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Semi-Finalists Announced at Germany's Kloster Schöntal Violin Competition

August 26, 2019

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The Semi-Finalists have been announced at the 2019 Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition

The category Semi-Finalists have today been announced at the 2019 Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition – in Schöntal, Germany.

The Junior Division (14 Years and Younger) Semi-Finalists are:

Bianca Ciubancan (13, Romania/United States)
Haymon Haffner (13, Germany)
Woohee Lee (14, South Korea)
Aijia Li (14, China)
Riisa Nakahara (10, Japan)
Daimee Ng (14, Ireland)
Dragos Rusanu (13, Romania)
Haruko Shimizu (14, Japan)
Alayna Yujia Shu (13, Hong Kong/China)
Leonard Toschev (13, Germany)

The Intermediate Division (15 to 17 Years Old) Semi-Finalists are:

Marija Abdykayeva (15, Kazakhstan)
Katharina Auer (17, Austria)
Daniil Bulayev (15, Latvia)
Darwin Chang (16, Taiwan)
Sara Isabelle Ispas (15, Australia)
Nikolas Kemna (15, Germany)
Yui Ching Enoch Li (15, Hong Kong/China)
Haewon Lim (15, South Korea)
Elena Meyer (16, Germany)
Katharina Strepp (16, Germany)
Jingran Wang (17, China)

The Senior Division (18 to 20 Years Old) Semi-Finalists are:

Kanau Ariga (20, Japan)
Robert Einenkel (19, Germany)
Kejun Guo (20, China)
Pauline Herold (20, Germany)
Katarina Mrvic (19, Serbia)
Elena Schwalbe (19, Germany)
Maria Sotriffer (19, Austria)
Franziska Stemmer (19, Germany)
Maxim Tzekov (18, Austria)
Alexandra Weissbecker (18, Germany)
Raika Yamakage (19, Japan)
Lisa Yasuda (19, Japan)

Open to violinists of any nationality aged 14-20, the Senior 1st prize winner will receive €3,000.

Previous major prize winners include: VC Artists InMo Yang, Sarah Christian, Yury Revich, Igor Pikayzen, Alexander Conunova, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Rennosuke Fukuda, Ziyu He and Ioana Christina Goicea.

The 2019 jury comprises: Petru Munteanu (President), Albena Danailova, Florian Leonhard, Svetlana Makarova, Zhou Qian, J.X. Schachtner, Takashi Shimizu, Elly Suh, Florin Parvulescu and Weidong Tong.

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