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Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final

Imogen Tilden · The Guardian · World

Published 2 Nov 2026, 8:00 am·1 h ago·1 min read

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Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity 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. Continue reading...

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