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The Third Competition - 2005

The Second Competition - 2004

The First Competition – 2003

TV broadcast about the competitionRunning commentary



The Competition that took place in Moscow attracted the attention not only of Russian cultural community but also of the world one due to the interest to the art of violin growing recently in USA, Europe, Japan and in the other countries of the world.

The resonance produced by the Competition and support received by it both in Russia and abroad were expressed in the numerous comments and reviews in the national and foreign mass media.

the Kultura TV Channel

“‘reviewed the violin troops’ … in the hall of the Moscow International Music Center”

Radio Mayak

Interview with Sergey Stadler, President of the Competition Jury

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Radio Liberty

“He captivates one with his personality, those legends circulating around his name, his biographical facts, his looks, his music that somehow contains all the best”



Print press about the competition

Official website of the Ryazan Region Administration

One of the main goals of the competition was to support bright and talented young musicians and to further develop the Russian violin school...

Itogi Weekly Magazine

“The Paganini Competition is an event of great significance”

Parlamentskaya Gazeta Newspaper

“It’s an open secret that the Russian violin school is still best in the world”

Itogi Weekly Magazine

“Moscow, that got itself the ‘capital of the Russian violin school’ status in the musical world, has become one more international violin competition richer”

Cultural Information Agency

“The final chord of the competition sounded in the form of a concert held in the Moscow International Music Center”

Rossiyskaya Gazeta Newspaper

“On November 27, Moscow launches a new music competition – the Niccol? Paganini Violin Competition”

Moscow Times

“Next week, approximately 30 violin players take aim at some of those prizes, as they display their talents in the very first Moscow Paganini Violin Competition”

Moskovskaya Pravda Newspaper

“The First Moscow Violin Competition … takes place from November 27 to December 1”

Rossiya Newspaper

“Value orientation points remain the same, meaning that they continue listening to music by Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart in the same way as they did, say, a hundred years ago”

Profile Magazine

The Paganini Competition of young violinists... aspires to gain the status of the most ambitious undertaking of the season...

Vedomosti Newspaper

“Paganini’s name is a universal symbol of the violin art”

Web-site www.samara.siora.ru

“Paganini is the symbol of the violin art everywhere in the world and that is why we gave his name to our competition on which we pin high hopes”

Vechernyaya Moskva Newspaper

“Moscow is a city where the audience’s response it is totally unpredictable”

Itogi Weekly Magazine

“How come Moscow, which has always been a violin art Mecca, does not have a violin competition of its own? Isn’t that ridiculous?”

Moskvichka Newspaper

The idea of starting this competition was actively supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov...

Argumenty i Fakty Newspaper

“In the playing process, the violin is regarded as an extension of the hand”