Vera Weiling Tsu

China/ JURY

Vera Tsu Weiling, renowned violinist and educator, Tenued Professor of Hong Kong Chinese University (Shenzhen) Conservatory, Professor and Doctor’s program advisor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Vice President of Convocation for the Founding of the String Music Society of China Musicians' Association and China Federation of Chamber Musician, the Co-Chairman of the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition as well as Chairman of Violin Jury Harbin International Music Competition. Tsu has been invited to sit on the jury of many prestigious competitions worldwide including the Queen Elizabeth Competition of Belgium (in 2009 and 2012), Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition Poznan (in 2011 and 2016), Menuhin Competition, Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition, Montreal International Musical Competition and the remarkable XV Tchaikovsky Violin Competition Moscow in 2015. By far, Tsu is the only Chinese violinist who has frequently served at most of the highest level international competitions. As an educator, Tsu organized and attended Master Classes and seminars in the United States, Japan, Italy, Argentina, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout China. Her students won many prizes and gained great reputation in the international competitions. As a soloist, Tsu has also been performing on stages with both domestic and international orchestras including WDR Sinfonieorchester Koeln, the New York City Symphony, the Orchestra de Cannes, the Budapest Radio Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China National Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Tsu’s 20th anniversary of teaching concert was successfully held at the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall on March 8th, 2021. Born in Shanghai, Tsu got in the Central Conservatory in Beijing in 1977. During the distinguished international violin master Isaac Stern’s the first visit to China in 1979, as a sophomore, Tsu performed for Mr. Stern and was featured in the overwhelming Oscar-winning documentary From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. Vera Tsu Weiling went to the USA in 1980, where she continued her study with Dorothy DeLay and Rafael Bronstein, who was then the only living disciple of violin ancestor Leopold Auer. She graduated from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music with Master Degrees. Tsu was the First Associated Concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 1993 to 2000. Since Tsu was back in China in 2000, she has been active in the front line of performance and education.

Bob Lord

USA/ JURY/

Dora Schwarzberg

Israel/USA/ JURY/

Gianluca Marcianò

Italy/ JURY/

Péter Csaba

France/ JURY

Péter Csaba was from 2012 the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor, and is also currently the principal guest of the MÁV Symphony Orchestra Budapest (Hungary), and prior to that, he was the artistic director and principal conductor of the Besançon Symphony Orchestra and of the “Musica Vitae” Chamber Orchestra in Sweden. He served also as a director of the Kuhmo Chamber music festival in Finland and of the Lapland Chamber music festival in Sweden. As a pedagogue he has held the Orchestra Chair at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon from 1996 to 2018.   Currently he is since 2002 the Artistic Director of the "Santander Encounter of Music and Academy" in Spain. He has toured the world as both as a violinist and as a conductor, and has worked with the symphony orchestras of Berlin, Warsaw and Singapore, with the Japan Philharmonic, and both National symphony orchestra and National Opera Orchestra in Lyon (France), among many others. He has also given concerts and performed with many of the most acclaimed artists and composers of our time.  Under his batton played many soloists such as Pierre Fournier, Natalia Gutman, Zoltan Kocsis, Kristyan Zimmerman, Menahem Pressler, Teresa Berganza, and worked together with many composers like Alfred Schnittke, Krzystof Penderecki, Péter Ötvös, Sofia Gubaidulina, John Corigliano. In 2001 he was elected member of the Royal Academy of Sweden. In 2017 he received the most important award of the French Republic, being the title of "Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur", and the same year he became also "Knight of the White Rose of Finland". In 2021 he received the Medal of Honour of the Albéniz Foundation in Spain, and in 2023 he was awarded by Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain the "Medal of Honour" from the Reina Sofia School of Music in Madrid.

Eduard Tadevosyan

Armenia/ CHAIRMAN/

Zohrab Tadevosyan

Spain/ JURY/