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Financial trader, mathematician and millionaire, Alexey Shor took up composition later in life – and his music has been finding its way into the world’s most prominent concert halls for the past decade.

The Armenian violinist talks about his “shocking... unbelievable” win at the lucrative competition in Dubai – taking home over €200,000 and embarking on a globetrotting concert tour.

The uber-glitzy classical music festival opens with performances by Franz Schubert Filharmonia and the Tokyo Philharmonic, and soloists Edgar Moreau and Giuseppe Gibboni.