Park Gang Hyeon (Korea). — Photo the organiser

HÀ NỘI — Violinists Ruslan Turuntayev from Kazakhstan and Park Gang-hyeon from South Korea won the Grand Prix at the First Việt Nam International Music Competition for Violin and Chamber Music in Hà Nội yesterday.

Chinese Jiang Zhenyi received first prize and Korean Hong Hyeon took second prize.

Vietnamese Hoàng Hồ Khánh Vân and Russian Peter Fedotove shared the third prize.

Vân is one of Việt Nam’s violin talents. At the age of 12, she won first prize at the third ASEAN International Concerto Competition in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2009.

The first prize winner Park was also named the Best Performer of Mozart sonata, while the second prize winner Jiang is the Best Youngest Contestant in the Violin Category.

The Việt Nam Musicians Association gives the Best Performance of Vietnamese Music to Russian Feodor Ludevig.

The association also presents The Hope Star to Korean-American Kyung Ah-oh and Japanese Kanon Aoki.

Aoki won the prize for recital at the Concert Hall of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. The prize is chosen by Hungarian judge Vilmos Szabadi.

In the category of chamber music, Grand Prix goes to Korean Comme Toi Piano Duo and the ensemble of Canada, Poland, US and Việt Nam musicians - Ulysses Quartet & Trung.

Two Vietnamese ensembles Amici Quartet and L’ Espoir Trio took second prize.

The competition was held by the Việt Nam National Academy of Music with the participation of 64 contestants from 19 countries including 29 violinists and 11 chamber groups.

The competition's judging board of 16 includes Russian violinist and People’s Artist Viktor Tretyakov. He won the first prize at the Tchaikovsky Music Competition in 1966 and many other awards such as Global Artist by UNESCO. —VNS