Violin Semi-Finalists Announced at Hungary’s Bartok World Competition

The 12 Semi-Finalists have been announced at the 2017 Bartok World Competition & Festival International Violin Competition

The 12 Semi-Finalists have today been announced at the 2017 Bartok World Competition & Festival International Violin Competition - in Budapest, Hungary.

The 2017 Semi-Finalists are:

• Takamori Arai (26, Japan)
• Joshua Brown (17, USA)
• Arianna Dotto (27, Italy)
• Gabor Homoki (27, Hungary)
• Yoerae Kim (27, South Korea)
• Chisa Kitagawa (20, Japan)
• Ágnes Langer (25, Hungary)
• Alexandra Lomeiko (26, New Zealand)
• Arsenis Selalmazidis (27, Greece)
• Cosima Soulez Lariviere (20, France)
• Una Stanic (19, Croatia)
• Ririko Takagi (21, Japan)

Open to candidates of any nationality aged 30 years or younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €22,000 (US $24,000) – plus a number of important performance and recording opportunities.

The 2017 jury comprises: Salvatore Accardo, Baráti Kristóf, Kelemen Barnabás, Qian Zhou, Takashi Shimizu, Joel Smirnoff, Szabadi Vilmos, Krzysztof Wegrzyn and Ivan Zenaty.

PICTURED: 2017 Bartok World Competition Semi-Finalist, 17 year old violinist Joshua Brown from the United States