It will be the first edition of the competition since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022
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The World Federation of International Music Competitions (WFIMC) has announced that the Odesa Violin Competition will take place from 17–24 August this year, this time in Monheim, Germany. It will be the first time the competition takes place since the Russian invasion began in February 2022, and the new location is described as a ‘temporary home’.
The competition was founded in 2018 by Ukrainian violinist Andrii Murza in honour of violin pedagogue Peter Stolyarsky and the Odesa violin school. The previous edition was held in May 2021 in Odesa, Ukraine, and its first prize of €3,000 was won by Ukrainian violinist Dmytro Udovychenko.
Finalists in the 2025 edition will be accompanied by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and conductor Oksana Lyniv. This year’s jury comprises Murza, Marc Bouchkov, Soyoung Yoon, Aleksey Semenenko, Mario Hossen, Rūta Lipinaitytė, Zohrab Tadevosyan, Harald Schoneweg and Christiane von Velsen.
‘You need strong international partners, and we are lucky and grateful to Monheimer Kulturwerke and its Intendant Martin Witkowski, who has not only taken the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra into exile at his institution, but now has also shown a great interest into the Odesa Competition,’ said Lyniv. ‘For a competition, you need space- practice rooms, pianos, a hall for the final, and Monheim is the perfect place.’
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