Organized by the Guadagnini Foundation, the Stuttgart International Violin Competition is open to international violinists aged 28 and younger.
Out of hundreds of applications, the following 24 participants were selected to take part in the Stuttgart International Violin Competition 2027:
- Mariam Abouzahra, 18, Germany/Egypt/Hungary
- Jiachen Cao, 20, China
- Sungmin Cho, 25, South Korea
- Rokas Diržys, 18, Lithuania
- Kaori Furusawa, 27, Japan
- Seonglan Hong, 25, South Korea
- Julia Jones, 22, United States of America
- Lorenz Karls, 25, Sweden
- Wenqi Ke, 27, China
- Juyeon Diana Lee, 22, South Korea
- Jinzhu Li, 19, China
- Zi Yang Low, 22, Malaysia
- Boha Moon, 20, South Korea
- Jason Moon, 27, United States of America
- Haerim Oh, 27, South Korea
- Darius Preuß, 22, Germany
- Enrique Rodrigues, 24, United States of America
- Yuki Serino, 20, Italy
- Norman Spaeth, 23, Germany
- Dindin Jingyi Wang, 20, China
- Julia-Xiaozhuo Wang, 19, China
- Haewon Yoon, 21, South Korea
- Xunyue Zhang, 22, China
- Alex Zhou, 25, United States of America
The first prize winner will win a cash prize of €35,000, several major performance engagements in Germany, and the three-year loan of the 1743 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini “ex-Reisenberg” violin, generously provided by Rare Violins of New York.
Second place will be endowed with €16,000, third place with €10,000, and fourth prize with €6,000. The Special Prize sponsored by Lions Club Stuttgart-Altes Schloss will include €3,000 for the best interpretation of a commissioned piece — Avner Dorman’s Schwung for solo violin.
The 2027 jury will comprise Christoph Poppen (president), Ilya Kaler, Harald Eggebrecht, Feng Ning, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Stabrawa, Friederike Starkloff, Ulf Wallin, and Tianwa Yang.
The competition will consist of three rounds. The first two rounds take place with a piano accompaniment, while the final will be accompanied partially by the Cuarteto Arriaga de Banco de España and partially by the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Michał Nesterowicz.
“A competition like this thrives on its spirit, its concept, and its authenticity, which is conveyed to the participants and radiates a sense of uniqueness,” Markus Klein, President of the Guadagnini Foundation, told The Violin Channel.
“We are very pleased that we received a large number of applications for the first two competitions and that the level of the candidates reflected our own ambition to be ranked among the most important international violin competitions,” Klein continued.
“Another contributing factor is that our jury is always made up of violin personalities of the highest international reputation, which, in addition to the exclusive prize money and the offer of a Guadagnini violin from 1743 on loan, is of inestimable value to the candidates, who have the opportunity to present themselves to these personalities and benefit from their expertise.
“Our cooperation with VC, which above all enables us to livestream worldwide with an enormous reach, as well as other media partnerships, also contributed to the Stuttgart International Violin Competition establishing itself internationally from the very beginning and very soon becoming a member of the WFIM,” he concludes.
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