Young Armenian violinist Emanuel Tjeknavorian, son of renowned conductor Loris Tjeknavorian, has made it to the final stage of the 2015 Jan Sibelius Competition for Violinists.

As reports Violinchannel.com, the names of the finalists were announced in Helsinki on November 29, writes civilnet.am.

Austria’s representative Emanuel Tjeknavorian, 20, will be competing with five participants from Japan, the USA and Germany.

The finals will be held from December 1 to 3. Each finalist must perform two concertos with an orchestra, one of which is Sibelius’s concerto for the violin.

The first prize winner will receive 25,000 Euros and a chance to participate in several major concerts around the world.

Emanuel Tjeknavorian was born in 1995 in Vienna. He has been playing the violin since the age of 5. Emanuel has studied in the Department of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna State University and has been a student of Gerhard Schulz. Emanuel has received awards at several international competitions, including an award at the Johannes Brahms International Competition. In 2012, he won 2^nd place in the Classical Eurovision Contest, won 3^rd place at the 2014 Fritz Kreisler Awards, and in November 2014, he won the Casinos Austria Rising Star Award.

The Jan Sibelius International Competition is a competition for violinists under 30 and has been held once every five years since 1965 in memory of the famous Finnish composer. In 2000, Armenian violinist Sergey Khachatryan won the first award at this prestigious competition, becoming the youngest participant to have won in this competition at the age of 15.