Elias David Moncado, 18, is the winner of the First prize of the 5th International Karol Lipinski Violin Competition in Poland. Moncado was born in Aachen in 2000 to a family with German, Spanish and Malaysian roots. Since January 2016, he has been a junior student of the Interlaken Classics Akademie in Switzerland under Professor Zakhar Bron. He is currently a student of Professor Pierre Amoyal in Mozarteum Salzburg. He was also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in the Principality of Liechtenstein.