Dmitry Smirnov wins Varga competition 2015
Russian violinist Dmitry Smirnov has won this year's Concours international de violon Tibor Varga 2015 in Sion. The Korean Ji Won Song came second and the German Yuliia Van third.
Smirnov was also awarded the audience prize. The Russian won over the jury and audience with his renditions of the tricky composition "Le mani del violonista" by Hugues Dufourt and the second violin concerto by Dimitri Shostakovitch.
Yuliia Van also received the Young Jurors Award. Dmitry Smirnov also received the Best Compulsory Piece Award. The jury was made up of Enzo Restagno (President), Hugues Dufourt, Dong-Suk Kang, Tsugio Tokunaga, Raimund Trenkler (replacing Natalia Gutman, who had to cancel for health reasons), Pavel Vernikov and Milan Vitek.
Born in St. Petersburg in 1994, Dmitry Smirnov is a student of Elena Zajtseva at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in his native city. He has been studying at the Lausanne Academy of Music since September 2011. He made his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall in 2007.
