Students selected for the 2024 edition
Alphabetical order per instrument - Nationality as a country - Last school
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- Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2024
- Nationality: Israel
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 18
- Last or current school: Jerusalem Music Center
- https://www.jmc.org.il/en/
- Instrument played: Naama plays a violin generously lent to her by the Jerusalem Music Center.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Israel
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 18
- Last or current school: Jerusalem Music Center
- https://www.jmc.org.il/en/
- Edition of the Academy: 2023, 2024
- Nationality: Serbia
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 18
- Last or current school: University for Music and Performing Arts Graz
- https://www.kug.ac.at/en/
- Edition of the Academy: 2024, 2022
- Nationality: Germany
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 18
- Last or current school: Universität der Künste Berlin
- https://www.udk-berlin.de/startseite/
- Instrument played: As a laureat of the 28th competition of "Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfond", she has the honour of playing an Italian violin by L. Ventapane (1806).
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: USA - Italy
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 23
- Last or current school: Accademia Stauffer, Cremona
- https://www.stauffer.org/corsi-categorie/accademia-stauffer/corsi-annuali-di-alto-perfezionamento
- Diplomas: Masters in violin at the Yale School of Music
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 26
- Last or current school: Yale University
- https://www.yale.edu
- 1st prize winner at the Fanny Mendelssohn and International Salzburg music competitions.
- Instrument played: Plays on a 1731 Nicolò Gagliano violin and W. Hill bow, on loan from a generous private benefactor.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Ukraine
- Instrument: Violin
- Age during Academy: 20
- Last or current school: FHNW, Music Academy of Basel
- https://www.fhnw.ch/en/about-fhnw/schools/music
- Ysaÿe International Music Competition, Liège/Belgium (2019, 1st Prize), Oleksiy Gorokhov International Competition-Festival (2022, 1st Prize)
- Edition of the Academy: 2024, 2021
- Nationality: Switzerland
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 20
- Last or current school: CNSMDP - Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
- https://www.conservatoiredeparis.fr/fr/pole/musique
- 3 times winner of the Swiss Youth Music Competition in solo viola, as well as 3 times in chamber music.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Germany
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 24
- Last or current school: Haute école de musique de Lausanne, site de Sion
- https://www.hemu.ch/en/home
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Australia
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 23
- Last or current school: Colburn School
- https://www.colburnschool.edu/
- Instrument played: He performs on a modern instrument and bow generously loaned by The Colburn School.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024, 2023
- Nationality: USA
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 26
- Last or current school: Yale School of Music
- https://music.yale.edu/
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Japan
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 22
- Last or current school: Yale School of Music
- https://music.yale.edu/
- Diplomas: Bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: USA
- Instrument: Viola
- Age during Academy: 23
- Last or current school: Yale School of Music
- https://music.yale.edu/
- Diplomas: Bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: France
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 22
- Last or current school: CNSMDP - Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
- https://www.conservatoiredeparis.fr/en
- Instrument played: Plays a cello signed Frank Ravatin, kindly loaned by the El Pasito Association.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Hungary
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 17
- Last or current school: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- https://www.mdw.ac.at/
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: United Kingdom
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 19
- Last or current school: Royal Academy of Music
- https://www.ram.ac.uk
- Instrument played: Plays a cello by J.F. Wright, Newark, 2023 (1727 Goriller Ex Shapiro Model) and a William Salchow bow thanks to the support of Pei Sian Ng and Pei Jee Ng
- Edition of the Academy: 2024, 2023, 2022
- Nationality: France
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 25
- Last or current school: Haute école de musique de Genève, joined the Académie de l’Opéra National de Paris in September 2022.
- https://www.hesge.ch/hem
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Israel
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 20
- Last or current school: Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
- https://en-arts.tau.ac.il/Music
- Edition of the Academy: 2024, 2023
- Nationality: Germany
- Instrument: Cello
- Age during Academy: 17
- Last or current school: Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre - Leipzig
- https://www.hmt-leipzig.de/en/home/hochschule
- First prize of the International Anna Kull Competition for Cello in Graz in 2020 as the youngest contestant in his age group. In 2022 first prize of his age group at the International Gustav-Mahler Cello Competition.
- Edition of the Academy: 2024
- Nationality: Ukraine, Finland, Switzerland, Belarus
- Age during Academy: 20, 20, 27, 27
- Last or current school: FHNW, Music Academy of Basel
- https://www.fhnw.ch/en/about-fhnw/schools/music
