Finalists Announced at Hungary's Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition

The category Finalists have been announced at the 2019 Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition

The category Finalists have today been announced at the 2019 Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition  – in Budapest, Hungary.

The 9 to 12-year-old category Finalists are:

• Defne Güngör (10, Turkey)
• Gáspár Kelemen (11, Hungary)
• Yume Tomita (11, Japan/United Kingdom)

The 13 to 15-year-old category Finalists are:

• Doruk Deniz Aksu (15, Turkey)
• Benedetta Fiechter (14, Italy)
• Julianna Gaál (15, Hungary)
• Mariam Obolashvili (15, Georgia)
• Evan Pyne (15, Canada)

The 16 to 18-year-old category Finalists are:

• Doga Altınok (18, Russia)
• Chien Chin (18, China)
• Ahmet Eren (16, Turkey)
• Sára Kovács (16, Hungary)

Open to international violinists between the ages of 9 and 18 years old, the 1st prize winner in this year's senior category will receive €1000.

The 2019 jury comprises: Shlomo Mintz (President), Cihat Aşkın, Herbert Greenberg, Lutsia Ibragimov, Qian Zhou and Éva Ácsné Szily.

The final round of this year's competition will be streamed live on The Violin Channel.