Elias David Moncado

21-year-old German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist Elias David Moncado is the 1st prize winner of the 2021 International Valsesia Musica competition and 2021 International Vladimir Spivakov competition, as well as the youngest ever winner of the 1st grand prize as well as 10 special prizes at the 2019 International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition in Poland.
Additionally, he was the youngest prizewinner of the 2019 International Sendai Violin Competition Japan and of the 2017 Concours International de l’Orchestre Philharmonique of Morocco, and was a prizewinner at the Int. Louis Spohr and Andrea Postacchini violin competitions. With 10, he was the youngest ever winner of the Europäischer Hoffnungspreis of Pro Europa.
With 12, he debuted at the Berliner Philharmonie with Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin. As a soloist he performed with Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, MAV Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra Japan, amongst others.
He was a soloist at numerous festivals like the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Brandenburger Sommer, Rhein-Ruhr-Festival/ Recklinghausen, Next Generation Festival Bad Ragaz, Printemps Musical des Alizés, Essaouira, Morocco, Mozartfestival Schloss Schwetzingen and Kissinger Musiksommer.
He studied with Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg and Prof. Zakhar Bron, and is currently studying at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Pierre Amoyal. He plays a violin by Giambattista Rogeri, Brescia (around 1700) from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg.