Jakow Pavlenko (*2003 in Berlin) received his first violin lessons at the age of five from Olga Babenko at the Berlin Music School. From 2013 to 2022, he was trained by Prof. Ina Kertscher at the Institute for the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. Since 2022, he has been a student in Prof. Antje Weithaas' violin class at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin.

Jakow Pavlenko has won numerous prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" competition. In 2016, he was old enough to take part in the national competition for the first time. There he was immediately awarded 1st prize in the "Violin solo" category with the highest score, along with a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben. In the same year, he was awarded 3rd prize and the young talent prize in the German final of the competition for the 22nd Lions Music Prize.

In February 2017, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben honored him as the youngest prizewinner of the 25th competition of the German Musical Instrument Fund and presented him as the highest-rated new applicant at the prizewinners' concert, which was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk. Since then, the foundation has provided him with an instrument on loan, currently a violin by Giuseppe Ornati, Milan 1924, owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.

In May 2017, the young violinist opened the foundation's festive concert at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, followed by further appearances, such as at the summer concert on Sylt, the Aachen Coronation Banquet, the awarding of the Charlemagne Prize to Emmanuel Macron in Aachen and the anniversary concert in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie.He also receives additional support through the foundation's sponsorship program with a monthly scholarship from the Freunde Junger Musiker Bremen e.V.

In May 2021, he was the youngest participant to win second prize and several special prizes at the second edition of the Odessa International Violin Competition. In October 2021, he also won second prize and two special prizes at the international Viktor Tretyakov Violin Competition in Krasnoyarsk. Since October 2022 he has been a Deutschlandstipendiat holder and is sponsored by the Rotary Club Kurfürstendamm. In 2023 he founded the "Quartett Mitte". Jakow has been a Cusanuswerk scholarship holder since 2024.In February of this year, he won the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the second edition of the "Stuttgart International Violin Competition".

In his young career, Jakow has already performed with renowned orchestras such as the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odessa Symphony Orchestra, the Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Camerata and many more under the direction of renowned conductors such as Christoph Mathias Mueller, Hobart Earl, Colin Metters, Pavel Baleff, Vladimir Lande and Daniel Austrich.

Jakow has successfully taken part in master classes with world-famous professors and soloists, including Viktor Tretyakov, Saschko Gawriloff, Ana Chumacenco, Julia Fischer, Ingolf Turban and Kirill Troussov.

He has been a guest at renowned festivals such as the Ludwigsburg Festival, the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, the Hitzacker Music Week, the Rheingau Music Festival and the "Open Air Festival Idéal at the Potager du Roi" in Paris. In April 2024, he made his successful solo tour debut in Japan with concerts in Tokyo, Kyoto and Hiroshima, among others.

First Round

• G. Fauré: Sonata No. 1 A major op. 13
  • 1. Allegro molto (8')
• J. S. Bach: Sonata No. 1 G minor BWV 1001
  • 2. Fuga (6')
• W. A. Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 KV 219
  • 1. Allegro Aperto (9')
• N. Paganini: Caprices for solo violin op. 1, No. 24 (5')

Second Round

• E. Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata op. 27 No. 1 in G minor (16')
  • 1. Grave
  • 2. Fugato
  • 3. Allegro poco scherzoso
  • 4. Finale: con brio
• F. Schubert: Rondo in B minor for violin and piano, D 895 (15')
• P. R. Flys: Sonata for solo Violin (6')
  • 1. Lento capriccioso - Vivo
  • 2. Largo - Allegretto
• C. Saint-Saëns (arr: E. Ysaÿe): Caprice d’après L’Etude en Forme de Valse op. 52 (10')

Piano: UdK accompanist

Finale

• S. Prokofjew: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major (21')
  • 1. Andantino
  • 2. Scherzo: Vivacissimo
  • 3. Moderato – Allegro moderato