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The finals of the 13th Vaclav Huml International Violin Competition took place on 8 July in Zagreb, Croatia.
The overall winner was Maria Sotriffer of Austria, who was awarded the Zlatko Baloković Prize worth €6,000, supported by Thomastik–Infield, Vienna. Vadym Perig of Ukraine was awarded the €3,500 second prize, supported by the Edwulstrad RMIC SA music shop in Geneva. Jiaqi Li of China won the third prize of €2,500, which was awarded by Milan and Vladimir Čalogović in memory of Eleonora Čalogović, née Huml.
Following the initial online selection, the competition rounds took place from 2–8 July and saw 22 international candidates taking part in the first heat. Twelve candidates were selected for the second round and the three finalists performed concertos with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Pavle Zajcev.
A number of special awards were given: two concert dates with the Zagreb Philharmonic and the Zagreb Soloists were won by Maria Sotriffer. A performance at the Milko Kelemen Days Festival in Slatina was won by Ana Labazan Brajša of Croatia and Tao-Yuan Hsiao of Taiwan. The award for the best performance of a work by J.S. Bach and an Accord case was won by Ugnė Liepa Žuklytė of Lithuania. The best performance of the mandatory piece, Music for Solo Violin by Milko Kelemen, was won by Tao-Yuan Hsiao of Taiwan.
The international jury comprised chairman Pavel Vernikov, Eduard Wulfson, Goran Končar, Anđelko Krpan, Leonid Sorokow, Kimiko Nakazawa and Elly Suh.
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