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Teenage violinist Sofia Demetriades won the BBC Young Musician 2026, marking the competition’s first all-female final in its 48-year history.
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Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final
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Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturityA 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. Continue reading...
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