Sophie Wang
Taiwan, 26
Since her debut at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden at age 10, Sophie Wang has performed internationally as a soloist at Konzerthaus Berlin and Tonhalle Zurich, with leading orchestras including Staatskapelle Weimar, National Symphony Orchestra Taiwan, Duisburg Philharmonic, and Southwest German Philharmonic. She has since won First Prizes at the Louis Spohr and Andrea Postacchini violin competitions, and is a prizewinner of the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Valsesia Musica Competition, and Carl Flesch Prize. She performs on a Camillus Camilli violin on generous loan from the CHIMEI Foundation Taiwan.
Teachers:
Jiyoon Lee 2024 – 2026
Ning Feng 2018 – 2023
Preliminaries
Sonata in E minor, K. 304 — W. A. Mozart
Caprice Nos. 4 and 17, Op. 1 — N. Paganini
Sonata No. 3 in D minor — E. Ysaÿe
Beau soir — C. Debussy (arr. J. Heifetz)
Semi-Finals
Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 — L. van Beethoven
Rhapsody No. 3 for Solo Violin — Jessie Montgomery
Phantasy, Op. 47 — A. Schoenberg
Sonata in A major — C. Franck
Classical Finals
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 — W. A. Mozart
Liebesleid — F. Kreisler (orch. J. Kuusisto)
Finals
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 — J. Brahms
