Nationality Korea
Age 27

Hyunjae Lim, a violinist from Seoul, Korea, has made solo appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony. She has performed in Verizon Hall, National Gallery of Art, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Miller Outdoor Theater, and Jordan Hall, among many others. She has won numerous awards around the world including 3 prize at the 2018 Menuhin Competition in Geneva, 2nd Prize at the 2018 Ima Hogg Competition, and 1 prize at the 2017 Alfred M. Greenfield Competition. In 2015, she was the youngest prizewinner at the Singapore International Violin Competition and was also awarded the best performance of Bach prize. In the same year, she was featured on NPR’s <From the Top> 15 anniversary show. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with renowned artists including Vadim Gluzman, Gary Ho man, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Atar Arad, Peter Wiley and Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt. She has attended and performed in music festivals such as the Ravinia Steans Institute(as the Starling Foundation Fellow), Kronberg Academy Masterclass, Marvao Academy, Keshet Eilon Mastercourse, NAC Young Artist Program, Heifetz International Music Institute and Aspen Music Festival. She received a Bachelor of Music as the Howard and Carol Lidz fellowship at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Midori Goto, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Arnold Steinhardt. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music.

[Program]
First Round
· J. S. Bach Sonata No.3 in C major, BWV 1005 III. Largo IV. Allegro Assai
· N. Paganini Caprice No.7, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprice No.19, Op.1
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.20 in C major, K.303

Second Round
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.4 in A minor, Op.23
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor for solo violin, Op.27

Semifinal Round
· E. Chausson Poème, Op.25
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· S. Prokofiev Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.94a

Final Round
· J. Sibelius Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Nationality Moldova
Age 28

Lilia Pocitari, a violinist from Chișinău, Moldova, began playing the violin at the age of 3. She is currently pursuing a Violin Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Prof.Ulf Wallin, ater completing her Master of Music. In 2019, she earned her Bachelor of Music at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv under Ilya Konovalov, concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. From the age of 5, she has won numerous international competitions across Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Israel, Kazakhstan and Hungary, including the 1st Prize at the Bartók World Competition in Budapest and the Gold Medal at the International Delphic Games in Astana. She has performed under Zubin Mehta at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv, with the Wiener Kammerorchester in Wiener Konzerthaus, and with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra under Julian Rachlin, among other collaborations with conductors such as Patrik Strub, Neil Thompson, András Keller and Péter Halász. She plays the 1779 Nicola Bergonzi violin and François Nicolas Voirin bow on generous loan from Alpha Capital Anstalt.

[Program]
First Round
· J. S. Bach Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV 1004 III. Sarabande IV. Gigue
· N. Paganini Caprice No.22, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprice No.10, Op.1
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.21 in E minor, K.304

Second Round
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.1 in D major, Op.12
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor for solo violin, Op.27

Semifinal Round
· E. Grieg Sonata No.3 in C minor, Op.45
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· M. Ravel Tzigane
· F. Kreisler Gypsy Caprice

Final Round
· P. I. Tchaikovsky Concerto in D major, Op.35

Nationality U.S.A
Age 22

Since winning 1st Prize at the 2016 Menuhin International Junior Violin Competition in London at the age of 12, Yesong Sophie Lee has been “quickly building an international following as an emerging young virtuoso of outstanding potential”(The Violin Channel). She has since been the youngest prize winner at the 2022 International Jean Sibelius Competition and received Salon di Virtuosi’s Charlotte White Career Grant. Lee has gone on to perform numerous concerts and recitals throughout the US and Europe, including performances in Warsaw, Helsinki, Geneva, the Cheltenham, Gower, Oundle, Harrogate and Gstaad Music Festivals, and at the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses and Concerts. As a soloist, Lee has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Helsinki Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre des Cameristi de la Scala, the Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, and with the Richmond Symphony for their annual Gala concert, with violinist Joshua Bell. She also played Henning Kraggerud’s composition, Duo Gemini, alongside him at Victoria Hall. Lee is currently pursuing her studies with Kolja Blacher at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She is endorsed by Thomastik-Infeld Strings, and performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin, Cremona c.1734 <Ames>, which is on loan from The Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins in Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.

