VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists

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VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists

0. Sara Isabelle Ispas, Romania

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Accompanist Jonė Punytė-Svigarienė
Education Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin

Australian-Romanian violinist Sara Isabelle Ispas started studying the violin with her father Daniel Ispas in 2013. She is currently a bachelor student of prof. Kolja Blacher at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin. Before that she had finished a 4-year full-ride scholarship program at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland, where she had studied with Oleg Kaskiv, Renaud Capuçon and Guillaume Chilemme. She has received musical guidance from famous artists such as Michael Vaiman, Pierre Amoyal, Liviu Prunaru, Kirill Troussov, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Petru Munteanu, Jean-Jacques Kantorov, Alena Baeva, Ioana Cristina Goicea, Baiba Skride, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Rainer Honeck. Sara is 2nd prize winner of the Carl Flesch International Violin Competition 2023, 2nd prize, the Baroque Prize and the prestigious Reinhold Würth Professional Advancement Award winner of the Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition 2022, 3rd prize in "Excellence" category and the Best Sound Award laureate of the Marie Cantagrill International Violin Competition 2022, 3rd prize winner of the Leonid Kogan International Violin Competition 2022, and 1st prize winner of the International Violin Competition FLAME 2017. As a soloist and a chamber musician she has performed in Switzerland, Germany, France, Poland, Hungary and Italy. Since her debut at the Victoria Hall in Geneva, 2022, Sara has performed as a soloist with the Menuhin Academy Soloists, the Savaria Symphony Orchestra and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra. Sara plays on a fine old Italian violin on generous loan of the Florian Leonhard Fellowship.

I ROUND

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 2 · A minor · BWV 1003
    • III. Andante
    • IV. Allegro
  2. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)
  3. Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 10 · G minor

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. Camille Saint-Saëns | Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso · A minor · Op. 28

III ROUND

  1. Max Bruch | "Scottish Fantasy" · E flat major · Op. 46
    • I. Introduction: Grave; Adagio cantabile
    • II. Allegro
    • III. Andante sostenuto
    • IV. Finale: Allegro guerriero

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