The 40 candidates have today been announced for the 2016 Sendai International Violin Competition, to be held in Sendai, Japan from May 21st to June 5th - including VC 'Young Artist' Yoo Jin Jang.
This year’s competitors are:
- VC ‘Young Artist’ Yoo Jin Yang (25, South Korea)
- Ribon Aida (25, Japan)
- Mask Akama (22, Japan)
- Nikita Akulov (25, Russia)
- Naoka Aoki (23, Japan)
- Mizuki Chiba (20, Japan)
- Fuki Fujie (25, Japan)
- Yuichiro Fukuda (25, Japan)
- Yoko Ishikura (19, Japan)
- Meruert Karmenova (22, Kazakhstan)
- Karen Kido (21, Japan)
- Damin Kim (25, South Korea)
- Stephen Kim (20, United States)
- Honoka Kishimoto (21, Japan)
- Daniil Kogan (22, Canada/Russia)
- Ryota Kuratomi (24, Japan)
- Kevin Lin (22, Taiwan/United States)
- Siena Matsuoka (22, Japan)
- Daichi Nakamura (25, Japan)
- Kaoru Oe (22, Japan)
- Kyoto Ogawa (23, Japan)
- Seiji Okamotao (21, Japan)
- Yurina Otsuka (26, Japan)
- Sungmi Park (24, South Korea)
- Yue Qian (20, China)
- Anna Savkina (21, Russia)
- Julie Svecena (21, Czech Republic)
- Kelly Talim (20, United States)
- Yabing Tan (25, China)
- Gabriel Tchalik (26, France)
- Mayu Tomotaki (20, Japan)
- Natsumi Tsuboi (22, Japan)
- Eimi Wakui (23, Japan)
- Momo Wong (21, Japan/United States)
- Harming Xie (26, China)
- Minami Yoshida (17, Japan)
- Arata Yumi (24, Japan)
- Yang Zhang (25, China)