[Program]
First Round
· J. S. Bach Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 I. Adagio IV. Presto
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.21 in E minor, K.304
· N. Paganini Caprice No.2, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprice No.5, Op.1

Second Round
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.4 in A minor, Op.23
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.6 in E major for solo violin, Op.27

Semifinal Round
· R. Strauss Sonata in E-flat major, Op.18
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· F. Waxman Carmen Fantasy

Final Round
· J. Sibelius Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Nationality Ukraine
Age 18

Oleksii Tyshchenko, a violinist from Ukraine, started musical education at the Children’s Music School of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine at the age 5. He studied at the Secondary Specialized Music School of Kyiv State Conservatory from 2013 to 2015 and then continued at the Secondary Special Music School of Saint-Petersburg State Conser vatory under Tatiana Liberova. Since 2025, he has been studying violin with Prof.Ulf Wallin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He participated in masterclasses of Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, David Grimal and Kristóf Baráti. A laureate of more than twenty competitions, his most significant awards include the 3 Prize at the 15 International Telemann Violin Competition, Poznan(2018), the 1 Prize at the International Mussorgsky Youth Musical Competition, Saint-Petersburg(2022) the Grand Prix at the International Stravinsky Youth Musical Competition, Saint-Petersburg(2022), and the 1 Prize at the International Mravinsky Youth Competition(EMCY), Saint-Petersburg(2022), the 2nd Prize at the Tretiakov International Violin Competition (2025). He also received an award from the Maestro Temirkanov International Foundation for Cultural Initiatives (2019), participated in a musical tour of Switzerland with Stitung Petersburg(2019), and has appeared in numerous international festivals. He performed as a soloist in Austria, France, Spain, Germany, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Bahrain, Switzerland, Poland and other countries.

Program
First Round
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.18 in G major, K.301
· N. Paganini Caprices No.4, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprices No.13, Op.1
· J. S. Bach Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV 1003 III. Andante IV. Allegro

Second Round
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor for solo violin, Op.27
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.6 in A major, Op.30

Semifinal Round
· F. Waxman Carmen Fantasy
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· S. Prokofiev Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.80

Final Round
· J. Sibelius Concerto in D minor, Op.47

Nationality U.S.A
Age 26

Jason Moon, a violinist from U.S.A., is an emerging artist who draws inspiration from everything between Fritz Kreisler and Queen. He is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he also earned his Master of Music under Martin Beaver. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he completed his Bachelor of Music at the Juilliard School with Li Lin and previously studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College under Wei He. He has won numerous awards, including the 2024 Frances Rosen Violin Prize from Colburn, the Hellam Young Artists’ Competition and the Ronald Sachs International Music Competition, and has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony and Colburn Orchestra. He is also an avid chamber musician, having collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Lawrence Power and Ani Kavafian, and has pursued historically informed performance, studied baroque violin and performed with Juilliard415 and the Colburn Baroque Ensemble. He has also appeared at major summer festivals, including Music@Menlo, Taos School of Music, and Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World.

Program
First Round
· J. S. Bach Sonata No.2 in A minor, BWV 1003 III. Andante IV. Allegro
· N. Paganini Caprice No.11, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprice No.19, Op.1
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.18 in G major, K.301

Second Round
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.6 in A major, Op.30
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor for solo violin, Op.27

Semifinal Round
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· E. Chausson Poème, Op.25
· R. Strauss Sonata in E-flat major, Op.18

Final Round
· J. Brahms Concerto in D major, Op.77

Nationality Korea
Age 20

Haewon Yoon, from Korea, studied at the Korea National Institute for the Gited in Arts and graduated from Yewon School before entering the Korea National University of Arts as a gited student, where she is currently studying. In 2024, she was selected as a semifinalist at the Prague Spring International Music Competition in the violin category, and she has won the 1st Prize at the KBS-KEPCO Music Competition(strings division) as well as prizes at many other competitions, including the Dong-A Music Competition, Shinhan Music Award, Dong-A Junior Music Competition and Ewha&Kyunghyang Concours. She has also appeared as a soloist with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Seongnam Philharmonic Orchestra, Cheongju Symphony Orchestra, Gyeongbuk Provincial Symphony Orchestra, Seocho Philharmonic Orchestra and the KNUA Orchestra and has performed a recital as a part of the Kumho Young Artist Series. In addition to her solo performances, she has actively participated in chamber music, appearing at the Autumn Chamber Festival Young Chamber Recital, the Tianjin Juilliard Orchestra Symposium, the GMC Summer Music Festival Chamber Series, among many others.

Program
First Round
· W. A. Mozart Sonata No.21 in E minor, K.304
· J. S. Bach Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001 III. Siciliana IV. Presto
· N. Paganini Caprices No.7, Op.1
· N. Paganini Caprices No.24, Op.1

Second Round
· L. v. Beethoven Sonata No.3 in E-flat major, Op.12
· E. Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor for solo violin, Op.27

Semifinal Round
· S. Prokofiev Sonata No.1 in F minor, Op.80
· Eun-Hwa Cho Präludien I. B.A.C.H. für Violine Solo(2025)
· J. Hubay Carmen Fantasie Brillante, Op.3, No.3

Final Round
· J. Sibelius Concerto in D minor, Op.47