Violinist Inmo Yang, the 26-year-old Korean violinist was recently named the winner of the Sibelius Violin Competition. He was awarded the top prize of €30,000.
In addition, Yang was also awarded an instrument loan of a 1772 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin, loaned by Jane Ng through the Beare’s International Violin Society, as well as a personal mentoring sessions with jury chair Sakari Oramo and violinist Pekka Kuusisto.
He won €2000 for the best performance of Magnus Lindberg’s commissioned work Caprice, awarded by the Sibelius family, as well as a product prize sponsored by Finnish loudspeaker manufacturer Genelec Oy and an NFT trophy by Yle Innovations.
Yang is a former winner of the 54th International Violin Competition ’Premio Paganini’ in Genoa, Italy in 2015.
Yang studied with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory of Music and is currently based in Berlin, where he is pursuing a master’s degree under Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik ’Hanns Eisler’.
We will surely hear more of Mr. Yang’s future successes.
Here is Mr. Yang to play the Sibelius concerto for you:
