Elias David Moncado
violin
German-Spanish-Malaysian violinist Elias David Moncado has been supported by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation since 2023 and was a member of the Fondation Gautier Capuçon’s 2024 cohort. Anne-Sophie Mutter has called him “one of the greatest talents of his generation”, while the Badische Zeitung praised his “sound that electrifies and moves”. In 2019, he became the youngest winner of First Prize at the International Karol Lipiński Violin Competition in Toruń, where he also received ten special prizes. In 2021, he won First Prize at both the International Valsesia Musica Competition and the International Vladimir Spivakov Competition.
He has appeared at the Lucerne Festival, the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Kissinger Sommer, the Rheingau Musik Festival and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. His orchestral engagements include the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Göttinger Symphonieorchester, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and the MÁV Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Sascha Goetzel, Vladimir Spivakov, Nayden Todorov, Ken Takaseki, Fabrice Bollon, Thomas Guggeis, Nicolás Pasquet, Heiko Mathias Förster and Ryusuke Numajiri.
Performing with Anne-Sophie Mutter and Mutter’s Virtuosi, he has appeared at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Philharmonie Luxembourg and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. In 2026, he made his debut with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester at the Alte Oper. His 2025 debuts included Carnegie Hall in New York; the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France; Seoul with the Korean Chamber Orchestra; and Prague’s Smetana Hall with the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice. He made his Tonhalle Zürich debut with the Zürcher Symphoniker in January 2024. In 2023, he performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra on a tour of Germany, Austria and Bulgaria; medici.tv recorded the concert. A debut artist at the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam from 2020 to 2022, he also made his Japanese debuts at Hitachi Systems Hall in Sendai and Meguro Persimmon Hall in Tokyo.
His critically acclaimed debut album, featuring works by Hindemith, Poulenc and Bartók, was released by Avi-Music in 2022. His second album, Héritage, followed in June 2026 on Warner Classics/Erato, with works by Brahms, Ravel, Waxman, Boulanger, Ponce, Debussy and Kosenko.
He developed his concert career while studying with Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Zakhar Bron and Pierre Amoyal. From 2023 to 2026, he studied with Mihaela Martin at Kronberg Academy. His instruments include a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin made in Brescia around 1700 and lent by the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben; a G. B. Guadagnini made in Turin around 1771 and lent by a private patron; and the 1724 “Ludwig, ex-Szigeti” Stradivarius, lent by L-Bank Baden-Württemberg.
In September 2026, Elias David Moncado joined the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel as an Artist in residence, under the guidance of Augustin Dumay.
Last updated: 25 September 2026