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	Mozarteum University Salzburg

Lorenz Karls was born in Vienna, into an Austrian Swedish family, and began playing the violin at the age of 4. To highlight some of his appearances as a soloist in the last seasons, it can be noted that he has performed at the Mozartwoche Salzburg, the Great Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation, and played with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, WDR Funkhausorchester, Camerata Bern, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra of Milan. Lorenz has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, among which – seven highest prizes from the member competitions of the World Federation of Music Competitions (WFIMC), including the Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the Mozart Competition in Zhuhai, 2nd prize at the International Competition "Rome Classic Violin Olympus" in 2024, and thus he will participate at the "Dubai Classic Violin Olympus" grand finals in 2025. Lorenz plays on G. B. Guadagnini “ex-Bachmann”, kindly loaned to him by the Stephan and Viktoria Schmidheiny Foundation.

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. 24 · A minor
3. Algirdas Martinaitis | "...Su paukščio giesme..." (With a Birdsong)

II ROUND

1. Henryk Wieniawski | "Variations on an Original Theme" · A major · Op. 15
2. Isaac Albéniz — Jascha Heifetz | Suite Española No. 1, Op. 47: III. "Sevilla - Sevillana" · G major
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Violin Concerto No. 4 · D major · KV 218
   • I. Allegro

III ROUND

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