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	Royal Northern College of Music , Manchester
Accompanist	taip

Winner of several national and international level competitions, Lithuanian cellist Kotryna Šiugždinytė is described as ‘an artist of strong temperament, a great believer in music and its power, and a natural performer’. The graduate of M.K.Ciurlionis School of Arts (prof. R.Armonas) in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2013 she received a scholarship to study for a Bachelor’s degree at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, where she was taught by Karine Georgian and Philip Higham. A keen contemporary performer, Kotryna has collaborated with such ensembles as the Vonnegut Collective, the Ensemble Kinetic and the Berkeley Ensemble, performed in the prestigious Tete a Tete festival in London (2017), and earlier that year gave a world premiere of A. Smith’s ‘pulse’ for Cello and Orchestra. Recent highlights also include performance of the E. Elgar Cello Concerto with Golden Sinfonia (2018). A scholar of ABRSM, Kotryna is currently studying for her Master’s degree at the RNCM with Hannah Roberts and Jennifer Langridge.

I ROUND

1. Carlo Alfredo Piatti | "12 Caprices for Solo Cello" · Op. 25
   • No. 7
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 6 · D major · BWV 1012
3. Arvydas Malcys | Narcissus for Solo Cello

II ROUND

1. Dmitri Shostakovich | Sonata for Cello and Piano · D minor · Op. 40
2. Vladas Jakubėnas | Serenade for cello and piano
3. Zoltán Kodály | Sonata for Solo Cello · B minor · Op. 8

III ROUND

1. Edward Elgar | Concerto for Cello (F. Thomas version for string orchestra) · E minor · Op. 85