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10 Mar 2026: Selections Made

Our professors had some tough decisions to make, to select the best of the best from 150 applications and 40 countries. We are thrilled to have so many wonderful young talents on board again, this year.

21 Dec 2025: Happy Holidays

The team of the Sarasate Academy wishes all of you peaceful and joyful days and a great start into the new year. We are looking forward to your applications and will get back to you in March. In the meantime, feel free to ask our support for answers to questions you may have.

01 Dec 2025: Now Open for Applications

The preparations for the Sarasate Academy 2026 have begun, and the new online application is now online here. We are very grateful to have a wonderful team of professors again, in 2026: Mihaela Martin (violin), Kirill Troussov (violin), Thomas Riebl (viola) and Frans Helmerson (cello).

19 Mai 2025: And the Winner is ...

It was a great time with all of you. Thanks to the professors, accompanists, participants and the entire team! And congratulations to our winners (in alphabetical order):

• Jan Bogdan (cello): The Violin Channel Award
• Natalia Dragan (violin): Florian Leonhard Fine Violins Award
• Bill Ko (viola): Gewa Award
• Alexander Lau (cello): Classeek Insights Award
• Pablo Laporev (cello): Classeek Gold Award
• Álvaro Lozano Cames (cello): Sarasate Award
• Maria Lundina (violin): Sarasate Award
• Ignacio Navarro (violin): Pirastro Award
• Calliope Smith (violin): Pirastro Award
• Cassandra Teissedre (viola): Pirastro Award
• Grégoire Torossian (violin): Henle Award
• Noguchi Wakana (violin): Violinbooks.com Award
• Tracy Zhao (violin): Dolfinos Award
• Youyi Zhu (cello): Pirastro Award

For more details about the awards visit the awards page 2025

15 Mai 2025: Ready to Rumble

All participants arrived in Madrid, safe and sound. We are excited to begin the first chapter of the Sarasate Academy.

20 Mar 2025: Evaluation Complete

We've had an overwhelming amount of applications and our professors had some difficult choices to make. The final 28 participants of the Sarasate Academy 2025 have now been selected. We are looking forward to seeing you all in May.

07 Jan 2025: Amazing Prizes & Awards

For this year's academy our generous partners have donated awards worth many thousand Euro, such as:

• Loan of a fine old Italian instrument by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins
• A case for your instrument by Gewa
• String sets for different instruments by Pirastro
• A solo performance with a symphonic orchestra in Spain
• Career-boosting awards and Ambassador program by Classeek

... and more. For details visit see the full list of awards 2025 »

16 Dec 2024: Another Partner Joins the Academy

Florian Leonhard Fine Violins make, restore and sell the finest string instruments. Welcome aboard!

13 Dec 2024: Classeek Becomes Partner

The academy welcomes its new partner! Classeek discover, follow and support classical music talent globally.

10 Nov 2024: Violinbooks.com Join Our Partners

The Stradivari Books have the world's highest quality of photographic violin reproduction. We are proud the have won violinbooks.com as our new partner.

24 Oct 2024: New Partner on Board

We are very happy that Dolfinos, the maker of the great Miniput and best known for their high-class chin & shoulder rests, will support the Sarasate Academy from the coming season onwards.

09 Oct 2024: Five Final concerts

The Sarasate Academy will present a total of five final concerts, including the academy classes, chamber music and a gala concert with the academy's professors. For further details visit concerts 2025

24 Sep 2024: Two Amazing New Sponsors

Pirastro and The Violin Channel have joined our board of supporters. Thank you very much!

15 Sep 2024: New Sponsor Henle

A big "thank you" to our new supporter Henle, who will be giving every academy participant 1000 credits for the Henle Library for free.

10 Sep 2024: Gewa Award

We are very happy to have won Gewa Music as a sponsor of the Sarasate Academy. Gewa Music will be giving selected prizes to academy participants.

08 Sep 2024: The Sarasate Award

We are pleased to announce an extraordinary opportunity for our students: The Sarasate Award will be given to this year's most outstanding student, who will have the opportunity to perform as a soloist with the renowned Orquesta Camerata de Castilla - La Mancha, during the 2025/26 season in Albacete, Spain.

05 Sep 2024: World-Class Professors

We are happy and proud to announce the renowned professors who will join the academy founders Kirill Troussov (violin, artistic director) and Paloma Pierzchala & Eduardo González (chamber music, directors) in 2025: Pierre Amoyal (violin), Veronika Hagen (viola) and Frans Helmerson (cello). For more details visit the academy page

01 Sep 2024: Sarasate Academy Goes Live

Welcome to the brand-new website of the first edition of the newly founded Sarasate Academy! For more details about the academy and its founders visit the about page