Candidates Announced for China’s 2017 Zhuhai International Mozart Violin Competition

The 61 candidates have been announced for the 2017 2nd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians

The 61 candidates have been announced for the 2017 2nd Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians – to be held in Zhuhai, China from the 12th to the 24th of September, 2017.

Presented by the University of Mozarteum Salzburg, the competition will be hosted in 3 age categories – with the Senior 1st prize winner to receive US $30,000.

The 2017 violin candidates are:

Group A - 12 Years and Under

• Jiachen Cao (11, China)
• Maximus Chia (10, Singapore)
• Chloe Chua (10, Singapore)
• Yejin Kim (11, South Korea)
• Junxi Li (11, China)
• Yaokun Li (11, China)
• Adam Michael Liley (12, Poland/United Kingdom)
• Darya List (12, Germany)
• Clara Shen (12, Germany)
• Mingxuan Su (12, China)
• Jingfei Wang (11, China)
• Jingyi Wang (11, China)
• Shihan Wang (12, China)
• Xiaozhuo Wang (10, China)
• Jinan Woo (10, South Korea)
• Muyang Wu (11, China)
• Jingyun Zhang (12, China)

Group B - 13 to 16 Years Old

• Sung-Chi Chang (16, Taiwan)
• Tzu-Chieh Chang (16, Taiwan)
• Fengwan Chen (15, China)
• María Dueñas (14, Spain)
• Marley Warner Erickson (14, United States)
• Changling Fan (15, China)
• Antoni Ingielewicz (16, Poland)
• Miyu Kitsuwa (16, Japan)
• Chaowen Luo (16, China)
• Hongfei Lyu (16, China)
• Erik Zhen Mayr (16, Austria)
• Zixuan Shen (15, China)
• Sophia Su (16, USA/Macau)
• Jie Wan (16, China)
• Jingran Wang (15, China)
• Kaixiang Wang (15, China)
• Ruoyu Wang (13, China)
• Ziwen Wang (14, China)
• Xinyi Zhang (16, Belgium)
• Xunyue Zhang (13, China)
• Zihan Zhang (15, China)
• Sirui Zhou (15, China)

Group C - 17 to 23 Years Old

• Zachary Brandon (18, United States)
• Tzu-Chieh Chang (16, Taiwan)
• Mizuki Chiba (21, Japan)
• Yun Jae Choi (23, South Korea)
• Larissa Ina Cidlinsky (22, Germany)
• Kejun Guo (18, China)
• Laura Katherina Handler (18, Germany)
• Yiying Jiang (19, China)
• Youjin Kim (18, South Korea)
• Oleksandr Korniev (23, Ukraine)
• Hao Li (18, China)
• Ruifeng Lin (17, China)
• Zixiang Lin (18, China)
• Yiming Liu (17, China)
• Tianlong Mai (22, China)
• Carla-Inés Marrero Martínez (22, Spain)
• Mariko Miyazaki (21, Japan)
• Gabriel Ng (22, Singapore)
• Yiqi Sun (22, China)
• Naoko Tajima (21, Japan)
• Yuliia Van (21, Ukraine)
• Wendi Wang (19, China)

The 2017 jury will comprise: Paul Roczek (Artistic Director), Friedemann Eichhorn (Jury Chair), Shmuel Ashkenasi, Harald Eggebrecht, Ani Schnarch, Akiko Tatsumi, Weidong Tong and Lina Yu.

PICTURED: 2015 Zhuhai International Mozart Competition 13-16 Age Category Winner, Ziyu He from China