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	Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre Leipzig

Maya Alexandra Kasprzak was born in Hanover, and began playing violin at the age of four. From 2017 to 2022, she was a junior student of prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg at the Berlin University of the Arts and currently studies with prof. Tobias Feldmann at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. She have received additional artistic inspiration from renowned musicians such as prof. Zakhar Bron, prof. Mihaela Martin, prof. Barnabás Kelemen, Clara-Jumi Kang, Dimitry Sitkovetsky and Kristóf Baráti. Maya is a prize-winner of numerous national and international competitions, for example, she received multiple awards at the Jugend musiziert, the International Tibor Varga Competition (2021), and the Carl Flesch Competition (2023). She also won 3rd prize at the Bartók World Competition and is a scholarship holder of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Maya has performed with esteemed violinists like Daniel Hope and Zakhar Bron, and collaborated with conductors such as Łukasz Borowicz and János Kovács. Her performances have taken her to prestigious venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus Berlin. Since February 2020, Maya has been playing on the Joseph Gagliano violin from 1790, generously provided by the German Musical Instrument Fund of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in Hamburg.

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. 17 · E flat major

II ROUND

1. Sergei Prokofiev — Jasha Heifetz | March from the Opera "The Love for Three Oranges"
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro
3. Henryk Wieniawski | "Variations on an Original Theme" · A major · Op. 15

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