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	Chizu Miyamoto
Education	Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (HEMU)

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.

I ROUND

1. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 3 · C major · BWV 1005
   • III. Largo
   • IV. Allegro assai
2. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 24 · A minor
3. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)

II ROUND

1. Leopold Godowski—Jascha Heifetz | "Alt Wien" from the Suite "Triakontameron" · Volume III · No. 11
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro
3. Pablo de Sarasate | Carmen Concert Fantasy based on Georges Bizet opera "Carmen" · Op. 25

III ROUND

1. Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto · D minor · Op. 47
   • I. Allegro moderato
   • II. Adagio di molto
   • III. Allegro ma non tanto