The jubilee 60th edition of the competition brought exceptionally strong international competition and a remarkably high artistic level across all categories.
Tobiáš Balkovský began studying cello at the age of six with Marek Novák of the Czech Philharmonic.
Sebastian Cretan was born in 2010 into a Czech-Romanian musical family. He began playing piano at the age of four and added trombone at the age of nine.
Valentýna Ibriqi began playing the piano at the age of eight and quickly attracted attention thanks to her exceptional competition results.
Fourteen-year-old violinist Lin Tokura, born in Japan and raised in the United States, is currently studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School in the United Kingdom.
Alina Lamziuk began studying the oboe in 2019 at the age of nine at the State Music Lyceum in Kharkiv.
Fourteen-year-old cellist Daniel Wang is a rising talent praised by critics as an artist whose level of maturity far exceeds his age.
Vojtěch Stejskal was born into an artistic family in Prague in 2009. He has devoted himself to music since the age of five.
Elen Virabyan was born in 2010 into a musical family.
