Held biannually, this year's final round was held in November 2021, in Olavshallen, Trondheim, Norway.
The first prize was awarded to 26-year-old Yukari Ohno from Japan.
A current student of Pierre Amoyal at the Mozarteum Salzburg, Elias David Moncado is a former major prize winner at the Hindemith, Andrea Postacchini, Karol Lipinski, Sendai, and
Born into a musical family in Kiev in 1948, he studied violin with Boris Belenky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire and chamber music with Valentin Berlinsky
This year's opening round candidates are as follows:
Chisa Kitagawa (Japan)
Guido Sant't Anna (Brazil)
Elias David Moncado (Germany)
Marie Helling (Germany)
Alexandra Weisbecker (Russia)
