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Candidates Announced for Germany’s 2018 ARD International Viola Competition

July 4, 2018

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The 49 opening-round candidates for the 2018 ARD International Viola Competition have been announced

The 49 opening-round candidates for the 2018 ARD International Viola Competition have been announced – to be held in Munich, Germany from the 7th - 16th of September, 2018.

The 2018 opening-round viola candidates are:

VC Young Artist Ziyu Shen (China)
Heejin Chang (South Korea)
En-Chi Cheng (Taiwan)
Editha Seung Won Chung (South Korea)
Njord Kårason Fossnes (Norway)
Ricardo Gaspar (Portugal)
Yitong Guo (China)
Ming-Yu Hsu (Taiwan)
Saki Ishida (Japan)
MinGwan Kim (South Korea)
Sengyun Kim (South Korea)
Gueli Kim (South Korea)
Jiwon Kim (South Korea)
Takehiro Konoe (Japan)
Georgy Kovalev (Russia)
Yana Kucherova (Russia)
Hwayoon Lee (South Korea)
Sangyoon Lee (South Korea)
Seo Hyeun Lee (South Korea)
Geunhee Lee (South Korea)
Wenguan Li (China)
Jungmin Lim (South Korea)
Wenhong Luo (China)
Anna Lysenko (Ukraine)
Agnès Mauri Galik (Poland/Spain)
Diyang Mei (China)
Seohyun Moon (South Korea)
Aoi Murase (Japan)
Wakana Ono (Japan)
Kouhei Ota (Japan)
Peter Pavlov (Russia)
Jing Peng (China)
Agnieszka Podłucka (Poland)
Tobias Reifland (Germany)
Lara Sophie Schmitt (Austria)
Yucheng Shi (China)
Ayako Tahara (Japan)
Maya Tal (Israel)
German Tcakulov (Russia)
Kei Tojo (Japan)
Manuel Vioque-Judde (France)
Shuhan Wang (China)
Tung Ou Yang (Taiwan)
Yuri Yoon (South Korea)
Paula Zarzo (Spain)
Lan Zhang (China)
Qiyun Zhao (China)
Zhanbo Zheng (China)
Sarina Zickgraf (Germany)

Open to young international musicians, aged 17 to 35 who are ready to launch an international career, the 1st prize winner will receive €10,000 – and a number of important debut concert and recording invitations.

The 2018 viola competition jury will comprise: Vladimir Bukač, Nicholas Cords, Nobuko Imai, Garth Knox, Thomas Riebl, Maxim Rysanov and Geraldine Walther.

Previous ARD competition category prize winners include: Christian Tetzlaff, Jessye Norman, Natalia Gutman, Christoph Eschenbach, Mitsuko Uchida, Yuri Bashmet, Igor Ozim, Dora Schwarzberg – and VC Artists Bomsori Kim and Sarah Christian.

As the ARD competition’s official 2018 international media partner, The Violin Channel will be providing exclusive rolling-coverage – live from the venue.