The jubilee 60th edition of the competition brought exceptionally strong international competition and a remarkably high artistic level across all categories.
Alex Xuyao Bai began his music career at the age of five and is currently studying the piano under the expert guidance of Florian Koltun and Xin Wang.
Tobiáš Balkovský learnt the violoncello under Marek Novák of the Czech Philharmonic from the age of six.
Sebastian Cretan was born into a Czech-Romanian musical family in 2010. He has played the piano since the age of four and added the trombone at the age of nine.
Valentýna Ibriqi has been playing the piano under Ellina Belčiková since the age of eight and she quickly drew attention to herself with a number of exceptional results.
The fourteen-year-old violinist Lin Tokura, who was born in Japan and grew up in the USA, is currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Great Britain.
Alina Lamziuk started playing the oboe at the State Music Lyceum in Kharkov in 2019 as a nine-year-old.
Fourteen-year-old violoncellist Daniel Wang is a promising talent, whom critics have labelled an artist with a level of maturity beyond his years.
Vojtěch Stejskal was born into an artistic family in Prague in 2009.
