List of participants 2025 

Natalie Brennecke is a violist currently pursuing her Masters at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. She received her Bachelors from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2024, where she studied with Jeffrey Irvine...

Jutta Demuynck was born in Leuven (Belgium) in 2004. She started playing the viola at the age of 8 at the music school in Aarschot with Manon Vervaet. From 2021 she continues her studies with Julia Dinerstein, first upon joining young talent class at Conservatorium Maastricht...

Ge Chang is a 21‑year‑old violist. She is currently pursuing her studies with Prof. Diyang Mei at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. She previously studied at the Middle School of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing under the guidance of Prof. Zhen Su...

Jimin Jang is a South Korean violist known for her warm sound, solid technique, and deep musical passion.
She has been recognized as a semifinalist at the Max Rostal Competition and was awarded the Pirastro Prize for an Outstanding Young Talent at the Oskar Nedbal Viola Competition...

Born in Seoul 2003, Junkyung Kang is a South Korean violist. He graduated from Seoul Arts High School and he moved to Germany to continue his musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin while enrolled at Seoul National University. ...

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Kirsten Kjær (b. 1999) is a violist currently studying in the soloist class at the Royal Danish Academy of Music with her string quartet, AKELA. In 2023, she was awarded the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl Nielsen Talent Prize, and in 2024 she received the Sonning Talent Prize along with AKELA....

Martta Kunnola (born 2005) is a Finnish viola student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, studying in Nils Mönkemeyer’s class. Previously, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, also with Mönkemeyer, and at the Sibelius Academy’s Youth Department under Annariina Jokela, Lilli Maijala, and Teemu Kupiainen...

Jason Sheng-Chieh Lan has rapidly established himself as a versatile and dynamic violist through his extensive performance experience and artistic depth. He holds the distinction of being the youngest violist in history to present a debut recital at Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, performing to a sold-out audience...

The Japanese violist An Maeyama is based in Kyoto as a member of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra since April 2023.
An graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts as a top student...

Korean violist Yeunwoo Park began her musical career as a violinist. She received her first violin lessons at the age of seven at Yewon Arts Middle School. In 2018, she was accepted into Seoul Music High School, but soon dropped out to move to Germany...

Korean violist Seoyeon Ryu recently awarded the first prize and the audience prize at the Oskar Nedbal International Viola Competition, she also won the first prize at the Johansen International Competition (JIC) and was invited for the Morningside Music Bridge as an entity of JIC winner in the United States...

Ayaka Taniguchi is a Japanese violist currently studying with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

As a soloist, she has performed a wide range of works, from Baroque to contemporary music, in various concerts and recitals...

The Chinese-born violist Yanan Wang received her first musical training from 2013 to 2018 at the High School of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing with Hai Cao. Her artistic journey took her to Europe in 2018. Yanan completed her bachelor's degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in the class of William Coleman...

Violinist and violist Miranda Werner is currently pursuing her M.M. at the Yale School of Music, where she is a student of Soovin Kim. Last spring she graduated with High Distinction and Music Honors from Indiana University, where she studied violin with Mark Kaplan and viola with Mark Holloway...

Yunqing Cao was born in China in 1999. In 2013, she was admitted to the High School Affiliated to the China Conservatory of Music (CCoM), where she studied with Professor Bai Ming. In 2017, she continued her studies at the China Conservatory of Music...

Jinglin Zhou, a 23-year-old violist, is currently pursuing master degree of music on a full scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York, under the mentorship of Carol Rodland and Samuel Rhodes. Born in 2002 in Hunan, China, Jinglin began his musical journey at the age of 10 with violin before transitioning to viola...

Xunyu Zhou is 17, she studied at the Affiliated Middle School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music with professor Liu Nian from 2017 to 2024. She began her Bachelor degree with professor Tabea Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main from 2024...