Violin & Viola Candidates Announced for Berlin's 2019 Max Rostal Competition

The 17 violin and 17 viola candidates have been announced for the 2019 Max Rostal International Competition

The 17 violin and 17 viola candidates have this week been announced for the 2019 Max Rostal International Competition - to be held at the Berlin University of the Arts from the 24th to the 31st of March.

The 2019 violin candidates are:

• Daniel Cho
• Wonbeen Chung
• Stefano Farulli
• Leonard Fu
• Rika Ikemura
• Alexander Won-Ho Kim
• Hye Jin Kim
• Momoko Konishi
• Grim Kwon
• Wooil Lee
• Kyung Eun Grace Lee
• Kyumin Park
• Jinsu Park
• Johanna Pichimair
• Yejin Roh
• Hani Song
• Hwapyung Yoo

The 2019 viola candidates are:

• Tomohiro Arita
• Karolina Errera
• Yitong Guo
• Jinhwa Hong
• Taeksun Hwang
• Gueli Kim
• MinGwan Kim
• SengYun Kim
• Sung Jin Lee
• Sangyoon Lee
• Seohyun Moon
• Tobias Reifland
• Jannis Rieke
• Christopher Rogers-Beadle
• Friedemann Slenczka
• Larivière Sào Soulez
• Nicholas Algot Swensen

The 1st prize winner of each category will receive €7,000.

The 2019 jury will comprise: Tomoko Akasaka, Nora Chastain, Gérard Caussé, Roberto Diaz, David Geringas, Philippe Graffin, Gerhard Schulz and Hagai Shaham.