Candidates Announced for Inaugural 2017 Bartok World Competition

The 65 opening round candidates for the 2017 inaugural Bartok World Competition & Festival – International Violin Competition have been announced

The 65 opening round candidates for the 2017 inaugural Bartok World Competition & Festival – International Violin Competition have today been announced – to be held in Budapest, Hungary from September 10th to 17th.

The 2017 competitors are:

• Satoka Abo (Japan)
• Heejeon Ahn (South Korea)
• Nikita Akulov (Russia)
• Takamori Arai (Japan)
• Elvina Sung-Eun Auh (South Korea)
• Joshua Brown (US)
• Hannah Cho (US)
• Maria Diatchenko (Italy)
• Arianna Dotto (Italy)
• Luosha Fang (China)
• Maria Florea (Spain)
• Akiyo Fujiwara (Japan)
• Ioana Cristina Goicea (Romania)
• Shucong He (China)
• Ho Khanh Van Hoang (Vietnam)
• Gabor Homoki (Hungary)
• Mayuko Ishigami (Japan)
• Anne-Marie Johnson (Australia)
• Usha Kapor (US)
• Tair Khisambeev (Russia)
• Jiyoung Kim (South Korea)
• Yoerae Kim (South Korea)
• Chisa Kitagawa (Japan)
• Alina Kobialka (US)
• Nicolette Kocsardy (Hungary)
• Marta Kowalczyk (Poland)
• Bálint Kruppa (Hungary)
• Ágnes Langer (Hungary)
• Ju-Ni Lee (Switzerland)
• Shannon Lee (US)
• Young June Lee (South Korea)
• Younghyun Lee (South Korea)
• Francisco Lima Santos (Portugal)
• Haoli Lin (China)
• Alexandra Lomeiko (New Zealand)
• Irène Martin (France)
• Elias David Moncado (Germany)
• Shoko Murakami (Japan)
• Yayoi Nakajima (Japan)
• László Nyári (Hungary)
• Megumi Okaya (Japan)
• Risako Oshima (Japan)
• Eszter Osztrosits (Hungary)
• Éva Osztrosits (Hungary)
• Andrey Pashkevich (Russia)
• Alfredo Reyes Logounova (Mexico)
• Reika Sakamoto (Japan)
• Arsenis Selalmazidis (Greece)
• Shin Sihan (Holland)
• Maria Slawek (Poland)
• Dmitry Smirnov (Russia)
• Cosima Soulez Lariviere (France)
• Una Stanic (Croatia)
• Louisa Staples (UK)
• Naoko Tajima (Japan)
• Ririko Takagi (Japan)
• Anna Tanaka (Japan)
• Mai Tategami (Japan)
• Stephen Tavani`(US)
• James Thompson (US)
• Oszkár Varga (Hungary)
• Eimi Wakui (Japan)
• Minjia Xu (China)
• Andi Zhang (China)
• Galiya Zharova (Kazakhstan)

Open to candidates of any nationality aged 30 years or younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €22000 (US $24,000) – plus a number of important performance and recording opportunities.

The 2017 jury will comprise: Salvatore Accardo, Baráti Kristóf, Kelemen Barnabás, Qian Zhou, Takashi Shimizu, Joel Smirnoff, Szabadi Vilmos, Krzysztof Wegrzyn and Ivan Zenaty.