One year after winning 2nd prize in the Menuhin Competition, In Mo Yang from South Korea has been awarded 1st Prize at the 2015 Paganini International Violin Competition, in Genoa, Italy. Previous 1st prize winners include: Salvatore Accardo, Leonidas Kavakos, Viktor Pikayzen, Miriam Fried, Gidon Kremer, Eugene Fedor, Ilya Kaler, Isabelle Faust and Feng Ning.

InMo will receive 20,000 Euro (USD $22,000) and a number of prestigious European performance opportunities.

A student of Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory in Boston, InMo is also a former prize winner at the Munetsugu Angel, the Joseph Joachim, Tchaikovsky and Kloster Schoental Competitions.