SIQI YU

Siqi Yu was born in 1998 in China. She began her first violin lesson at the age of five and made her debut at seven years old .In 2012, she was admitted into middle school affiliated to Shanghai conservatory of music.

She has participated in many music festivals, such as Matsumoto music festival in Japan and Keshet Eilon music festival. She had masterclasses with violinist Midori Goto, Zhou Qian, Vadim Gluzman, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ilya Kaler, Donald Weilerstein, Lewis Kaplan and conductor Andrew Manze. She is a prizewinner of Lipizer international competition and Hongkong international violin competition. From 2020, she became the young artist in Musethica program, together played chamber music with Avri Levitan, Béatrice Muthelet, Kati Raitinen and Jonathan Brown.

She is studying with Erik Schumann at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and plays on a Ferdinando Gagliano (1775-1780).

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 6, Op. 27

SESSION 2

L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 30 No. 1
F. KREISLER: Schön Rosmarin
H.W. ERNST: Caprice on Schubert’s “Erlkönig”

SEMI-FINALS

S. PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
H. WIENIAWSKI: Fantasia on Themes from ‘Faust’, Op. 20

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

GRAND FINAL

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