Robert Lakatos wins 12th Sarasate competition
Robert Lakatos, an alumnus of the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), has won the twelfth edition of the international Sarasate violin competition in Pamplona, Spain.
The prize, donated by the Government of Navarre, also includes performances with the Navarra Symphony Orchestra, the Cascais e Oeiras Chamber Orchestra, the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Filharmonia Poznanska. As part of a recital at the Madrid Conservatory, Lakatos will also have the opportunity to play the Stradivarius owned by the Conservatory.
The American Angela Wee received 10,000 euros as the second prize winner of the competition, donated by the city of Pamplona.
Born in Novi Sad in 1991, Robert Lakatos studied in his home town with Dejan Mihailovic and at the Zurich University of the Arts with Rudolf Koelman. He was a scholarship holder of the Swiss Lyra Foundation.
