2025 BerlinBechsteinSummerAcademy

2025

Berlin-Bechstein Summer Academy Impression

In 2025, we welcomed over 50 participants from Taiwan, Germany, Australia, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Romania, Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, Latvia, France, Spain, Poland, Canada, Ukraine, and beyond.

2025 Full Schlarship Holder

Eduard Gevorgyan

Eduard Gevorgyan (born 28 April 2008 in Yerevan, Armenia) is a young pianist studying at the P. I. Tchaikovsky Specialized Secondary Music School in Yerevan under Prof. Vagharshak Harutyunyan. Since June 2024, he has been taking private lessons with Prof. Rolf Plagge at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He has won prizes in several international piano competitions, including the Marbella International Piano Competition and Piano Talents in Milan.

2025 Guest Artist

Minami Yoshida

MINAMI (Minami Yoshida) is one of the leading violinists of her generation from Japan. She gained international recognition as a laureate of the 2024 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition and further established her reputation by winning 2nd Prize and the Prize for the Best Performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto at the 2025 Jean Sibelius International Violin Competition. A recipient of numerous international awards, MINAMI has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras across Europe, North America, and Asia. She currently studies with Mihaela Martin at the Kronberg Academy and performs on the 1716 “Booth” Antonio Stradivarius, generously loaned by the Nippon Music Foundation. Beginning in Fall 2025, she joins the Berlin Philharmonic as a trial First Violinist.

The Top 10 highest-rated students of the 2025 Berlin-Bechstein Summer Academy are listed in alphabetical order:

Alix Vaillot Szwarc

Chihyu Hsu

Eduard Gevorgyan

Jiyoung Kim

Joon Oh Kim

Ray Tzu-Jui Chu

Seongmin Jung

Shang-En Hsieh

Sophie Wang

Wei-Lin Chen

Early Bird Scholarship holders: The Second Tier Scholarship