music Competition (2021). Other awards include 2nd prize at the International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition (2023), and 1st prize with three special awards at the Szymon Goldberg Competition (2022). Michael performed at venues like the Berlin Philharmonic and the Khmelnytskyi Philharmonic, collaborated with orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the LGT Young Soloists. Recently, he debuted at the Chamber Music Hall of Berlin Philharmonic, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto with Samuel Lee. He participated in masterclasses conducted by renowned musicians like Dora Schwarzberg, Leonidas Kavakos, Chaim Taub, Vadim Gluzman, Ulf Wallin, and took part in the masterclasses of Kronberg Academy. Supported by Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Michael received an Andrea Guarneri violin (1664). Additionally, Michael plays on a Giuseppe Rocca violin (1850), which has been generously loaned to him by a member of the Stretton Society.

I ROUND

1. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 2 · A minor · BWV 1003
   • III. Andante
   • IV. Allegro
3. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 15 · E minor

II ROUND

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro
2. Johannes Brahms — Jascha Heifetz | "Contemplation". After "5 Lieder", Op. 105: No. 1 "Wie Melodien zeiht es mir" (Like Melodies It Pulls Me)
3. Camille Saint-Saëns | Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso · A minor · Op. 28

III ROUND

1. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Violin Concerto · E minor · Op. 64
   • I. Allegro molto appassionato
   • II. Andante - Allegretto non troppo
   • III. Allegro molto vivace