Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final
- A teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history.
- The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity.
- The 18-year-old is from Leicestershire, and in her first year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
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- A teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history.
- The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity.
- The 18-year-old is from Leicestershire, and in her first year of undergraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
Sources: Guardian