Main Category

1st Laureate
Yoonshin Song of Korea: 1st Laureate in 2007 competition

Yoonshin Song (the 1st price winner of the 1st Stradivarius International Violin Competition), a 25 year-old violinist, has recently won the Second Prize in the 25th Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy. At the same time she was appointed as a winner of the Special Prize for the best performance of a Paganini Caprice. She accomplished her Master's Degree in Violin Performance and currently started a Graduate Diploma Program at the New England Conservatory. 


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2nd Laureate
Andrej Power of Sweden: 2nd Laureate in 2007 competition

Andrej Power (2nd prize winner of the 1st Stradivarius International Violin Competition) was born on the 21st of January 1988. New Years day 1992 he began to play the violin, at the age of 3. Soon he began to play concerts with orchestras and appeared in different television shows in Sweden.  He played his first concert with a chamber orchestra when he was 7 years old, performing the Bach A-minor concerto. Three years later he played Wieniawski’s concerto no. 2 with a symphony orchestra. Andrej went to his first competition, “Berlinske Tidende” held in Copenhagen, when he was 10 years old. There he won 1st prize and the grand prize as the talent of the year.

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3rd Laureate
Sharon Park of the USA: 3rd Laureate in 2007 competition

Sharon Park (3rd price winner of the 1st Stradivarius International Violin Competition) began studying the violin at the young age of 4 and won her first competition at 5 years old. Recently, she was invited to participate in the 2006 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition in Bulogne-sur-Mer, France. She performed the Shostakovich Quartet No.14 in F# Major as part of the Shostakovich Quartets cycle in Jordan Hall, Boston MA. She placed first in the prestigious Los Angeles Philharmonic Bronislaw Kaper Awards Competition, placed third in the triennial Johansen International String Competition, was the grand prize winner of the International Young Artist Peninsula Music Festival Competition, received Honorable Mention in the Pasadena Instrumental Competition and the Edith Knox Performance Competition. Sharon was named Emerging Young Artist Award Recipient 2004 $20,000 Award in Music and earlier that year, won a level II ARTS award in music in the National Foundation of Advancement in the Arts.

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FOURTH LAUREATE: SUSAN JANG, USA

FIFTH LAUREATE: SO JIN KIM, KOREA

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Youth Category

Mindy Chen
Grand Prize Winner in the Youth Division

Mindy Chen (11 years old, the Grand Price Winner of the 1st Stradivarius International Violin Competition Youth Category), now a fifth grader, was born in California on Feb. 14, 1996. She started playing the violin at the age of 4 and has been studying with Mr. Li Lin, a teacher from the Preparatory Division of San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 6 years. Besides playing the violin, Mindy has many other interests, including reading fantasy books, singing, playing the piano, watching TV and playing computer games. After the competition Ms. Chen has had appearances on the Tonights Show with Jay Leno, been featured in major newspapers, and has an upcoming article in Teen Strings Magazine in May. She also is scheduled to perform the Paganini Violin Concerto in D Major on November 8th, 2008 with the Salt Lake Symphony.

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GRAND PRIZES

1st Grand Prize: Mindy Chen, CA

2nd Grand Prize: Jennifer Liu, CA

3rd Grand Prize: Ashley Thakur, NY

UPPER DIVISION

1st prize: Jennifer Liu, CA

2nd prize: Eric Gratz, CA

3rd prize: Deborah Ferry, UT

Honorable Mention of a Utah Native: David Price

MIDDLE DIVISION

1st prize: Ashley Thakur, NY

2nd prize: Rachel Ostler, FL

3rd prize: Doug Ferry, UT

Honorable Mention of a Utah Native: Megumi Gass

LOWER DIVISION

1st prize: Mindy Chen, CA

2nd prize: Jessie Chen, CA

3rd prize: Hannah Cho, CA

Honorable Mention of a Utah Native: Rebekah Willey