Starting on 10 August this year, the 36 young violinists will be competing for the biggest prize pot available in any competition
The Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition yesterday announced the 36 candidates chosen by the pre-selection jury to take part in the live rounds beginning in August.
In total, 174 young violinists applied to enter the competition for a chance to win its $100,000 top prize, $50,000 second prize or $25,000 third prize. A further $10,000 prize is offered for the best performance of a Chinese work – this year Qigang Chen’s La joie de la souffrance.
It is the biennial competition’s second editition – the first was won by Japanese violinist Mayu Kishima in 2016.
The candidates are:
- Yurina Arai, Japan
- Marie Bégin, Canada
- Jiayi Chen, China
- Yige Chen, China
- Ellinor D’Melon, Jamaica
- Hiu Sing Fan, Hong Kong, China
- Mone Hattori, Japan
- Shucong He, China
- Valerie Kim, United States
- Alina Kobialka, United States
- Miyeon Lee, South Korea
- William Lee, Taiwan, China
- Quanshuai Li, China
- Po-Yu Lin, Taiwan, China
- Ruifeng Lin, China
- Zhen Liu, China
- Petr Lundstrem, Russia
- Ashley Park, United States
- Diana Pasko, Russia
- Eva Rabchevska, Ukraine
- Arsenis Selalmazidis, Greece
- Dmitry Smirnov, Russia
- Ji Won Song, South Korea
- Olga Šroubková, Czech
- Sophia Su, United States
- Anna Tanaka, Japan
- Yun Tang, China
- Chang Yuan Ting, Canada
- Diana Tishchenko, Ukraine
- Chieri Tomii, Japan
- Jacqueline Tso, United States
- Jiazhi Wang, China
- Runyin Zhang, China
- Alex Zhou, United States
- Jin Zhou, China
- Nancy Zhou, United States
The violinists will enter the quarter-final rounds starting on 10 August and progress through semi-final and finals over the course of three weeks.
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