ELIAS DAVID MONCADO

21-year-old German violinist Elias David Moncado is the youngest ever winner of the 1st grand prize as well as 10 special prizes at the 2019 International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition in Poland. Additionally, he was the youngest prizewinner at the 2019 International Sendai Violin Competition Japan and at the 2017 Concours International de l’Orchestre Philharmonique of Morocco, and previously was a prizewinner at the International Louis Spohr and International Andrea Postacchini Violin Competitions. At the age of 10 he was the youngest ever winner of the Europäischer Hoffnungspreis in the history of the European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa. At the age of 12, he made his debut at the Berliner Philharmonie with the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin. As a soloist he has performed with numerous orchestras like Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, hr-Symphonieorchester, Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg and Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra Japan.

He was a soloist at numerous festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Kissinger Musiksommer. His previous teachers include Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Prof. Zakhar Bron. He is currently studying at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Pierre Amoyal.

He plays a violin by Giambattista Rogeri of Brescia (around 1700) from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 3, Op. 27

SESSION 2

L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 7 in C minor. Op. 30, No. 2
C. SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
F. KREISLER: Liebesleid

SEMI-FINALS

KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
C. DEBUSSY: Sonata in G minor, L. 140
S. PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493

GRAND FINAL

P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35