Candidates Announced for China’s 2019 Zhuhai International Mozart Violin Competition

The category candidates have been announced for the 2019 Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians

The category candidates have been announced for the 2019 Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians – to be held in Zhuhai, China from the 10th to the 22nd of September.

Presented by the University of Mozarteum Salzburg, the competition will be hosted in 3 age categories – with the Senior 1st prize winner to receive US $30,000.

The 2019 violin candidates are:

Group A – 12 Years and Under

• James Birch (12, Australia)
• Xiaoru Chen (11, China)
• Corina Deng (11, Canada)
• Alana Gao (12, Australia)
• Sungwoo Lee (11, South Korea)
• Jinzhu Li (12, China)
• Jessica Ma (11, Australia)
• Stefania Pospekhina (12, Russia)
• Mengqi Qian (12, China)
• Shuoran Sun (11, China)
• Jinan Woo (12, South Korea)
• Jiale Yang (11, China)
• Shi-Xuan Yang (11, Taiwan/China)
• Mingzhe Ye (9, China)
• Hanyue Zhang (11, China)
• Aoze Zhang (11, China)
• Justine Zhang (12, Australia)
• Shaoheng Zhong (10, China)
• Jungyang Zhu (11, China)

Group B – 13 to 16 Years Old

• Zhonghan Chen (16, China)
• Yu-Chia Chiu (13, Taiwan/China)
• Brandon Du (15, United States)
• Yiyang Hou (14, China)
• Yingying Jiang (15, China)
• Yixuan Jiang (14, China)
• Anqi Lai (15, China)
• Xinwen Liang (12, China)
• Ruibing Liu (14, China)
• Runa Matsushita (13, Japan)
• Lina Nakano (14, Japan)
• Haseung Nam (13, South Korea)
• Morgane Voisin (15, Germany)
• Yumo Wang (15, China)
• Ziwen Wang (16, China)
• Piu Ying Wong (15, China)
• Muyang Wu (13, China)
• Yujia Xie (15, China)
• Jingyun Zhang (13, China)
• Xunyue Zhang (15, China)
• Jinlan Zhao (12, China)

Group C – 17 to 23 Years Old

• Clarissa Bevilacqua (17, Italy/United States)
• Tzu-Chieh Chang (18, Taiwan/China)
• Yu Chen Qing (19, United States)
• Elli Choi (17, United States)
• Anna Egholm (23, Denmark)
• Adriana Gabrian (22, Romania)
• Yiying Jiang (21, China)
• Gyurim Kwak (20, South Korea)
• Masha Lakisova (17, United States)
• Jiaqi Lu (21, China)
• Ai Nakano (17, Japan)
• Xingzhou Rong (19, China)
• Zixuan Shen (18, China)
• Haozhe Song (22, China)
• Naoko Tajima (23, Japan)
• Jacqueline Tso (22, United States)
• Chenming Wang (20, China)
• Songao Wu (21, China)
• Jiaqi Xu (17, China)
• Siqi Yu (20, China)
• Simon Zhu (18, Germany)

The 2019 jury comprises: Paul Roczek (Artistic Director), Julius Berger (Chairman), Lewis Kaplan, Boris Kuschnir, Michael Ma, Silvia Marcovici, Qian Zhou and Weidong Tong.

The Violin Channel, as the competition’s official media partner, will be providing streaming coverage direct from Zhuhai.