Ukrainian violinist Bohdan Luts has won First Prize at the 17th Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition! 🇺🇦
In the final, he performed Henryk Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2 accompanied by the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Łukasz Borowicz.
Fellow finalists Jinzhu Li and SooBeen Lee received Second and Third Prizes, respectively.
Bohdan Luts is one of Ukraine’s most highly awarded young violinists. In 2023, at just 18 years old, he won First Prize at the Long-Thibaud International Violin Competition, one of the most challenging international music competitions.
Bohdan was born in Lviv in 2004. He studied at the Mykola Lysenko Kyiv Music Lyceum with Olha Korinets and at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv Music Lyceum with Mariia Futorska. Bogdan is a graduate of the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland (studying under Professors Oleg Kaskiv, Guillaume Schillem, and Renaud Capuçon).
He is currently studying with Professor Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) in Austria.