US violinist wins all-female, all-Asian Enescu final

US violinist wins all-female, all-Asian Enescu final

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

September 19, 2024

US violinist Mayumi Kanagawa (centre among the finalists) has won this year’s George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s 3rd concerto.

Second was South Korea’s Hyeonjeong Lee, aged 13.

Japan’s Wakana Kimura came third.

The international jury was chaired by Dmitry Sitkovetsky.

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