The 28 violin candidates have been announced for the inaugural 2018 International Music Competition Harbin – to be held at the Harbin Conservatory of Music, in China from the 12th–26th January, 2018.
The 2018 opening round participants are:
- Serin Baek (South Korea, 21)
- Yun Fei Bai (China, 24)
- Gun Baik (South Korea, 26)
- Angela Sin Ying Chan (Hong Kong, 20)
- Qun Dai (China, 26)
- Shu Cong He (China, 25)
- Meruert Karmenova (Kazakhstan, 24)
- Hahnsol Kim (USA, 25)
- Jee Won Kim (South Korea, 27)
- Aleksandr Kostrikin (Russia, 28)
- Stepan Lavrov (Russia, 30)
- Young June Lee (South Korea, 27)
- Fang Lei Liu (China, 26)
- Petr Lundstrem (Russia, 24)
- Tian Long Mai (China, 23)
- Pei Wen Ni (China, 28)
- Kyumin Park (South Korea, 21)
- Yejin Roh (South Korea, 25)
- Dmitry Smirnov (Russia, 23)
- Ryosuke Suho (Japan, 22)
- Elena Tarosyan (Russia, 24)
- Julia Turnovsky (Austria, 27)
- Jia Zhi Wang (China, 27)
- Pin Hua Zeng (China, 21)
- An Di Zhang (China, 25)
- Hao Ya Zhang (China, 22)
- Leonid Zheleznyi (Russia, 23)
- Nancy Zhou (USA, 25)
Open to international violinists, aged between 20 and 34, the 1st prize winner will receive US $50,000.
The 2018 jury will comprise: Augustin Dumay, Ilya Kaler, Mihaela Martin, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Vera Tsu, Viktor Tretiyakov, Maxim Fedotov, Danan Liang and Alissa Margulis.
