Elias David Moncado
Violin
The brilliant young German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist Elias David Moncado (born in 2000), currently a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Stiftung and Gautier Capuçon Foundation, is considered “one of the greatest talents of his generation” (Anne-Sophie Mutter). As the youngest winner of the 1st Grand Prix and 10 special prizes at the 2019 International Karol Lipiński Violin Competition in Poland, as well as the 1st prize winner of both the International Valsesia Musica and Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competitions in 2021, his playing is characterized by a “sound that electrifies, that moves” (Badische Zeitung).
Elias David Moncado is a guest at various festivals such as the Lucerne and Gstaad Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Kissinger Musiksommer, Rheingau Music Festival and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Solo projects in his young career include concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Baden-Baden Philharmonic, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, Brandenburger Symphoniker, Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra Japan, Sofia Philharmonic and Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
Together with Anne-Sophie Mutter and “Mutter’s Virtuosi”, he has appeared at international concert stages such as Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Philharmonie Luxembourg and Roy Thomson Hall Toronto. Other highlights include his 2025 debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris with l‘Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Smetana Hall in Prague with the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and in Seoul with the Korean Chamber Orchestra. His debut at the Tönhalle Zürich took place in 2024 with the Zürcher Symphoniker. In 2023 he made his debut at the Konzerthaus Vienna as part of a tour to Germany, Austria and Bulgaria performing Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
Elias David Moncado’s critically acclaimed debut CD was released in 2022 by Avi-Music with works by Hindemith, Poulenc and Bartók. He developed an intensive concert career while studying with Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Zakhar Bron, Pierre Amoyal and currently a student at the Kronberg Academy under the tutelage of Mihaela Martin.
Elias David Moncado performs on a collection of fine violins, including a Giovanni Battista Rogeri, Brescia (around 1700), from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben Hamburg, a G.B. Guadagnini, Turin (around 1771) from a private patron, as well as the 1724 “Ludwig, Ex-Szigeti” Stradivarius, provided by the L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.
