69 participants have been chosen to take part in this year’s competition, taking place in Brussels from 6 May to 12 June 2024
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The Queen Elisabeth Competition has announced its violin candidates for the 2024 edition, the first round of which will take place in Flagey from 6 to 11 May this year.
Applications for the 20th violin edition closed on 29 November 2023. From 290 violinists between the ages of 18 to 31, 70 candidates were selected to participate in the first public round of the competition, however, one selected violinist has withdrawn.
Videos of the candidates were viewed by an international jury, presided by Gilles Ledure and consisting of Augustin Dumay, Lorenzo Gatto, Philippe Graffin, Victor Kissine, Tatiana Samouil and Vineta Sareika.
The candidates have the opportunity to be selected for the semi-finals from 13 to 18 May, where 24 contestants will perform a recital with piano accompaniment. The semi-finalists will perform the compulsory work The Sun and Her Flowers by Charlotte Bray. Additionally, semi-finalists will perform a Mozart concerto with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, under the baton of Vahan Mardirossian.
Twelve finalists will be selected to perform in the final rounds from 27 May to 1 June, where they will perform a concerto of their own choice, with the Belgian National Orchestra under the baton of Antony Hermus, as well as a compulsory work by Thierry Escaich.
The list of candidates is as follows:
Anna Agafia
Clarissa Bevilacqua
Claire Bourg
Joshua Brown
Angela Chan
Hana Chang
Jiayi Chen
Po-Fan Chen
Tong Chen
I-Hao Cheng
Elli Choi
SongHa Choi
Emmanuel Coppey
Hawijch Elders
Hiu Sing Fan
Mira Marie Foron
Kaori Furusawa
Laurel Gagnon
KayCee Galano
Léon Haffner
Kingston Ho
Risa Hokamura
Yiyang Hou
Anna Im
Luka Ispir
Amia Janicki
Lorenz Karls
Meruert Karmenova
Eun Che Kim
Haram Kim
Daniel Kogan
Alice Lee
Anna Lee
Thomas Lefort
Sofie Leifer
Ruifeng Lin
Bohdan Luts
Charlotte Marckx
Nathan Mierdl
Teofil Milenkovic
Mathilde Milwidsky
Julia Mirzoev
Georgii Moroz
Maine Nishiyama
Haerim Oh
Audrey Park
Julian Rhee
Zixuan Shen
Dmitry Smirnov
Julia Smirnova
Karen Su
Adam Suska
Ruslan Talas
Ayaka Uchio
Dmytro Udovychenko
Pauline van der Rest
Julian Walder
Sophie Wang
Alexandra Weissbecker
Qingzhu Weng
Tianren Xie
Esther Yang
Minami Yoshida
Mio Yoshie
Dayoon You
Rok Zaletel-Cernoš
Eva Zavaro
Leonid Zheleznyi
Kevin Zhu
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