Solenne Païdassi (violin, France)received the Audience Award and an exquisite prize – golden Easter egg handcrafted by the famous Russian jeweler Vladimir Mikhailov – at the gala night of the Musical Olympus Foundation in Berlin. She stepped in at the last moment to substitute for Marc Bouchkov who had fallen ill.

Traditionally, at every concert of the Musical Olympus Festival the audience can choose the best performer, in their opinion, through a vote.After the concert in Berlin on November, 14 the audience chose Solenne Païdassi, the First Prize winner of the 2010 Long-Thibaud Competition, participant of the Musical Olympus Festival in St Petersburg and the festival concert at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2011.