Contestants
II Competition

Yuran Cai

Cai Yuran was born in China in 1993. He began learning to play the violin at the age of four. He studied at the Central Music School of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 2004 to 2012. Cai Yuran graduated from the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2019 (Germany). He has been studying at the Folkwang University of the Arts (Germany) since 2020.

He has performed at the Grand Hall and Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Lyon Conservatory (France), Shen Zhen Grand Theater (China), Rector’s Palace in Dubrovnik (Croatia) and other venues.

Cai Yuran has attended the workshops of Viktor Tretyakov, Evgenia Chugaeva, Patinka Kopec.

Program
I ROUND
J. S. Bach
Adagio and Fuga from Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001
N. Paganini
Caprice No. 17 in E-flat major, Op. 1
E. Ysaye
Sonata for violin solo No. 3
in D minor “Ballade”, Op. 27

II ROUND
J. Brahms
Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
A. Rosenblatt
“Siberian Blues”
M. Ravel
“Tzigane”,concertrhapsodyfor violinand piano

III ROUND
W. А. Mozart
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 4 in D major, KV 218


IV ROUND
J. Brahms
Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major, Op. 77