The 70 candidates have been announced for the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition – to be held in Brussels, Belgium from the 29th of April to the 25th of May, 2019.
The 70 opening round candidates are:
- VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi (Canada)
- VC Young Artist Ioana Cristina Goicea (Romania)
- VC Young Artist Luke Hsu (United States)
- VC Young Artist Stephen Kim (United States)
- VC Young Artist Ji Won Song (South Korea)
- Misako Akama (Japan)
- Stella Chen (United States)
- Mizuki Chiba (Japan)
- Hannah Cho (United States)
- Jung Min Choi (South Korea)
- Kwan Yeung Brian Choi (China)
- Yun Jae Choi (South Korea)
- Hyunjoo Choo (South Korea)
- Clémence de Forceville (France)
- Irène Duval (France)
- Hawijch Elders (Netherlands)
- Akiyo Fujiwara (Japan)
- Kaori Furusawa (Japan)
- Laurel Gagnon (United States)
- Anna Göckel (France)
- Mairead Hickey (Ireland)
- Sylvia Huang (Belgium)
- Jueun Jeong (South Korea)
- Yiying Jiang (China)
- Meruert Karmenova (Kazakhstan)
- Karen Kido (Japan)
- Gyehee Kim (South Korea)
- Siwoo Kim (South Korea/United States)
- Woo Hyung Kim (South Korea)
- Yoerae Kim (South Korea)
- Daniel Kogan (Canada/Russia)
- Kunwha Lee (South Korea)
- Shannon Lee (Canada/United States)
- Wiliam Lee (China)
- Yoo Jin Lee (South Korea)
- Christine Lim (South Korea/United States)
- Hyun Jae Lim (South Korea)
- Po-Yu Lin (China)
- Fanglei Lu (China)
- Seina Matsuoka (Japan)
- Michiru Matsuyama (Japan)
- Mathilde Milwidsky (United Kingdom)
- Yoshie Mio (Japan)
- Kyungah Oh (South Korea)
- Seiji Okamoto (Japan)
- Yukari Ohno (Japan)
- Ashley Jeehyun Park (United States)
- Kyumin Park (South Korea)
- Liya Petrova (Bulgaria)
- Johanna Pichlmair (Austria)
- Sergey Pospelov (Russia)
- Julia Pusker (Hungary)
- Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine)
- Dmitry Serebrennikov (Russia)
- Dmitry Smirnov (Russia)
- Olga Sroubková (Czech Republic/Russia)
- Sumina Studer (Switzerland)
- Elly Suh (South Korea/United States)
- Ryosuke Suho (Japan)
- Emily Sun (Australia)
- Naoko Tajima (Japan)
- Max Tan (United States)
- Yuna Toki (Japan)
- Yukiko Uno (Japan)
- Brieuc Vourch (France)
- Melody Yuan (Canada)
- Arata Yumi (Japan)
- Zatsikha Vasyl (Ukraine)
- Eva Zavaro (France)
- Runyin Zhang (China)
Open to international violinists aged 18 to 30 years old who are ready to embark on an international career, the 1st prize winner will receive €25,000, a CD recording, a number of important international performance opportunities – plus the 4 year use of the 1708 'Huggins' Stradivarius, on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
The 2019 jury will comprise: Pierre Amoyal, Martin Beaver, Corina Belcea, Patrice Fontanarosa, Pamela Frank, Lorenzo Gatto, Koichiro Harada, Yossif Ivanov, Dong-Suk Kang, Victor Kissine, Jaime Laredo, Shirly Laub, Mihaela Martin, Midori, Natalia Prischepenko, Vadim Repin and Arabella Steinbacher
Previous 1st prize winners include: David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Jaime Laredo, Phillippe Hischhorn, Miriam Fried, Vadim Repin, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Baiba Skride - and VC Artists Ray Chen and Ji-Young Lim
