At the end of this month, 12 of the best violinist in the world will fight for the title of the winner of the classic international competition on the Olympus violin.
The competition will take place from April 22 to 28, 2025 at the Jumeirah Zabeeel Saray Hotel in Dubai and will be broadcast by EURONEWS through a cult program.
Here are five important things that you need to know about competition:
1. How are the 12 best violinist?
12 finalists were selected as a result of a strict process. Candidates from around the world were selected in the process of strict selection in six stages. The preliminary stages took place in Tokyo, Vienna, New York, London, Rome and Dubai, with jury, who evaluated candidates of all ages and nationalities. In this process, every five jury chose the two best competitors.
Of those who will work in Dubai at the end of this month, three competitors from China: Dzhinzhu, Rufeng Lin and Xiao Van. Two American competitors, Carisa Chiu and Ellie Choi, are also involved.
The rest represent their relevant peoples individually: Andrei Baranov (Switzerland), Boris Brovtsin (Austria), Yuki Hirano (Japan), Lorenz Carls (Sweden/Austria), Hike Kazazin (Armenia), Marius Patra (Poland) and Sound Yun (South Korea).
2. What is put on the card?
Once it was a financially profitable trip to 12 finalists. Each of the two best competitors of the preliminary stages received a prize of 35,000 euros for its original work.
Now these finalists will play in the classic finale of the Violin Olympus. The first prize is 200,000 euros, and 11 seconds are classified by not insignificant 10,000 euros. In total, competitions this year rise in competitions to about 310,000 euros. The winner will also receive the Stradivari violin made by Fabio Piagentini.
Although the money is impressive, the prestige of the competition in the competition is the true goal of the violinist. The performance of the jury of world famous musicians and potential mentors is a fundamental opportunity for young artists.
3. What are you going to do?
Each violinist will conduct a program of six parts designed to check all the violinist abilities.
At these stages, violinists will act on stage with an impressive group of musicians, including the Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra and the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra.
Your first test will be a performance along with a symphonic orchestra. This task is divided into two parts. Firstly, they should play one of the five famous concerts for the violin for working with the orchestra: Op. 61 from Beethoven, Op. 77 Brahms, op. 35 from Tchaikovsky, op. 47 Sibelius, or Op. 77 No. 1 Shostakovich.
For the second part of the call, they should play the role of a concert and send an orchestra to one of the following works: “Ein Hellenlben” from Bach “Erbarm Dich”; “Mass” Beethoven;
After that, they will go to the second part of their dough. This is divided into four sections.
Firstly, they should play a triple concert from Beethoven for a violin, cello and piano with an orchestra, acting with the world famous soloists: Alexander Chausian on cello or Itamar Golan on the piano.
Then they can choose from three concerts from the resident of the composer of the competition Alexy Shor. Finally, they are given the opportunity to encourage solo performance in their choice before participating in the session of questions and answers with the jury panel.
4. How will this be evaluated?
The fate of 12 finalists will be solved by the jury consisting of 25 elements. All were chosen by the fingers of their excellent pedigree as one of the most important conductors in the world, all the directed orchestras, festivals and well -known concerts.
The jury chaired by Pavel Vernikov. The artistic director of the competition, the Ukrainian violinist, is the winner of the international competition in Munich and one of the most respected classical musicians over the past 20 years.
Speaking with Euronews, he said that the selection process is very important: this is not a sports competition. We are looking for someone who can convince the audience and the jury that he is a musician. We do not choose athletes, we are looking for real artists, and this program will allow us to see how universal they are, and if they have something to say with the music that they interpret.
5. Why is this competition so important?
The classic violin Olympus was founded seven years ago by Konstantin Ishkhanov as “classic strings”, trying to discover the most talented young musicians of our time. Since the first publication in Riga in 2018, they headed the competition of the competition thanks to their means from innovative awards and their devotion to musical art.
Like Riga’s total fund of 40,000 euros, this year 310,000 euros increased, the event also grew in classical respect for the world, and more and more young musicians who fought for a place in the final.
Thanks to the step in 2022, the classic violin Olympus became one of the most important dates of the calendar of classical music, attracting the jury of the world class and the greatest talents of the future.