Karol Daniš, 18 years

Talent Area: Musical talent – violin playing

Region: The Trnava Region

Brief Background:

• As a 5 year old he became a special-status student of the Music Conservatory.
• He has a great chance to become a violin player known internationally just as his inspirations Leonid Koga, Vladimír Spivakov or Václav Hudeček.
• When he was 8 years old he got the 2nd place at the international contest of young violin players Čírenie talentov (“Talent Fine-tuning”) in Dolný Kubín; one year after that he was awarded the Diploma of the Ministry of Education at the Ján Cikker Children's In­terpretation Contest in Banská Bystrica
• As a 10 year old he received recognition at the national Zoltán Kodály contest in Galanta.
• Three years ago he made it all the way to the semi-finals of the international Louis Spohr contest in Weimar, and a year after that he became a laureate of the International Bohdan Warchal Contest – Talents for Europe.
• In 2007 he reached for gold in international competition – at the Kocián violin contest he performed a brilliant rendition of the composition Scherzo Capriccioso by František Ondříček and Variations on the original theme by Henryk Wieniawski.
• His top achievement so far has been the prize for the best interpretation of a virtuoso composition and a special prize of the jury at the International Louis Spohr Contest in Weimar.
• Presently, he is a 4th grade student of the Conservatory Bratislava specialising in the violin.

Financial Support: EUR 2 870 on courses and seminars, strings, sheet music, performance outfits, travel costs and tutoring.

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