third prize of 10,000 EUR in cash at the seventh international Frits
Kraisler violin competition, which wrapped up in the Austrian capital
city of Vienna on September 23.
The 22-year-old
Vietnamese-Russian violinist is currently studying at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory. His father Nguyen Van Thong, is a businessman and his
Russian mother, Marina Pritchina, is a teacher in Saint-Petersburg.
Ailen has won four first prizes at the International Tchaikovsky
Competition for Young Musicians in Japan and third prize at the
international violin competition in Sweden last year.
The young violinist plans to get a doctorate degree at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory, which will provide him with opportunities to perform
world-wide.
First prize of the Frits Kraisler
competition this year was worth 15,000 EUR and second prize 12,000 EUR.
These prizes went to Russian violinists Nikita Borisoglebsky and
Ekaterina Frolova.
Frits Kraisler (1875-1962) was an
Austrian musician and a violinist of exceptional talent. The
international violin competition named after him was first organised in
1979./.
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