# Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final

- Source: Guardian World
- Published: 2026-11-01T21:00:21+00:00
- Category: World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/nov/01/bbc-young-musician-teenage-violinist-sofia-demetriades
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/teenage-violinist-wins-bbc-young-musician-2026-after-first-all-female--e0a740/

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 and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of

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