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2021 INTERNATIONAL JASCHA HEIFETZ COMPETITION FOR VIOLINISTS

SEMI-FINAL ROUND

LIVE FROM VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

TUESDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 5:00 AM  Yoshie Okura (Japan)
      • 5:29 AM  Mayu Ozeki (Japan)
      • 5:48 AM   Pauline Van Der Rest (Belgium)
      • 6:10 AM  Saulė Buikaitė (Lithuania)
      • 6:33 AM   Leonard Toschev (Germany)
      • 6:50 AM  Qingzhu Weng (China)

• • • • 8:00 AM  Amia Janicki (Switzerland)
      • 8:22 AM  Lorenz Karls (Sweden)
      • 8:38 AM  Giuseppe Gibboni (Italy)
      • 9:00 AM  Marija Pranskutė (Lithuania)
      • 9:25 AM  Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis (Latvia)

• • • • 10:30 AM  Manon Galy (France)
      • 10:55 AM  Jackie Tso (United States)
      • 11:19 AM  Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev (Azerbaijan/Turkey)
      • 11:42 AM  Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine)
      • 12:00 PM  Jason Moon (United States)
      • 12:20 PM  Javier Comesaña (Spain)

 

OPENING ROUND

MONDAY 18TH JANUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 7:00 AM  Yoshie Okura (Japan)
      • 7:22 AM  Mayu Ozeki (Japan)
      • 7:40 AM  Ugnė Katinskaitė (Lithuania)
      • 7:57 AM  Pauline Van Der Rest (Belgium)
      • 8:15 AM  Kristina Georgieva (Bulgaria)
      • 8:30 AM  Saulė Buikaitė (Lithuania)
      • 8:47 AM  Leonard Toschev (Germany)
      • 9:05 AM  Daniil Bulayev (Latvia)
      • 9:24 AM  Seonhye Song (Germany)
      • 9:42 AM  Roman Kholmatov (Ukraine)

 

MONDAY 18TH JANUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 11:00 AM  Qingzhu Weng (China)
      • 11:16 AM  Amia Janicki (Switzerland)
      • 11:32 AM  Lisa-Maria Sekine (Austria)

 

MONDAY 18TH JANUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 11:32 AM  Lisa-Maria Sekine (Austria)
      • 11:47 AM  Jingzhi Zhang (China)
      • 12:05 PM  Lorenz Karls (Sweden)
      • 12:18 PM  Mimi Jung (United States)
      • 12:42 PM  Miri Kim (South Korea)
      • 12:58 PM  Giuseppe Gibboni (Italy)

 

TUESDAY 19TH JANUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 6:00 AM  Haruna Shinoyama (Austria)
      • 6:17 AM  VC Young Artist Anna Lee (United States)
      • 6:37 AM  Kamilia Boris (Lithuania)
      • 6:50 AM  Marija Pranskutė (Lithuania)
      • 7:00 AM  Pijus Česaitis (Lithuania)
      • 7:15 AM  Margarita Pavlova (Russia)
      • 7:30 AM  Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis (Latvia)
      • 7:45 AM  Arina Zelenina (Russia)
      • 8:00 AM  Manon Galy (France)
      • 8:20 AM  Oukalin Yin (China)

 

TUESDAY 19TH JANUARY 2021 (EST)

 

• • • • 9:30 AM    Jackie Tso (United States)
      • 9:48 AM    Elvin Hoxha Ganiyev (Azerbaijan/Turkey)
      • 10:05 AM  Yoko Ishikura (Japan)
      • 10:25 AM  Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine)
      • 10:42 AM  Tsukushi Sasaki (Japan)
      • 11:00 AM  Ririko Noborisaka (Japan)
      • 11:15 AM  Sofiya Vnukova (Russia)
      • 11:32 AM  Jason Moon (United States)
      • 11:50 AM  Javier Comesaña (Spain)
      • 12:05 PM  Julian Walder (Austria)
      • 12:20 PM  Enrique Rodrigues (Canada)

 

Open to violinists of any nationality who is 26 years of age or under, the competition will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania from the 19th to the 25th of February, 2021.

The first prize winner will receive €10,000.

The 2021 jury will comprise of Gidon Kremer, Isabelle Van Keulen, Sergej Krylov, Rūta Lipinaitytė, Svetlana Makarova, and Rusnė Mataitytė.

Previous major prize winners include: VC Young Artists Dmytro Udovychenko and Rennosuke Fukuda.