Candidates Announced for Shanghai's 2018 Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

The 27 quarter-finalists have been announced at the 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

The 27 live-round quarter-finalists have been announced for the 2nd Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, to be held in Shanghai, China from the 10th of August to 1st of September - including VC Young Artist Nancy Zhou.

The 2018 quarter-finalists are:

• VC Young Artist Nancy Zhou (United States)
• Yurina Arai (Japan)
• Marie Bégin (Canada)
• Jiayi Chen (China)
• Yige Chen (China)
• Hiu Sing Fan (Hong Kong, China)
• Valerie Kim (United States)
• Miyeon Lee (South Korea)
• Quanshuai Li (China)
• Po-Yu Lin (Taiwan, China)
• Ruifeng Lin (China)
• Zhen Liu (China)
• Ashley Park (United States)
• Diana Pasko (Russia)
• Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine)
• Arsenis Selalmazidis (Greece)
• Olga Šroubková (Czech)
• Sophia Su (United States)
• Anna Tanaka (Japan)
• Yun Tang (China)
• Chang Yuan Ting (Canada)
• Diana Tishchenko (Ukraine)
• Jacqueline Tso (United States)
• Jiazhi Wang (China)
• Runyin Zhang (China)
• Alex Zhou (United States)
• Jin Zhou (China)

Open to violinists of any nationality, aged between 16 and 32, the 2018 1st prize winner will receive US $100,000. 

The 2018 jury will comprise: David Stern, Vera Tsu Weiling, Zakhar Bron, Martin Campbell-White, Glenn Dicterow, Augustin Dumay, Daniel Heifetz, Emmanuel Hondré, Sreten Krstic, Weigang Li, Siqing Lu, Dora Schwartzberg, Philip Setzer, Maxim Vengerov and Lina Yu.

PICTURED: 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition Candidate, VC Young Artist Nancy Zhou