Jakow Pavlenko (born 2003 in Berlin) was trained by Prof Ina Kertscher at the Institute for the Early Promotion of the Musically Gifted at the Hanover University of Music from 2013 to 2022. He has been a student in Prof Antje Weithaas’s violin class at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin since 2022. He has successfully taken part in masterclasses with Viktor Tretyakov, Saschko Gawriloff, Ana Chumacenco and Julia Fischer and has performed with renowned musicians such as Mischa Maisky.
Jakow Pavlenko has won numerous prizes at national level in the »Jugend musiziert« competition. At his first participation in 2016, he was immediately honoured with 1st prize in the category »Violin solo« with the highest score, combined with a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
In February 2017, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben (German Foundation for Musical Life) honoured him as the youngest winner of the 25th German Musical Instrument Fund competition and presented him as the highest-scoring new entrant at the prizewinners’ concert, which was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk radio. 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 in the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, followed by further performances, such as the anniversary concert in the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie.
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 Viktor Tretyakov International Violin Competition in Krasnoyarsk. In February 2023, 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, Pavlenko has already performed with renowned orchestras such as the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odessa Symphony Orchestra and the Hamburg Camerata. He has performed 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.