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

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The GuardianTeenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final
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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.…

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