Last week, at the Swiss Youth National Music Competition Entrada 2024, our students clinched an impressive array of prizes, including ten 1st, four 2nd, and five 3rd across violin solo, cello solo, and chamber music categories.

Three days of March, Friday 22nd, Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th, will be remembered by many young Swiss musicians. On these days the Swiss Youth National Music Competition Entrada 2024, the most prestigious annual music contest in Switzerland, took place in various cities across the country. Several students from the Zakhar Bron School of Music participated in it, and we are very proud with the results: ten 1st prizes (with five distinctions), four 2nd and five 3rd prizes secured in different categories. Here are the names of the winners and their teachers:

• 1st prize with distinction: Kimia Corke, joint class of Liana Tretiakova & Anica Vieru (Geneva, solo violin)
• 1st prize with distinction: Felipe Hauser, joint class of Liana Tretiakova & Anica Vieru (Arbon, solo violin)
• 1st prize with distinction: Nikita Koller, joint class of Liana Tretiakova & Anica Vieru (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 1st prize with distinction: Timmy Wang, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 1st prize with distinction: Trio Ardente, classes of Rafael Lipstein, Payam Taghadossi and Liana Tretiakova (Arbon, chamber music)
• 1st prize: Sophie Branson, class of Liana Tretiakova (Burgdorf, solo violin)
• 1st prize: Emanuel Reinhardt, class of Alexander Kuznetsov (Arbon, solo violin)
• 1st prize: Alexandra Taub, class of Liana Tretiakova (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 1st prize: Theofania Archontopoulou, class of Payam Taghadossi (Hünnenberg, solo cello)
• 1st prize: Benjamin Branson, class of Payam Taghadossi (Hünnenberg, solo cello)
• 2nd prize: Katharina Filimonova, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 2nd prize: Tatjana Filimonova, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 2nd prize: Eva Solodovska, class of Liana Tretiakova (Hünnenberg, solo violin)
• 2nd prize: Aurea Wang, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 3rd prize: Elia Berger, class of Alexander Kuznetsov (Arbon, solo violin)
• 3rd prize: Marco Bernardis, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo viola)
• 3rd prize: Kira Okhrimenko, class of Inna Khriplovich (Winterthur, solo violin)
• 3rd prize: Xenia Quintin de Kercadio, class of Alexander Kuznetsov (Arbon, solo violin)
• 3rd prize: Olessia Quintin de Kercadio, class of Alexander Kuznetsov (Arbon, solo violin)

Our heartfelt congratulations to all the prize winners, their loving parents, and their dedicated teachers at the Zakhar Bron School of Music (in the alphabetical order): Inna Khriplovich (violin), Alexander Kuznetsov (violin), Rafael Lipstein (piano), Payam Taghadossi (cello), Liana Tretiakova (violin) and Anica Vieru (violin).

All 1st prize winners from all the cities will meet again in May, where the best of the best will be selected in the competition finale. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for our finalists!!!

P.S. We’d also like to extend our gratitude to Yana Eismann, Pavel Pozdyshev, Or Re’em and Diana Voronetcaia for providing the piano accompaniment to our students at the competition.