Maria Sotriffer 
		 (1999)
			| Austria
		
		
		
			
	
	
			Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU)
		
							
			Professor  |  Svetlana Makarova
				
			Accompanist  | Chizu Miyamoto
		
     
    			    
		    Maria Sotriffer was born in Vienna, into a musical family, and received first violin lessons from her mother at the age of two. At the age of four, she was the youngest student ever to be admitted to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in Eugenia Polatschek's class. Later she studied with Gerhard Schulz and Albena Danailova. Since 2022, she is in the class of Svetlana Makarova at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne, where after finishing her Master of Concert Performance she now takes part in the Soloist Master programme. As a soloist, Maria Sotriffer has worked with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, Camerata Musica Wien, Ensemble "Neue Streicher", Beethoven Philharmonic Orchestra in Baden, Camerata Medica Wien, among the others. She has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, such as the Ysaÿe International Music Competition in Liege, Pörtschach International Johannes Brahms Competition, London International Concerto Competition, XII International Competition for Young Musicians "Città di Massa", Mimas Music Festival-Competition, Geneva Junior Music Competition, and the XX Concorso internazionale di esecuzione musicale in Padova.
	    
	        
    
 
	 
	
	 
		
		
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			Johann Sebastian Bach  
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		Violin Sonata No. 3	 
		
		
		
		
		
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				C major
			
						
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				BWV 1005 
			 
					
		
		
		
		
												
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		III. Largo	 
		
		 		
												
 
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		IV. Allegro assai	 
		
		 		
												
 
					
									
	
		
							
			
				
						
			
			Niccolò Paganini  
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		24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 24	 
		
		
		
		
		
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				A minor
			
						
			 
					
		
		
		
			
		
							
			
				
						
			
			Algirdas Martinaitis  
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		"...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)	 
		
		
		
		
		
			
						
			 
					
		
		
		
			
		
			
		
						
					
				
		
	
		
			
	 	
			 
	
	 
		
		
		       			       II ROUND
		       			 
	       
		 
		
						
					
			
				
						
			
			Leopold Godowski—Jascha Heifetz  
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		"Alt Wien" from the Suite "Triakontameron" · Volume III	 
		
		
		
		
		
			
						
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				No. 11 
			 
					
		
		
		
			
		
							
			
				
						
			
			Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  
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		Violin Concerto No. 4	 
		
		
		
								  
		
		
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				D major
			
						
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				KV 218 
			 
					
		
		
		
			
		
							
			
				
						
			
			Pablo de Sarasate  
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		Carmen Concert Fantasy based on Georges Bizet opera "Carmen"	 
		
		
		
		
		
			
						
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				Op. 25 
			 
					
		
		
		
			
		
			
		
						
					
				
		
	
		
			
	 	
			 
	
	 
		
		
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			Jean Sibelius  
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		Violin Concerto	 
		
		
		
		
		
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				D minor
			
						
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				Op. 47 
			 
					
		
		
		
		
												
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		I. Allegro moderato	 
		
		 		
												
 
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		II. Adagio di molto	 
		
		 		
												
 
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		III. Allegro ma non tanto