Biographies

Students selected for the 2024 edition

Alphabetical order per instrument - Nationality as a country - Last school

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Naama BEN ZAKEN

Naama BEN ZAKEN

  • 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.
Elizaveta BRAKHMAN

Elizaveta BRAKHMAN

  • 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/
Sofija DODIG

Sofija DODIG

  • 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/
Helene FREYTAG

Helene FREYTAG

  • 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).
Alexander GOLDBERG

Alexander GOLDBERG

Andrew SAMARASEKARA

Andrew SAMARASEKARA

  • 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.
Varvara VASYLIEVA

Varvara VASYLIEVA

  • 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)
Mila GAFNER

Mila GAFNER

  • 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.
Theresa HOREJSI

Theresa HOŘEJŠÍ

  • 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
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