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13-year-old violinist Eduard Kollert, who yesterday won the Junior first prize at the 2016 Novosibirsk International Violin Competition in Russia, performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen at the International ‘Nutcracker’ Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow in 2015.

Kollert is a student of Professor Zakhar Bron, who was chair of this year's Novosibirsk Competition. Fellow Bron student Paloma So shared the Junior first prize with Kollert, while the Senior division was won jointly by two further Bron pupils, Elvin Ganiev and Ellinor Melon, and by Kyoto Ogava.

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