The 54 violin and 53 cello candidates have today been announced for the 2016 George Enescu International Music Competition - to be held in Bucharest, Romania from September 3rd to 25th, 2016.
This year’s 54 violin competitors are:
- Miroslav Ambroš
- Yunfei Bai
- Gun Baik
- Hyun Cho Ga
- Brigid Coleridge
- Simina Croitoru
- Adrian Dima
- Dan-Iulian Druțac
- Sara Julia Etelävuori
- Henry Flory
- Yume Fujise
- Anna Göckel
- Romuald Grimbert-Barré
- Yuna (Yoo Na) Ha
- Miu Hirai
- Felicity James
- Dasol Jeong
- Liubov Kalmykova
- Gyehee Kim
- Jaewon Kim
- Hye Jin Kim
- Donghyun Kim
- Sojeong Kim
- Daniel Kogan
- Barbora Kolarova
- Alexandra Lomeiko
- Luke Hsu
- Tikhon Lukiyanenko
- Sergey Maiboroda
- Ionel Manciu
- Markiyan Melnychenko
- Isabell Mengler
- Yasuka Morizono
- Samuel Nebyu
- Jana Ozolina
- Sungmi Park
- Sergey Pospelov
- Oleksandr Pushkarenko
- Yejin Roh
- Radu Ropotan
- Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux
- Valentin Șerban
- Haruna Shinoyama
- Andrei Stanciu
- Alican Süner
- Sunny Seonee Tae
- Taejun Park
- Roma Tic
- Diana-Maria Turcu
- Kapoor Usha
- Jiman Wee
- Yezu Woo
- Hwapyung Yoo
- Philip Zuckerman
- Pierre Frapier
- Ioana Christina Goicea
- Erzhan Kulibaev
- Nagao Haruka
- Eri Masaoka
- Elly Suh
- Mai Suzuki
- Eimi Wakui
This year's 53 cello competitors are:
- Jamal Aliyev
- Beata Antikainen
- Daniel Arias
- Sevak Avanesyan
- Sophia Bacelar
- Ausländer Basile
- Michal Beck
- Yoon-Kyung Cho
- Elia Cohen Weissert
- Natalia Costiuc
- Alejandra Díaz
- Lee Dong-Yeol
- Anastasia Feruleva
- Junko Fujii
- Zlatomir Fung
- Markus Hallikainen
- Michael Heupel
- Makio Horie
- Woochan Jeong
- Nam Jeongheon
- Ayano Kamimura
- Stanislas Kim
- Bumjun Kim
- Anastasia Kobekina
- Anna Koshkina
- Atanas Krastev
- Benjamin Lai
- Sujin Lee
- Han Lee
- Kyungjun Lee
- Giljae Lee
- Kang-Hyun Lee
- Minjin Lee
- Georgiy Lomakov
- Constantin Macherel
- Chan Heung Min
- Aleksandra Perlova
- Václav Petr
- Danila Popov
- Aldangor Rabbani
- Noemie Raymond-Friset
- Florian Schmidt-Bartha
- Minje Song
- Endre Stankowsky
- Lukas Stasevskij
- Ion Storojenco
- Park Sung-Geun
- Tavi Ungerleider
- Gabriel Ureña Hevia
- Volodia Van Keulen
- Tian Xie
- Yoonha Yi
- Naduo Zhang
The 2016 category winners will receive 15,000 EUR (US $17,000) plus a number of important international performance invitations.
This year's jury includes violinists Pierre Amoyal and Silvia Marcovici, cellists Natalia Gutman, David Geringas and Arto Noras - and pianists Peter Donohoe, Dana Borșan and Andrei Pisarev.
Previous major prize winners include: Silvia Marcovici, Philip Hirshchhorn, Alexandru Tomescu and Valery Sokolov - and VC Young Artists Alexandra Conunova & Fedor Rudin.
