Diana Tishchenko has just been awarded with the 1st Grand Prix Jacques Thibaud at the legendary Long-Thibaud-Crespin International Violin Competition 2018 in Paris by a prestigious jury (chairman: Renaud Capucon) and she also received a violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini 1754, given her on loan for 3 years; and furthermore a special prize by the label Warner Classics & Erato for a CD recording.

The Berlin-based violinist of ukrainian descent Diana Tishchenko played her debut concert with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Berlin’s Philharmonie, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein in 2014. The famous german newspaper der Tagesspiegel reviewed her performance with a following quote: Tishchenko  „compels the listener even in the first measures of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1… With a tone of incessant, nuance-rich intensity, she opens our eyes to the inner drama of this piece…(...) Simply genius!”

"Du style, de l’énergie et le sens du risque. Ces quatre jeunes français font sourire la musique."

The Guardian

Fondé en 2012 à Paris, le quatuor Van Kuijk accumule les récompenses depuis quelques années, contribuant ainsi à sa notoriété grandissante. Elu « Rising Stars » pour la saison 2017/2018 par le réseau ECHO qui réunit les plus grandes salles de concert européennes, le quatuor a remporté en 2015 le Premier Prix du « Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition », assorti des prix Haydn et Beethoven, et est l’un des ‘BBC New Generation Artists’ qu’un concert aux BBC PROMS en août 2017 couronnera les deux années du programme.