Participants Announced for 2025 Jascha Heifetz Competition

Over 50 participants will come to Vilnius, Lithuania to compete for the grand prize

Presented by the Center for International Cultural Projects, the VII International Jascha Heifetz Competition for Violinists will run from February 14 – 22, 2025.

Chaired by violinist Gidon Kremer, the competition will offer a prize fund of €30,000, alongside other awards.

The list of participants is as follows:

• Leon Blekh, Belgium
• Saulė Buikaitė, Lithuania
• Jiachen Cao, China
• Pijus Česaitis, Lithuania
• Yige Chen, China
• Sungmin Cho, South Korea
• Adam Koch Christensen, Denmark
• Emmanuel Coppey, France
• Rokas Diržys, Lithuania
• Ilva Eigus, Switzerland
• Hackel Elie, France
• Daniil Gonobolin, Ukraine
• Yanis Grisó, Luxembourg
• YiWei Gu, China
• Léon Haffner, France
• Yuki Hirano, Japan
• Kokoro Imagawa, Japan
• Sara Isabelle Ispas, Romania
• Lorenz Karls, Sweden
• Maya Alexandra Kasprzak, Germany/Poland
• Byeol Kim, USA
• Wakana Kimura, Japan
• Alice Lee, Canada
• Chaeyeon Lee, South Korea
• Michael Lewin, Germany
• Jinzhu Li, China
• Siyi Li, China
• Haewon Lim, South Korea
• Lora Markova, Bulgaria
• Sakura Nakagawa, Japan
• Tetsutaro Nakatani, Japan
• Haerim Oh, South Korea
• Sunjae Ok, South Korea
• Zofia Anna Olesik, Poland
• Hanna Pozorska, Poland
• Kristijonas Pūtys, Lithuania
• Sophi Rochlin, Israel
• Yo Saotome, Japan
• Eva Lucia Schmölzer, Austria
• Iris Scialom, France
• Elza Silina, Latvia
• Jieun Son, South Korea
• Maria Sotriffer, South Korea
• Yuriko Takemoto, Japan
• Eva Ter-Sarkisova, Latvia
• Kristóf Tóth, Hungary
• Ji Tong Wu, China
• Raika Yamakage, Japan
• Esther Yang, South Korea
• Lisa Yasuda, Japan
• Mingnan Yue, China
• Rok Zaletel Černoš, Slovenia
• Yinan Zhao, China
• Shaoheng Zhong, China

No more than 18 musicians will enter the second round, and a maximum of six competitors will qualify for the final.

The first and second rounds will take place at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Participants in the final round will perform with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra and its principal conductor Modestas Pitrėnas at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society.

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