Bohdan Luts, Jinzhu Li and SooBeen Lee take the top three prizes at the competition’s 17th edition in Poznań.
The 17th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition announced its winners following the final in Poznań, Poland, on 22 October. Ukrainian violinist Bohdan Luts took first prize, with Jinzhu Li receiving second prize and SooBeen Lee third.
The three awards carry €60,000, €30,000 and €15,000 respectively. Jooha Choi, Anna Im and Meng Zou received honourable mentions, each worth €5,000.
Another major victory for Luts
For 21-year-old Luts, the result adds to first prizes at the Carl Nielsen International Competition in 2022 and the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition in 2023. At Long-Thibaud, he also received the audience, press jury and French Republican Guard Orchestra prizes.
Born in Lviv in 2004, he studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland with Oleg Kaskiv, Guillaume Chilemme and Renaud Capuçon. He is currently studying with Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.
His competition programme included concertos by Panufnik and Dvořák, followed in the final by Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22.
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