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	The Juilliard School

Sungmin Cho, a violinist from Seoul, graduated from Seoul Arts High School, and is currently studying with prof. David Chan at The Juilliard School, where he also received his bachelor’s degree in 2024, while working with prof. Ronald Copes and prof. Joseph Lin. He had his solo concert debut under the auspices of the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series held for gifted youth at the age of 13. He has acquired years of solo experience by winning prestigious music competitions and successfully passing auditions. He has won numerous awards at such competitions as the Princess Astrid International Music Competition 2024, XXXVIII Music Association of Korea Competition, XXVI Sungjung Music Competition, XXVII KBS KEPCO Music Competition, LVIII Dong-A Music Competition, Seoul Youth Chamber Music Competition, he passed the Art Sylvia Chamber Music Audition, won the TBC Music Competition, among the others. As a soloist he has appeared with world-renowned orchestras, including the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Yamagata Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Kyungpook Symphony Orchestra, and the others. Also, he has performed at numerous venues worldwide, such as the Dvořák Hall in Rudolfinum, Lincoln Center, Seoul Arts Center, Kumho Art Hall, Samsung Electronics Art Hall, Hitachi Systems Hall. He has obtained important musical impulses and experiences from masterclasses with many world-renowned musicians, including Rodney Friend, György Pauk, Kyoko Takezawa, Gérard Poulet, Cho-Liang Lin and Koichiro Harada.

I ROUND

1. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 2 · A minor · BWV 1003
   • III. Andante
   • IV. Allegro
3. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 24 · A minor

II ROUND

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro
2. Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Valse-Scherzo · Op. 34 · C major · TH 58
3. Manuel Ponce — Jascha Heifetz | "Estrellita" (Little Star) · transcription for violin and piano

III ROUND

1. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy | Violin Concerto · E minor · Op. 64
   • I. Allegro molto appassionato
   • II. Andante - Allegretto non troppo
   • III. Allegro molto vivace