The Russian-born violinist receives €20,000, and is eligible to participate in the invite-only Classic Violin Olympus International Competition in Dubai in April 2025
The London Classic Violin Competition ran from 26–30 August at the Royal College of Music in London, UK, as part of the larger Six Ways to Classic Violin Olympus initiative. The first prize of €20,000 was awarded to Russian-born violinist Boris Brovtsyn, 47, the second prize of €10,000 to Chinese violinist Jinzhu Li, 17, and the third prize of €5,000 to US–Korean violinist Elly Suh, 34.
As the top two ranking participants of the London competition, Brovtsyn and Li will be invited to compete further in the Classic Violin Olympus International Competition in April 2025 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, vying for the €200,000 grand prize.
Brovtsyn is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Russia and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) in London, UK, studying with Maya Glezarova and David Takeno. He was a laureate of the 2001 Queen Elisabeth Competition, and won the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in 2002. Brovtsyn currently teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey, UK and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna, Austria, having previously held a professorship at GSMD from 2010-2016. Brovtsyn has performed with ensembles including the London and Warsaw Philharmonics, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and the Royal Danish Orchestra, as well as the BBC Philharmonic, Symphony and Scottish Symphony orchestras. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with musicians including Mischa Maisky, Gidon Kremer, Clemens Hagen, Gary Hoffman and Janine Jansen, among others. Jansen’s 2013 album of Schubert and Schoenberg, on which Brovtysn appears as an ensemble member, won an ECHO Klassik Award.
The jury of the London Classic Violin Competition comprised Roland Daugareil, Yamen Saadi, Weidong Tong and Robin Wilson, and was chaired by artistic director Pavel Vernikov.
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