Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition Announces Participants

50 violinists qualified for the 10th edition, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from September 17-25, 2022

The Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition is open to any violinists born after September 25, 1991, who are determined to pursue an international career. The competition's pre-selection jury has selected 50 candidates who will compete in the next round from September 17-19, 2022.

They are, in alphabetical order:

1. Lidamari Ahonen
2. Maria Andreeva
3. Yurina Arai
4. Ava Bahari
5. Kristina Besman
6. Claire Bourg
7. Zachary Brandon
8. Tong Chen
9. Elli Choi
10. Wonbeen Chung
11. Fanny Fheodoroff
12. Murasaki Fukuda
13. Laura Handler
14. Kingston Ho
15. Luka Ispir
16. Miray Ito
17. Gyehee Kim
18. Daniel Kogan
19. Anna Lee
20. Catherina Lee
21. Jiyoon Lee
22. Miyeon Lee
23. Tianyou Ma
24. Eri Masaoka
25. Seina Matsuoka
26. Jason Moon
27. Raphael Nussbaumer
28. Yukari Ohno
29. Kyumin Park
30. Lilia Pocitari
31. Yamen Saadi
32. Aoi Saito
33. Reika Sakamoto
34. Sant’Anna e Silva Guido
35. Tomotaka Seki
36. Dimitry Serebrennikov
37. Michael Shaham
38. Dongyoung Jake Shim
39. Antonia Schöner
40. Arseniya Sibileva
41. Yuriko Takemoto
42. Belle Ting
43. Julian Walder
44. Xiaozhuo Wang
45. Jaewon Wee
46. Rino Yoshimoto
47. Arata Yumi
48. Cernos Rok Zaeletel
49. Galiya Zharova
50. Leonid Zhelezny

The second round with 18 candidates will compete in the Semi-Finals on September 20-22. The first round of Finals with six finalists will be on September 23 and the Gala Finals, with the last three competitors, will be held on September 25. The last three finalists will play with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Joel.

Prize money of €20,000, 15,000, 10,000, 7,000, 6,000, 5,000 will go to first through sixth place respectively.

The first prize winner will receive several concert engagements including with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Nizhny Novgorod State Philharmonic, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.

Additionally, the first prize includes a CD recording on NAXOS and a tour of Asia in May 2023 with World Culture Networks (WNC). We recently talked to Naxos Founder and head, Klaus Heymann, on the collaboration with the Kreisler Violin Competition, his thoughts on starting a career as a young musician, and the state of the classical music industry.

Previous major prize winners include VC Artists William Hagen, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, and Sergey Khachatryan.