Ukrainian violinist Bohdan Luts has won the €60,000 first prize
The final round of the Wieniawski International Violin Competition took place on 22 October at the Adam Mickiewicz University Auditorium in Poznań, Poland. The violinists each performed a violin concerto by Wieniawski with the Poznań Philharmonic and conductor Łukasz Borowicz.
Ukrainian violinist Bohdan Luts took home first prize, which includes a €60,000 cash prize as well as international concert and tour engagements. Chinese violinist Jinzhu Li received the €30,000 second prize while South Korean violinist SooBeen Lee was awarded the €15,000 third prize. Second and third prizes also include concert engagements.
The three other finalists, Jooha Choi, Anna Im and Meng Zou, all received €5,000 each.
Luts is currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Boris Kuschnir. He was also a student at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland where he studied with Oleg Kaskiv, Guillaume Chilemme and Renaud Capuçon, and regularly participated in masterclasses with Gábor Takács-Nagy, Pinchas Zukerman and Ivan Vukčević, among others.
Other competition success includes first prizes at the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition and the Carl Nielsen International Competition. He has performed at international festivals and concerts across Europe, including in Switzerland, Finland, France and Italy. As a soloist, he has played with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, among others.
The 2027 competition jury was led by Bartłomiej Nizioł and comprised Andrea Obiso, Liviu Prunaru, Gerhard Schulz, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Akiko Suwanai, Agata Szymczewska, Vera Tsu Weiling, Sungsic Yang and Nancy Zhou.
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