Elias Moncado

At the age of four, Elias received his first violin lessons from Keiko Skiba and later from Prof. Rainer Kussmaul at the Pflüger-Foundation Freiburg. Born in Aachen in 2000, Elias was already a 7-year-old junior student with Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg at the Freiburg University of Music. One year later he moved to the Julius-Stern-Institute of the Berlin University of the Arts. Since January 2016 he is also a junior student at the Interlaken Classics Academy under Prof. Zakhar Bron. At the age of 10, he was the youngest winner in the history of the European Cultural Foundation Pro Europa to receive the European Hope Award. At the age of 12 he made his debut in the Berlin Philharmonic with the German chamber orchestra Berlin. At the age of 13, he received the German-French Youth Promotion Award of the German-French Society. He has also won several international competitions such as the Paul-Hindemith-Competition in Berlin, Concours FLAME Paris, Young Paganini Legnica (Poland), Telemann Competition Poznan (Poland), Button Competition Dusseldorf, Lions Music Award Germany, Louis Spohr Competition Weimar, Andrea Postacchini Competition Fermo (Italy) and Concours International de musique de l’Orchester philharmonique du Maroc (Casablanca). He has performed with the Julius-Stern-Orchestra Berlin, Philharmonic Orchestra Freiburg, Penang Symphony Orchestra Malaysia, Zagreb Soloists, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot, Heidelberg Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as Wolfgang Trommer, Hans Richter, Fabrice Bollon and Wojciech Rajski, Gabriel Adorján, Olivier Holt and Nicolas Pasquet. Elias participated at important festivals such as the Classic Festival Bad Ragaz, Youth Music Festival at the Royal Opera House in Muscat (Oman), Music Festival Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Kissinger Music Summer, Brandenburg Summer, Crescendo Berlin, Konzerthaus Berlin, Garzer Music Summer, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Mozart Festival Castle Schwetzingen, Old Church Fautenbach Achern, Salle Alfred Cortot (Fondation Animato) Paris, Teatro Ristori Verona and Printemps Musical of Alizés. He also played for rbb Berlin, SWR 2 Baden-Württemberg, France 3 and WDR Cologne. He regularly plays chamber music in the instrumentation of violin duo, violin/viola, piano trio, piano quartet and string quartet. In November 2017, he performed for President Emmanuel Macron and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. He is a scholarship holder of Friends of Young Musicians Berlin, the European Circle of Friends of JSI Berlin, the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, the Gerd-Bucerius Foundation and the Jürgen-Ponto Foundation. As an award winner of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg, he played a Petrus Guarnerius violin, Venice 1730, from February 2017 to December 2017. Since December 2017 he plays a violin by Antonio Stradivari, 17th century, Cremona, by a German foundation. Since October 2018 he studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Pierre Amoyal.