Candidates Announced for Dusseldorf’s Rubinstein International Viola Competition

The 41 opening round candidates have been announced for the 2019 Rubinstein International Viola Competition – to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany from the 4th to the 5th of May, 2019.

The 41 candidates are:

• Yerim An (South Korea)
• Momoko Aritomi (Japan)
• Sharon Avella Herrera (Colombia)
• Mieszko Baszczak (Poland)
• Vittorio Benaglia (Italy)
• Giulia Bombonati (Italy)
• Valentin Chiapello (France)
• Nadezhda Chumovitckaia (Russia)
• Jakob Dingstad (Norway)
• Stephanie Drach (Austria)
• Kazuki Hashimoto (Japan)
• Jannis Hoesch (Germany)
• Younho Hong (South Korea)
• Brian Isaacs (United States)
• Alexandra Ivanova (Russia)
• Gijoon Jo (South Korea)
• Annariina Jokela (Finland)
• Koji Kanada (Japan)
• Dongyeob Kang (South Korea)
• Wontae Kim (South Korea)
• Eunbit Ko (South Korea)
• Isabel Kreuzpointner (Germany)
• Mengzhen Li (China)
• Shuchen Liu (China)
• Ganna Lysenko (Ukraine)
• Johanna Maurer (Germany)
• Lazar Miletic (Serbia)
• Deokjin Oh (South Korea)
• Simona Ruisi (Italy)
• Fridolin Schöbi (Austria)
• Mk Sung (South Korea)
• Erin Louise Torres (South Africa)
• Taihei Wada (Japan)
• Yanan Wang (China)
• Yifei Wang (China)
• Wenbo Xin (China)
• Daichi Yoshimura (Japan)
• Mingyue Yu (China)
• Dan Zhang (China)
• Yishi Zhao (China)
• Ekin Özcan (Turkey)