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
• -Ida Kavafian, USA
• -Pavel Vernikov, Ukraine – Israel
• -Other internationally renowned violinists whose names will soon be publicised.

 

• -A pianist, whose name will soon be announced, and Marc Coppey, cellist (France), will join the Jury for the Final and will form part of the trio with the finalists for the chamber music round.

 

Full biographies will be available shortly.

• Artistic Director of the Sion Festival
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Pavel Vernikov
• Violin
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Kolja Blacher
• Violin
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Yuzuko Horigome

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.

• President of the Competition Jury
  

  Georges Starobinski
• Artistic Director of the Sion Festival
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Pavel Vernikov
• Violin
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Krzysztof Wegrzyn
• Conductor
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Gilbert Varga
• Violin
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Qian Zhou
• Violin
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  David Takeno
• Cello
  Competition Juror
  

  Antonio Meneses
• Pianist
  Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Juan Carlos Garvayo
• Member of the Competition Jury
  

  Eva Zurbrügg

Youth Jury

• Violin
  

  Ewa Demaugé-Bost
• Youth Jury
  

  Youth Jury

Pianist 2019

• Carl Wolf
• Petra Besa

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