The Zhuhai International Mozart Competition has announced the violin category candidates progressing to its 2nd round

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The 2019 Zhuhai International Mozart Competition, in Zhuhai, China, has announced its 2nd round violin category candidates:

Group A – 12 Years and Under

  • James Dan Birch (12, Australia)
  • Corina Deng (11, Canada)
  • Alana An Lan Gao (12, Australia)
  • Stefania Pospekhina (12, Russia)
  • Jinan Woo (12, South Korea)
  • Jiale Yang (11, China)
  • Shi-Xuan Yang (11, Taiwan/China)
  • Hanyue Zhang (11, China)
  • Aohze Zhang (11, China)
  • Shaoheng Zhong (10, China)
  • Jungyang Zhu (11, China) 

Group B – 13 to 16 Years Old

  • Zhonghan Chen (16, China)
  • Yu-Chia Chiu (13, Taiwan/China)
  • Yingying Jiang (15, China)
  • Yixuan Jiang (14, China)
  • Lina Nakano (14, Japan)
  • Haseung Nam (13, South Korea)
  • Piu Ying Wong (15, China)
  • Muyang Wu (13, China)
  • Yujia Xie (15, China)
  • Xunyue Zhang (15, China)
  • Jinlan Zhao (12, China)

Group C – 17 to 23 Years Old

  • Elli Choi (17, United States)
  • Yiying Jiang (21, China)
  • Masha Lakisova (17, United States)
  • Jiaqi Lu (21, China)
  • Ai Nakano (17, Japan)
  • Chenming Wang (20, China)
  • Songao Wu (21, China)
  • Siqi Yu (20, China)
  • Simon Zhu (18, Germany)

Sitting on the 2019 violin jury are: Paul Roczek (Artistic Director), Julius Berger (Chairman), Lewis Kaplan, Boris Kuschnir, Michael Ma, Silvia Marcovici, Qian Zhou and Weidong Tong.

Presented by the University of Mozarteum Salzburg, the competition is hosted in 3 age categories, with the Senior 1st prize winner receiving $30,000(USD).