Competition successes of the violin class of Prof. Christoph Schickedanz

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Violinist Ziling Guo, class of Prof. Christoph Schickedanz, won this year's 42nd Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition in Gorizia, Italy, with prize money of €15,000.

In 2022 and 2023, Ziling won a total of 8 prizes at international competitions: with her duo partner Tianjiao Hong, she won 2 second and 2 first prizes in Germany, Austria, Italy and Japan, as well as first prizes as a soloist at international competitions in Germany (Hammelburg), Austria (Vienna), Great Britain (Birmingham) and now in Italy.
This year's Rodolfo Lipizer competition was held in three rounds from 8 to 17 September. Out of 41 candidates from 17 countries, six reached the final, where Ziling impressed the jury with her interpretation of the violin concerto by Hamburg composer Johannes Brahms and the third movement of Samuel Barber's violin concerto. In addition to the 1st prize, she was also awarded the special prize for the best sonata/duo interpretation.
In addition to the prize money, Ziling also received a violin made at the Antonio Stradivari violin making school in Cremona. He has also already received invitations from various concert organizers for the coming concert season.

Vita
Bio Ziling Guo was born in China in January 1996. She graduated from Shanghai Conservatory High School: solo violin with Prof. Qing Zheng, chamber music with Prof. Shuting Wu.
She has been studying at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama with Prof. Christoph Schickedanz since 2015. She achieved her Bachelor's and Master's degrees with top marks.
2019 Start of Master's chamber music studies as a duo with pianist Tianjiao Hong with Prof. Christoph Schickedanz. 2021 Start of the concert exam.
2022 Completion of the master's degree in chamber music with Prof. Schickedanz with the duo Artemis with pianist Tianjiao Hong.

Awards at international competitions including with the Duo Artemis Ziling Guo, violin and Tianjiao Hong, piano.
2021 Semi-finalists in the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition.
2022 - Luigi Cerritelli International Music Competition 2nd prize.
- Tokyo Young Musician Competition 2nd prize.
- Beethoven Young Musician Competition Vienna 1st prize.
- Medici International Music Competition 1st prize.

As a soloist 2023 1st prize and special prize for the best sonata/duo interpretation at the 42nd International Violin Competition "Premio Rodolfo Lipizer"
1st prize and special prize for the best interpretation of a classical concerto movement at the violin competition of the 3rd International Violin Academy Hammelburg
1st prize at the Birmingham International Music Competition. 1st prize at the Birmingham International Music Competition
1st prize International Mozart Competition Vienna 1st prize.
Chamber music and solo appearances (selection):
2017 Bach Violin Concerto in D minor BWV 1052a in Hamburg,
2019 NDR live broadcast "Podium der Jungen" Hanover,
2020 Selection for Yehudi Menuhin's "Live Music Now" in Hamburg.
2022 Italian debut with Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the MasterOrchestra Brescia.
CD recording for the cpo label: First recording of Arnold Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. Co-concertmaster of the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn in the 2022 season.

In addition, the two bachelor students Mio Sasaki from Japan and Yunhe Tang from China won first prize and the audience prize at the inaugural Saarbrücken International Violin Competition from Prof. Christoph Schickedanz's violin class.

The competition was held in three rounds from August 20-24. The final was held in the large broadcasting hall of Saarländischer Rundfunk and was accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of the Greater Region. In addition to Henryk Wieniawski's Legend as the obligatory compulsory piece, the finalists presented another violin concerto with string orchestra accompaniment of their choice. Mio Sasaki performed the violin concerto in D minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Yunhe Tang the violin concerto in E flat major by Johann Friedrich Reichardt.
In addition to the €4,000 prize, the first prize winner will be invited by Saarländischer Rundfunk to perform in a chamber music production and has also received various concert engagements for recital appearances in Saarland.

Vita:

Mio Sasaki was born in Osaka and has been studying with Prof. Christoph Schickedanz in Hamburg since 2017. She won first prizes at the Luigi Nono International Music Competition in Italy in both the solo and chamber music categories, at the Swiss International Music Competition and this summer at the Saar International Violin Competition.
Sasaki also won prizes at the Tenerife International Competition, the International Violin Competition in Hammelburg, the Elise Meyer Competition and last year's Premio Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia, Italy.
In 2013, Mio was awarded the Civic Culture Prize of her home town 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 Symphony Orchestra, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Academy of Music, the Bazzini Consort Brescia, the Master Orchestra Verona and the Chamber Orchestra of the Greater Region under the direction of Aram Khacheh, Yuriy Bervetsky, Sergio Baietta, Ulrich Windfuhr and Stefan Bone.
Since August 2023 she has been playing regularly as assistant concertmaster in the Osaka Symphony Orchestra. 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".