Stradivarius and more: The exciting year 2025 in return

Elias has been given the tremendous honor to perform on the „Ludwig, Ex-Szigeti“ 1724 Stradivarius since late spring of 2025, on indefinite loan by the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

This is only one of the highlights of a very exciting year 2025, including his debut at Weill Music Room at Carnegie Hall New York, his Seoul debut with the Korean Chamber Orchestra and Mendelssohn D minor Violin Concerto , his Smetana Hall Prague debut with the North Czech Philharmonic and Sibelius Violin Concerto, his Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées début with Orchestre National d‘Ile de France, Beethoven Violin Concerto and Marc Leroy-Calatayud, his appearance at ZDF Morgenmagazin, at Vevey Spring Classic Festival alongside Till Fellner, Maxim Rysanov and Daniel Müller-Schott , at “Piano à Lyon” with Gautier Capuçon and Gabriel Durliat, at the Festival de Musique de Menton , at Narbonne Classics Festival France, at Creuse Festival France, at “Alma Concerts” Festival in Wrocław, Poland , at Isarphilharmonie Munich with Prague Royal Philharmonic and Heiko Mathias Förster, at the Kronberg Festival alongside Tanja Tetzlaff and Reinhard Goebel, at Schloss Elmau, and much more.

In addition, Elias has been awarded the prestigious „Révélation Radio Classique de la Fondation Gautier Capuçon“, as well as being one of the winners of the Siemens Arts Program. Here’s to a wonderful new year 2026 ahead, stay tuned!

Find out more on Elias´ impressions and thoughts on the Stradivarius violin here in the articles published by The Strad magazine and The Violin Channel:

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Siemens Arts Program Winner, Carnegie Hall Debut and ZDF Morgenagazin

Elias has been named winner of the Siemens Arts Program audition and will give his debut recital at Carnegie Hall New York (Weill Music Room) on September 4th 2025. He also appeared at the prestigious ZDF television „Morgenmagazin“, with live interview and excerpts by Bach and Ysaÿe.

The jury under the chairmanship of Prof.Dr. Stephan Frucht commented on Elias ´playing: “A brilliant instrumentalist with warm tone, musicality and deep understanding of the romantic violin repertoire. The jury sees in Elias a young artist with great potential to captivate large audiences through both personality and phrasing.”

ZDF TV describes Elias´ playing as follows: „Der Violinist Elias David Moncado verbindet feinsinnige Klanggestaltung mit beeindruckender Reife.“ (The Violinist Elias David Moncado connects an exquisite sound culture with astonishing maturity.)

You can rewatch the interview and Ysaÿe excerpt here:

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„Révélation Radio Classique“ Award

Elias has won the prestigious award „Révélation Radio Classique de la Fondation Gautier Capuçon“ out of 8 nominees from Europe, USA and Canada.
He will give his debuts in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on June 20th and June 21st 2025 with the Orchestre National d‘Ile de France under the baton of Marc Leroy-Calatayud at the „grand concert d‘été de Radio Classique“.
The concert on 21st of June will be broadcasted live on Radio Classique.

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An exciting second half of 2024

The second half of 2024 includes many exciting concerts with orchestra for Elias.
In August 2024, he performed Vivaldi‘s Four Seasons both as a soloist and conductor with the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra. In September 2024, he performed the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Sopot at the season opening as well as the Bruch Violin Concerto with the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, as part of the inauguration of the 6th Int. Karol Lipinski Competition and Festival.
In October 2024, on a less than 24-hour notice, Elias jumped in as a soloist with Beethoven‘s violin concerto and the Kammerphilharmonie Bad Nauheim.
November 2024 will include two orchestra concert highlights: The Bottesini Gran Duo Concertante in the Grand Hall of Casals Forum Kronberg with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn together with double bassist Dominik Wagner on November 9th, as well as the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e minor at the Grand Hall of Berlin Philharmonic with the Berliner Symphoniker on November 10th.

2023/2024 Season Highlights

The 2023/2024 season saw many exciting highlights for Elias. Since 2023 he has been named scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie-Mutter foundation, since 2024 he is a prize winner of the Gauthier Capuçon Foundation.

Out of his busy concert performances, highlights include his debut at the Tonhalle Zürich with the Zürcher Symphoniker with Mozart´s Violin Concerto in A major in January 2024, his Morocco concert tour in October 2023 with Tschaikowski ´s Violin Concerto and Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, as well as his concert tour as a soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in November 2023 under the baton of Sascha Goetzel and Nayden Todorov in Bulgaria, Austria and Germany, where he gave his debuts at the Großer Saal of Wiener Konzerthaus (Recording by Medici TV, Preview here), Beethovensaal at Liederhalle Stuttgart and Kurhaus Wiesbaden (Rheingau Musikfestival), amongst others.

In 2023, three tours with Anne-Sophie Mutter and „Mutter´s Virtuosi“ took him to Iceland, USA, Canada and throughout Europe, where he also performed as a soloist next to Mutter at venues like Golden Hall of Musikverein Wien, Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxemburg, Roy Thomson Hall Toronto, Knight Concert Hall Miami, Kravis Center West Palm Beach, Palacio de Festivales Santander as well as Lucerne Festival.

The Vienna Musikverein concert in which Elias is also featured in the Vivaldi Concerto for Three Violins, The third Bach Brandenburg Concerto as well as André Previn ´s Nonet, has been featured on Ms Mutter´s CD with Deutsche Grammophon, commemorating her 60th anniversary. deutschegrammophon.com

Ms Mutter has described Elias as the following: “The pronunciation of his name stands for that, what he is: A gift.”

1st prize at the International Valsesia Musica Violin Competition Italien

Elias won the 1st prize at the Int. Valsesia Musica Violin Competition in Italy. In the final, he played Tschaikowski ´s Violin Concerto with the Antonio Vivaldi Orchestra and conductor Lorenzo Passerini.

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