The Jury
Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Jury 2021
The Jury for the 2021 competition will be comprised of :
- Salvatore Accardo, President, Italy
- Kolja Blacher, Germany
- Friedemann Eichhorn, Germany
- Koichiro Harada, Japan
- Yuzoko Horigome, Belgium – Japon
- Ida Kavafian, USA
- Pavel Vernikov, Ukraine-Israël
A pianist and a cellist will join the jury for the final and will play with the finalists as a part of the trio for chamber music component.
- Konstantin Lifschitz, Russia
- Marc Coppey, France
The preselection Jury will be comprised of:
- Salvatore Accardo, Italy
- Gyula Stuller, Hungary
- Pavel Vernikov, Ukraine-Israël
Pianist 2021
Tibor Varga Violin Competition Jury 2019
The Jury for the 2019 competition will be comprised of :
- Georges Starobinski, Chairman, Switzerland
- Pavel Vernikov, Ukraine-Israël
- Qian Zhou, Singapore
- Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Poland
- David Takeno, Japan
- Gilbert Varga, Switzerland
- Eva Zurbrügg, Switzerland
A pianist and a cellist will join the jury for the final and will play with the finalists as a part of the trio for chamber music component.
- Juan Carlos Garvayo, Spain
- Antonio Meneses, Brazil
Biographies for all Jury members will be available soon.
Youth Jury
Pianists 2019
Tibor Varga Violin Competition Jury 2017
- Enzo Restagno, President
- Lera Auerbach
- Miguel Da Silva
- Esther Hoppe
- Dong-suk Kang
- Silvia Marcovici
- Pavel Vernikov
Tibor Varga Violin Compeition Youth Jury 2017
- Charlotte Bernard
- Chloé Fournier
- Claire Nendaz
- Ryan Naesem
- Regina Beytrison
The Youth Jury was mentored by cellist Mihail Hakhnazaryan, and was independent fom the Compeition Jury. 
Tibor Varga Violin Competition Jury 2015
- M. Enzo Restagno, Président
- Raimund Trenkler
- Dong-Suk Kang
- Tsugio Tokunaga
- Hugues Dufourt
- Pavel Vernikov
- Milan Vitek
Tibor Varga Violin Competition Jury 2013
- M. Enzo Restagno, Président
- Natalia Gutman
- Pavel Vernikov
- Dong-Suk Kang
- Augustin Dumay
- Milan Vitek
- Guo Wenjing
