Japanese teenager wins German violin prize

Japanese teenager wins German violin prizeHanover  - Japanese teenager Fumiaki Miura is the winner of this year's International Violin Competition in Hanover, the organizers announced on Saturday.

The 16-year-old, who studied in Vienna, is to receive a 50,000- euro (73,500-dollar) prize after performing a violin concert by Peter Tchaikovsky.

The prize also includes the three-year loan of an 18th Century Italian violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.

The Hanover-based competition is put on every three years by the Foundation of Lower Saxony.

The second prize, worth 30,000 euros, went to German-Korean Clara- Jumi Kang. (dpa)