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News Success Young student Konstantin Demydas receives award

Violinist Konstantin Demydas, a junior student in Prof Daniel Gaede's class, has been awarded the Leonhard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize 2024 by the city of Fürth. The prize is worth 1,650 euros. . Congratulations!

Konstantin Demydas received violin lessons from private teachers and at Musikpunkt Nuremberg. He has been a member of the orchestra since 2017 and was concertmaster of the Junge Fürther Streichhölzer from 2019 to 2021. He has now been concertmaster of the Junge Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg for several years. This is the youth orchestra of the Nuremberg State Theatre.

He is a multiple 1st prize winner of the German national competition "Jugend musiziert". Since 2023 he has been a scholarship holder of the Hofmann Hagemann Hildesheim Foundation and plays on loan on the foundation's own Gaetano Pasta violin from 1713.

In 2024 he won 1st prize at the International Elite Competition and made his debut at the prizewinners' concert in the small hall of Carnegie Hall in New York in June of that year.