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S Korean violinist, 20, wins Queen Elisabeth competition

Twenty-year-old South Korean violinist Ji Young Lim has won Belgium’s prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition. Ji’s interpretation of Brahms’s violin concerto in D major landed her the top prize of 25,000 euros ($27,470) and a four-year loan of a 1708 Stradivarius from the Nippon Music Foundation, the jury announced around midnight Saturday. Oleksii Semenenko of Ukraine and William Hagen of the United States came second and third respectively.

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