Maya Alexandra Kasprzak

She comes from a Polish-Japanese family of musicians. Her teachers include Julita Smoleń, Wieńczysław Kasprzak, and Professor Zakhar Bron. She later completed her pre-college studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) with Professor Latica Honda-Rosenberg and is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Leipzig (HMT Leipzig) with Professor Tobias Feldmann. She also receives valuable artistic inspiration from, among others, Maxim Vengerov, Professor Stephan Picard, Professor Mihaela Martin, Lisa Batiashvili, and Professor Barnabás Kelemen.

A prizewinner of numerous international violin competitions – notably of First Prize at the International Violin Competition Henri Marteau (2026), Third Prize at the International Carl Flesch Competition (2023), Third Prize at the Bartók World Competition (2023), and first prizes at the national “Jugend musiziert” competition in both solo and duo categories), she has performed at various music festivals, such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Festival Academy Budapest, the Con Spirito Festival (2025), and the Shostakovich Festival (2025) in Leipzig.

Stage One

J. Corigliano – STOMP

C. Schumann – Drei Romanzen, Op. 22

H. Wieniawski – Le Chant du Bivouac, Op. 10 No. 8

H. Wieniawski – Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 15

[Pianist: Michał Francuz]

Stage Two

P. Tchaikovsky – Valse-Scherzo in C major, Op. 34

S. Prokofiev –Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94a

K. Szymanowski – Nocturne and Tarantella, Op. 28

Stage Three

M. Weinberg – Concertino, Op. 42

Stage Four

J. Brahms – Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Final

H. Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22