The 36 candidates have today been announced for the 2016 inaugural Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition, to be held in Shanghai, China from August 14th to September 2nd, 2016 – including 6 VC ‘Young Artists’.
This year’s competitors are:
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Alexandra Conunova (Moldova, 28)
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Yoo Jin Jang (Korea, 26)
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Bomsori Kim (Korea, 27)
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Erzhan Kulibaev (Kazakhstan, 30)
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Zeyu Victor Li (China, 20)
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Richard Lin (United States/Taiwan, 25)
- Takamori Arai (Japan, 26)
- Yu-Ting Chen (Taiwan/China, 21)
- Sergei Dogadin (Russia, 28)
- Elvin Ganiyev (Azerbaijan, 19)
- Fangyue He (China, 29)
- Sirena Huang (United States, 22)
- Petteri Iivonen (Finland, 29)
- Yiliang Jiang (China, 20)
- Gyehee Kim (Korea, 23)
- Jee Won Kim (Korea, 26)
- Mayu Kishima (Japan, 30)
- Alina Kobialka (United States, 19)
- Fanglei Liu (United States, 25)
- Ming Liu (China, 21)
- Kyung Ji Min (Korea, 21)
- Raphaëlle Moreau (France, 20)
- Andrea Obiso (Italy, 22)
- Dongfang Ouyang (China, 26)
- Yoo Min Seo (Korea, 18)
- Ji Won Song (Korea, 24)
- Kristie Su (United States, 21)
- Yun Tang (China, 21)
- Stefan Tarara (Germany, 30)
- Boyang Tian (China, 24)
- Danbi Um (Korea, 26)
- Xiao Wang (China, 30)
- Wendi Wang (China, 18)
- Jinru Zhang (China, 20)
- Yang Zhang (China, 26)
- Stephanie Zyzak (United States, 22)
The first prize winner will receive an unprecedented US $100,000.
The 2016 jury will comprise: David Stern (Co-Chairperson) Vera Tsu Weiling (Co-Chairperson), Boris Kuschnir, David Cerone, Daniel Heifetz, Zakhar Bron, Maxim Vengerov, Martin Engstroem, Emmanuel Hondré, Elmar Oliveira, Jian Wang, Zhenshan Wang and Lina Yu.
The competition, in a landmark decision earlier this year, announced they would provide full transparency of the 2016 competition scoring process – pledging to make 100% public each of the individual jurors’ scores and comments.
The competition has been named in honour of violinist Isaac Stern – who first forged links with China in 1979.
