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)
Open to international violists of all ages, the 1st prize winner will receive a fine bow loan.
The 2019 jury will comprise: Alexander Akimov, Yury Bondarev and Friedemann Hecker.
