Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity A teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history. The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon ...
Source: [Guardian World](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/01/bbc-young-musician-teenage-violinist-sofia-demetriades)