MATTHEW CHIN    

  HONG KONG

  • date of birth: November 1, 1993
  • studied with Prof. Svetlin Roussev at the Haute école de musique de Genève, with Prof. Pierre Amoyal at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne for his Bachelor studies and continued his studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg;
  • masterclasses with violinists including Olivier Charlier, Yair Kless, Gérard Poulet, Mi-Kyung Lee, Robert Rozek, Christian Altenburger, Sergiu Schwartz, Itzhak Rashkovsky.

Prizes: Internationaler Anton Rubinstein Wettbewerb 2019, 1st CullerArts International Violin Competition (Spain), 8th International Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition

  Program:

First Round

Bach Ciaccona from Partita in D minor for Solo Violin

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major K. 219

Paganini Caprice No. 5

Second Round

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat major Op. 12 No. 3

Enescu “Ménétrier” from Impressions d’enfance Suite Op. 28

Ysaÿe Poème élégiaque in D minor Op. 12

Semifinal

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major Op. 78

Enescu Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano Op. 25, “dans le caractère populaire roumain”

Waxman Carmen Fantasie

Final

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35