Competition success for HfMT violinist

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Mio Sasaki, violin student in Prof. Christoph Schickedanz's class, won second prize (the first prize was not awarded) and the "Inner Wheel" special prize at this year's Valsesia Competition in Varallo/Italy with her interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto.

Vita
Mio Sasaki was born in Osaka and has been studying with Prof. Christoph Schickedanz at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg since 2018.
She has already won first prizes, including in 2022 at the Luigi Nono International Music Competition in Turin in both the solo and chamber music categories and in 2023 at the Swiss International Music Competition and the Saar International Violin Competition.
Sasaki received further prizes in 2019 at the Tenerife International Competition and the International Violin Competition in Hammelburg, as well as at the Elise Meyer Competition and in 2022 at the Premio Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia, Italy.
In 2013, Mio was awarded the Civic Culture Prize of her hometown of Hirakata.
In September 2018, she won the internal competition of the International Mendelssohn Summer Academy in Hamburg and was given the opportunity to perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
Mio Sasaki has performed as a soloist with the Hamburg and Lüneburg Symphony Orchestras, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Academy of Music, the Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi Sondrio, the Bazzini Consort Brescia, the Master Orchestra Verona and the Chamber Orchestra of the Greater Saar Region under the direction of Aram Khacheh, Yuriy Bervetsky, Sergio Baietta, Ernesto Colombo, Ulrich Windfuhr and Stefan Bone.
She has repeatedly been engaged by the Osaka Symphony Orchestra as assistant concertmaster.
From 2018 to 2023, Sasaki was a scholarship holder of the "Tobitate! Study Abroad JAPAN Japanese Ambassador Program". In February 2020, she was accepted into "Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Hamburg". She received further support from the Johannes Brahms Foundation.
She plays on a violin by Antonio Pelizon from around 1820, which was made available to her by master violin maker Christian Erichson.