Participants announced for the 2022 Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition

The International Violin Competition, Kloster Schöntal will take place from 26 August to 4 September in Kloster Schöntal, Germany.  

37 participants will compete in three different categories: under 14s, 15 to 17-year-olds and 18 to 21-year-olds, with the chance to win up to €24,000. The Reinhold Würth Promotion Prize for further education in music, worth €5,000, is also up for grabs, as well as a performance with the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra. 

A jury consisting of international violinists Rebekka Hartmann, Paul Roczek, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, and artistic director of the competition Petru Munteanu selected the following 37 violinists.  

Under 14s category:  

• Amina Akhmetzhanova 

• Philipp Chernomor 

• Yu Wa Ocean Chow 

• Mathilda Dendorfer 

• Shang.En Hsieh 

• Sebastian Manning 

• Lois Muntean 

• Juan Jose Pena Aguirre 

• Vasilisa Sokolova 

• Till Stümke 

• Yadan Zheng 

 15 to 17-year-old:  

• Moë Dierstein 

• Jialin Ding 

• Jennifer Gheorghita 

• Isabell Karlsson 

• Alexaander Kulitskiy 

• Anne Sophie Luong 

• Tareq Matar 

• Tokuji Miyasaka 

• Ryota Nakamura 

• Jiyu Oh 

• Isabelle Raviol 

• Sofija Vasecka 

• Mingnan Mue 

18 to 21-year-old:  

• Pijus Česaitis 

• Joshua Galasse 

• Pauline Hoffmann 

• Sara Ispas 

• Céleste Klingelschmitt 

• Angi Lai 

• Aijia Li 

• Elena Meyer 

• Veronika Rädler 

• Mia Ruubel 

• Alberto Sanz Rivera 

• Katharina Strepp 

• Ashley Tsai 

Past winners of the competition include Yury Revich, Ziyu He, InMo Yang, Sarah Christian, Igor Pikayzen, Alexandra Conunova, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Rennosuke Fukuda, and Ioana Christina Goicea.