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VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists

0. Yo Saotome, Japan

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Accompanist	Eglė Kižytė-Ramonienė
Education	Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin

Yo Saotome was born in Japan and began playing the violin at the age of five. She was a student at the Juilliard School Pre-College, studying with Masao Kawasaki, and after continued her studies at the Toho Gakuen Music School under the guidance of Masafumi Hori. Yo has won several prizes, including 1st prize at the III and VI Toho Music Competition and 2nd prize at the LXXIII National Student Music Competition in Japan. In 2014, she was the youngest participant at the Aspen Music Festival-Academy. In 2022, she received a scholarship for participation at the Taiwan Music Academy & Festival. She also played in a quartet coached by Nobuko Yamazaki and Kazuhide Isomura, and was the youngest ensemble selected for the Toho Gakuen Chamber Music Concert in 2018. She has attended masterclasses with Mihaela Martin, Koichiro Harada, Cho-Liang Lin, Rodney Friend, Oleg Kaskiv, Anne Akiko Meyers, among the others. From April 2024, Yo has been studying at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin.

I ROUND

Johann Sebastian Bach | Violin Sonata No. 3 · C major · BWV 1005
- III. Largo
- IV. Allegro assai
Niccolò Paganini | 24 Caprices for Solo Violin · Op. 1: No. 19 · E flat major
Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)

II ROUND

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
- I. Allegro
Eugène Ysaÿe — Camille Saint-Saëns | Caprice after a „Etude en forme de valse“ · Op. 52 · D major · No. 6
Sergei Prokofiev — Jasha Heifetz | March from the Opera "The Love for Three Oranges"

III ROUND

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

VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists