Elias David Moncado

Of German, Spanish and Malaysian descent, Elias David Moncado began the violin at four with Keiko Skiba and Rainer Kussmaul, studied with Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Zakhar Bron and Pierre Amoyal in Berlin and Salzburg, and went on to the Kronberg Academy in the class of Mihaela Martin. He was ten when he won the European Hope Prize of the Pro Europa foundation and twelve when he first played at the Berlin Philharmonie, with the Deutsches Kammerorchester. The grand prize at the Karol Lipiński competition in Poland came in 2019, which made him the youngest winner in its history; first prizes at Valsesia Musica and at the Vladimir Spivakov competition followed in 2021. He has played with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, with the Budapest Symphony, the Sendai Philharmonic and the Sofia Philharmonic, with the philharmonic orchestras of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Baden-Baden, and at the Lucerne, Gstaad, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals. A first disc of Hindemith, Poulenc and Bartók appeared on Avi-Music in 2022. He has held a scholarship of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation and support from Gautier Capuçon's foundation. Among the instruments he plays is the 1724 Ludwig, ex-Szigeti Stradivari. Born in 2000, he took a first prize at Jugend musiziert at six and the Deutsch-Französischer Förderpreis at thirteen, and in 2019 he was also the youngest prizewinner of the Sendai competition; the Louis Spohr competition in Weimar and the Postacchini in Fermo are among the others. He has held a scholarship of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation since 2023 and toured that year with Mutter's Virtuosi in Iceland, North America and Europe, playing the Golden Hall of the Musikverein, the Elbphilharmonie, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. He was a debut artist of the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam from 2020 to 2022 and made his debuts at Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo and Hitachi Systems Hall in Sendai in 2022.