RUIFENG LIN

Ruifeng Lin is currently studying with China’s famous violinist and educator Vera Tsu Weiling. He serves as the concert master of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra, as well as the New-classical Chamber Orchestra. In 2012, he was admitted to the High School Attached to Shanghai Conservatory of Music where he studied under Professor Zhou Mingen.

Lin has won numerous awards, to name a few: In 2014 he won the first place in the 4th International Violin Competition in Hong Kong; In 2015, he won the first prize of the 11th China National Violin Youth Competition and the Chinese Works Performance Award; during 2016-17, he held a solo recital under the program ‘Sounds to Fly’ of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music; in 2017 he won the fourth place in the Youth Professional Group of the 1st International Violin Competition of Shlomo Mintz; In 2019 he was selected into the ‘Dengfeng Talent’ program of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and in the same year he won the ‘Golden Bell’ violin competition.In October 2020, he was awarded the "Young Musician Award" at the 23rd Beijing International Music Festival.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 4, Op. 27

SESSION 2

L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24
F. KREISLER: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2
N. MILSTEIN: Paganiniana for Violin Solo

SEMI-FINALS

M. RAVEL: Sonata in G major
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
H.W. ERNST: Etude No. 6 in G Major, “Die letze rose”

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

GRAND FINAL

F. MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64