Lara Eberitzsch, a 15-year-old pre-university student in Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger’s violin class, has won the Platinum Prize at the Ravel Award International Music Competition.
The Ravel Award IMC (International Music Competition) is an international online competition open to musicians of all ages and nationalities. Participants are free to choose their own repertoire; there is no obligation to perform works by Maurice Ravel.
Lara Eberitzsch performed the first two movements – Allegro moderato and Andante non troppo – from Henryk Wieniawski’s (1835–1880) Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22.
Lara Eberitzsch was born in Karlsruhe in 2011. She has been taking violin lessons with Yefim Shkolnyk since 2016 and, since 2025, at the Pre-College of the Karlsruhe University of Music with Prof. Laurent Albrecht Breuninger.
She has successfully taken part in numerous music competitions: she has won first prize 11 times, each time with the maximum score, in regional and state competitions in the solo and chamber music categories of ‘Jugend musiziert’. In 2024, she won first prize with the highest marks in the piano and string instrument duo category at the national ‘Jugend musiziert’ competition and performed at the final concert for the first-prize winners in Lübeck. In 2025, she once again won first prizes in both the solo and piano trio categories at the national ‘Jugend musiziert’ competition. At the national Carl Bechstein Competition in Berlin in 2021, she won third prize in the violin and piano duo category as one of the youngest participants in her age group. Lara won the gold prize for chamber music at the Classical Stars International Music Competition in 2024 and another gold prize in the violin solo category at the Amadeus International Music Awards in 2025. As the youngest participant at the Carl Flesch Academy in 2026, she won the Werner Stiefel Prize, worth €3,500, which includes a solo concert performance with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the season opening of the Patronage Society for Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra Baden-Baden on Saturday 19 September 2026.
She took part in masterclasses with Prof. Markus Stange in 2023, Prof. Dr Saule Tatubaeva in 2024, Prof. Roberto Domingos in 2024, Prof. Sontraud Speidel in 2025 and Prof. Elena Graf in 2025. She has been playing in the Baden-Württemberg State Youth Orchestra since April 2025, and has been a concertmaster since 2026.
Since 2024, Lara has been playing a violin marked ‘Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, Milan 1750’, on loan from the Baden-Württemberg State Collection.
She is a scholarship holder of the Riemschneider Foundation, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now.