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	Simona Zajančauskaitė
Education	Xinghai Conservatory of Music

Shaoheng Zhong first gained international recognition in 2019 when, at the age of ten, he became the youngest performer to win 2nd prize in Category A at the 3rd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians. Soon after, this achievement was followed by the 1st prize in Category B at the 15th Arthur Grumiaux International Violin Competition, as well as 2nd prize and the Note di Talento—a special award for the best performance of the commissioned work by Stefano Delle Donne—at the inaugural Città di Cremona Competition. At the same competition, he also received a special prize granting him, as one of the outstanding finalist’s, with the opportunity to perform at the 2024 Stradivari Festival. That same year, he was accepted into the prestigious Morningside Music Bridge program on a full scholarship. Shaoheng began formal violin studies with Xian Luo at the age of five, and was soon admitted to the Guangzhou Tianhe Children's Palace String Orchestra as the principal violinist. At the age of twelve, he was ranked first after his entrance exams to the Middle School of Xinghai Conservatory of Music, where he is currently a 10th-grade student, working with Chair of Strings Department Xin Lin to this day. At the moment, he also participates in prof. Wei Lu's teaching studio.

I ROUND

1. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 1 · G minor · BWV 1001
   • III. Siciliana
   • IV. Presto
2. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 1 · E major
3. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)

II ROUND

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro
2. Leopold Godowski—Jascha Heifetz | "Alt Wien" from the Suite "Triakontameron" · Volume III · No. 11
3. Henryk Wieniawski | "Variations on an Original Theme" · Op. 15

III ROUND

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