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Odesa International Violin Competition
Next edition
No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.
Overview
The Odesa International Violin Competition was founded in Odesa, Ukraine, and in 2025 was held in Monheim am Rhein, Germany, with a final with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra. A preliminary round is judged from video, followed by live first, second and final rounds.
- Organiser
- Odesa International Violin Competition / Odesa National Music Academy
- Instruments
- Violin
- Category
- Solo violin
- Age limits
- Violinists at least 18 and under 31 (2025 edition)
Rules & repertoire
Registration & fee
Online via muvac.com; for 2025 applications opened 1 April 2025 and were due 25 May 2025 with a non-refundable EUR 100 fee.
Rounds & time limits
- Preliminary round (video)
- First round: up to 30 minutes
- Second round: up to 45 minutes
- Final: concerto with orchestra
Repertoire
Preliminary: a Mozart concerto first movement with cadenza and a Paganini caprice. First round (max. 30 min): Bach, Paganini caprice, Ysaÿe solo sonata, Skoryk caprice. Second round (max. 45 min): a 19th/20th-century sonata, a Fichtenholz arrangement and a free work. Final: one concerto from a list (Sibelius, Dvořák, Stankovych No. 2, Brahms, Korngold, Glière, Paganini No. 1) with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (2025 edition).
Jury & prizes
Jury
- Harald Schoneweg (Chair)
- Marc Bouchkov
- Soyoung Yoon
- Andrii Murza
- Mario Hossen
- Aleksey Semenenko
- Rūta Lipinaitytė
- Zohrab Tadevosyan
- Doug Sheldon
- Christiane von Velsen
Prizes
- 1st: EUR 5,000
- 2nd: EUR 3,000
- 3rd: EUR 1,500
- Fichtenholz prize: EUR 500
- Sheldon Artists prize: performance in the 2027 U.S. tour
- Apogee Foundation prize: EUR 500 for the best Ukrainian participant
- Pirastro prize
- Masterclass prizes and an orchestra engagement
Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source