Other participants

• 1. Lionel Martin, Germany
• 2. Mikhail Makhnach, Belarus
• 3. Arsenii Stavytskyi, Ukraine
• 4. Ivan Pshenichnikov, Russia
• 5. Augustas Gocentas, Lithuania
• 6. Che-Wei Kuo, Taiwan
• 7. Bence Bánkövi, Hungary
• 8. Raphaela Paetsch, Switzerland
• 9. Megan Yip, United States
• 10. Mingyue Zhao, China
• 11. Kamil Mukhametdinov, Switzerland
• 12. Anna Skladannaya, Russia
• 13. Krystyna Wiśniewska, Poland
• 14. David Ezhov, Russia
• 15. Aihao Zheng, China
• 16. Serafim Volkov, Russia
• 17. Florian Pons, France
• 18. Kotryna Šiugždinytė, Great Britain
• 19. Mara Lobo, Portugal
• 20. Gaudas Paulius Krištaponis, Lithuania
• 21. Kyung Jun Lee, South Korea
• 22. Timur Kolodyazhny, Russia
• 23. Despond Zoltan, Switzerland
• 24. Constantin Macherel, Switzerland
• 25. Christine Caroline Lamprea, United States

Participant data

Name of the educational insititution	Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Accompanist	yes

Born in 1992, in Portugal, into a family of Brazilian musicians, Mara Lobo started her cello studies at four years old, under Jaroslav Mikuš. At the age of 17, she was admitted to the class of Stefan Popov at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. After being awarded a full scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, she has, since 2015, been continuing her studies with Martin Ostertag and at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Mara Lobo regularly attends masterclasses with such artists like Wolfgang Boettcher, Karine Georgian, Antonio Meneses, Claudio Bohórquez, Daniel Grosgurin, Natalia Gutman, Amit Peled, and Christophe Coin, among others. A 1st-Prize winner of several cello competitions, Mara has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Portugal, Germany, France, the UK, Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Brazil, including live recordings for the German radio station SWR2 and the Brazilian Rádio MEC.

I ROUND

1. Carlo Alfredo Piatti | "12 Caprices for Solo Cello" · Op. 25
   • No. 2
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 2 · D minor · BWV 1008
3. Arvydas Malcys | Narcissus for Solo Cello

II ROUND

1. Ludwig van Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 5 · Op. 102 No. 2 · D major
2. Vladas Jakubėnas | Serenade for cello and piano
3. Robert Schumann | Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano · A flat major · Op. 70

III ROUND

1. Robert Schumann | Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (A. H. Lilienthal version for string orchestra) · A minor · Op. 129