Veriko Tchumburidze Wins First Prize in the 2016 Wieniawski International Violin Competition

By Laurie Niles: Prize winners were announced Saturday in the 2016 Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poznan, Poland. They are:

• First Prize (€30,000): Veriko Tchumburidze, 20, of Georgia/Turkey
• Second Prize (€20,000): Bomsori Kim, 25, of South Korea
• Second Prize (€20,000): Seiji Okamoto, 22, of Japan
• Fourth Prize (€10,000): Luke Hsu, 26, of the United States
• Fifth Prize (€10,000): Richard Lin, 25, of Taiwan/United States
• Sixth Prize (€5,000): Maria Wloszczowska, 25, of Poland
• Seventh Prize (€5,000): Ryosuke Suho, 21, of Japan

Here is Veriko Tchumburidze's prize-winning performance of Henryk Wieniawski's Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Op. 22, with the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra. She plays on a 1756 Giambattista Guadagnini violin. (Find other performances here.) Jury members are Maxim Vengerov (Chair), Vera Tsu Wei-Ling, Mayumi Seiler, Marios Papadopoulos, Konstanty Andrzej Kulka, Robert Kabara, Ilya Gringolts, Bartosz Bryla, Zakhar Bron, Alena Baeva, Kyoko Takezawa, Song-Suk Kang, Akiko Tatsumi, Peter Zazofsky and Krzysztof Penderecki.