The 36 opening round candidates have been announced at the 2018 Mirecourt International Violin Competition - to be held in Mirecourt, France from the 10th to the 16th of November.
The 2018 opening round candidates are:
- Bilal Alnemr (22, Siria)
- Clara Buijs (23, France)
- Shan-Hsin Chang (24, Taiwan)
- Matthew Chin (25, Hong Kong)
- Matteo Cimatti (18, Italy)
- Amelia Dziedzic (21, Poland)
- Camille Garin (19, France)
- Sophie Guille Des Buttes (20, France)
- Leon Haffner (20, France)
- Sophia Heinz (24, Germany/Australia)
- Maho Irie (25, Japan)
- Iora Kama (23, Japan)
- Shusaku Kato (24, Japan)
- Roman Kholmatov (24, Ukraine)
- Hanna Kim (19, South Korea)
- Minchae Kim (23, South Korea)
- Mun Jeong Kim (24, South Korea)
- Alexandra Lecocq (20, France)
- Sue-Anne Lee (18, France/South Korea)
- Carolin Lindner (19, Germany)
- Ray Liu (25, China)
- Anastassiya Martynova (21, Kazakstan)
- Clara Mesple (21, France)
- Floriane Naboulet (18, France)
- Aiko Okamura (25, Japan)
- Abel Puustinen (22, Finland)
- Reika Sato (19, Japan)
- Iris Scialom (17, France)
- Valentin Seignez-Bacquet (18, France)
- Marija Strapcane (21, Latvia)
- Ashley Tong (25, United Kingdom)
- Yuilia Van (22, Ukraine)
- Claire Wells (17, United States)
- Teira Yamashita (23, Japan)
- Sofia Yatsuk (23, Ukraine)
- Viarouka Yefrasinnia (23, Belarus)
Open to international violinists aged 26 years and younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €5,000 – plus a number of important performance opportunities.
The 2018 jury comprises: Krzystof Wegrzyn (Chairman) Harald Herzl, Alissa Margulis, Petru Munteanu, Marianne Piketty, Weidong Tong and Ulf Wallin.
