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Singapore International Violin Competition
Next edition
No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.
Overview
Triennial competition launched in 2014 and hosted by the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory. Candidates are pre-selected from recordings by blind listening, then compete in live rounds that include solo, recital, chamber music and concerto stages and a commissioned work.
- Organiser
- Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore
- Instruments
- Violin
- Category
- Solo violin
- Age limits
- Under 30 at the start of the competition year
Rules & repertoire
Registration & fee
Applications with pre-selection recordings; candidates receive a SGD 500 airfare subsidy and accommodation while competing.
Rounds & time limits
- Pre-selection: recordings, blind listening
- First Round: solo violin and violin-piano works
- Semi-Final: full recital including the commissioned work
- Final: chamber music, six finalists
- Grand Final: concerto, top three
Repertoire
Pre-selection: one movement from a Bach solo sonata (BWV 1001, 1003 or 1005), two Paganini caprices, and the slow movement of a Mozart concerto (K. 207, 211, 216, 218 or 219).
Jury & prizes
Jury
- Qian Zhou (artistic director, chair)
- Shmuel Ashkenasi
- Augustin Dumay
- Koichiro Harada
- Ida Kavafian
- Barnabas Kelemen
- Itzhak Rashkovsky
- Paul Roczek
- Pavel Vernikov
- Lina Yu
Prizes
- 1st: US$50,000
- 2nd: US$25,000
- 3rd: US$15,000
- 4th: US$6,000
- 5th: US$5,000
- 6th: US$4,000
- Concert engagements and violin loans from the Rin Collection
Past editions
- 2026 — Singapore source
1st: Georgii Moroz; 2nd: Michael Germer; 3rd: Zou Meng; 4th: Karisa Chiu; 5th: Songha Choi; 6th: Qingzhu Weng - 2022 — Singapore source
1st: Dmytro Udovychenko; 2nd: Anna Agafia Egholm; 3rd: Angela Sin Ying Chan; 4th: Nathan Meltzer; 5th: Tianyou Ma; 6th: Yiying Jiang - 2018 — Singapore source
1st: Sergei Dogadin; 2nd: Chisa Kitagawa; 3rd: Oleksandr Korniev; 4th: Laurel Gagnon; 5th: Lisa Yasuda; 6th: Xiaoxuan Shi - 2015 — Singapore source
1st: Tseng Yu-Chien; 2nd: Richard Lin; 3rd: Sirena Huang; 4th: Alexandra Conunova; 5th: Lim Hyun Jae; 6th: Fedor Rudin
Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source