Ria Honda
United States / Japan, 26
Ria Honda is a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School and holds degrees from Columbia University and Yale University. She is a recipient of the 2022 Rohm Music Foundation Scholarship Award and the Fourth Prize winner at the Klein International String Competition. She has recently made appearances at Music at Menlo’s International Program and Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Festival and was concertmaster of the 2023 New York String Orchestra Seminar.
Teachers:
Laurie Smukler 2025 – present
Don Weilerstein 2025 – present
Soovin Kim 2023 – 2025
Li Lin 2018 – 2023
Jan Sloman 2010 – 2018
Preliminaries
Sonata in C major, K. 303 — W. A. Mozart
Caprice Nos. 1 and 4, Op. 1 — N. Paganini
Sonata No. 5 in G major — E. Ysaÿe
Bess, You is My Woman Now — G. Gershwin (arr. J. Heifetz)
Semi-Finals
Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96 — L. van Beethoven
Rhapsody No. 3 for Solo Violin — Jessie Montgomery
Sonata No. 2, Sz. 76 — B. Bartók
Rondo in B minor, Op. 70 — F. Schubert
Classical Finals
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 — W. A. Mozart
La Gitana — F. Kreisler (orch. J. Kuusisto)
Finals
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 — J. Sibelius
