The second prize was awarded to 16-year-old Nurie Chung from South Korea and joint third prizes were awarded to 22-year-old Lara Boschkor from Germany and

A student of Blagorodna Taneva at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, Lora is a former major prize winner at the Andrea Postacchini,

Aram Khachaturian Violin Concerto in D minor premiered on this day in 1940. The first performance was given by violinist David Oistrakh, in Moscow.   HAIK KAZAZYAN |

Soviet-born violinist and pedagogue Elizabeth Gilels died on this day in 2008 - aged 88. A student of Pyotr Stolyarsky, Ms Gilels was a former prize winner at the