China International Music Competition Announces Preliminary Competitors

The competition is being held from November 3-13, 2023 and will be streamed live on The Violin Channel

China International Music Competition, alternatively known as the Global Music Education League Violin Competition (GMEL), officially announced the participants who have advanced into the Preliminary Round to compete in November, in Beijing.

The GMEL Violin Competition received applications from 13 countries and regions around the world, including China, Russia, the United States, Canada, Kazakhstan, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Hungary, Italy, and Latvia.

On November 3, the opening ceremony was held in the Concert Hall of China Conservatory of Music. In the opening ceremony, 19 players took the stage to determine the order of the preliminary performances.

The 19 players and order of appearances are:

1. Angela Sin Ying Chan

2. Yiming Liu

3. Chaowen Luo

4. Juchao Zhao

5. Noelle Naito

6. He Xu

7. Yurina Arai

8. Elli Choi

9. Leonard Toschev

10. Tianren Xie

11. SooBeen Lee

12. Muyan Yang

13.Elizaveta Glazunova

14. Joshua Brown

15. Xiyue Wu

16. Jung Min Choi

17. Yukari Ohno

18. Audrey Park

19. Risa Hokamura

12 competitors will then advance to the Semifinal Round and perform a recital of no more than 70 minutes, including a complete Beethoven sonata, a Romantic Period sonata, a medium virtuoso piece, and a Rondo by Sicong Ma.

At the First Phase of the Final Round, 6 violinists will be selected to play a Mozart violin concerto, after which, the competition will move from the Concert Hall of China Conservatory of Music to the National Center for the Performing Arts, and the three finalists will play one violin concerto of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Sibelius or Tchaikovsky, to contend for the color of their medals.

The jury for the competition will comprise Bin Huang (Chairman), Giovanni Angeleri, Friedemann Eichhorn, Lorenz Nasturica-Herschcowici, Mariusz Patyra, Lucie Robert, Joel Smirnoff, Weidong Tong, and Pavel Vernikov.

The First Prize comprises USD $100,000, a Gold Medal, and three years of concert tours, while the Second Prize equals USD $ 65,000. The Third Prize winner will receive USD $ 30,000 and a Jade Medal. The remaining three non-medal finalists will each receive USD $ 5,000 each and a Diploma.