The 40 2nd Round candidates have today been announced at the 2019 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition – in Port Erin, on the Isle of Man.
The 2nd Round candidates are:
- Joachim Angster
- Jordan Bak
- En-Chi Cheng
- Toby Cook
- Yifei Deng
- Qian Hui Ho
- Heloise Houze
- Saki Ishida
- Dong Yeob Kang
- Seido Karasaki
- Paul Vincent Laraia
- Valerie Lassfolk
- Antonin Le Faure
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Wenguan Li
-
Timothy Daniel Lin
-
Yixiu Lin
- Yizilin Lliang
- Natalie Loughran
- Yuchen Lu
- Anna Lysenko
- Izabel Martinova Markova
- Alexander James Mcfarlane
- Lin Miao
-
Aoi Murase
-
Ruixin Niu
- Ao Peng
- Yunrui Qu
- Miguel Garcia Ros D’luano
- Zhenwei Shi
- Keigo Suzuki
- Maya Tal
- Aleksandr Tatarinov
- Emma Wernig
- Kinga Wojdalska
- Shuo Xu
- Yue Yu
- Emiko Yuasa
- Lan Zhang
- Paul Adrien Zientara
Open to international violists 30 years and younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €7,000, a debut recital at London's Wigmore Hall – plus a contemporary viola bow valued at €5,000.
The 2019 jury comprises: Yuri Bashmet (President & Jury Chairman), George Caird, Carol Rodland, Danusha Waskiewicz, and Mikhail Zemtsov.
Previous 1st prize winners include: Cynthia Phelps, Paul Neubauer - and VC Young Artists Timothy Ridout, Ziyu Shen and Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt.
