Competitor Order Announced for Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition

The opening round competitor order for the 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, to be held in Brussels from the 4th-30th May, has today been announced - including 6 VC 'Young Artists'.

Monday May 4th - 3pm Session

• Luke Hsu
• Lev Solodovnikov
• William Ching‐Yi Wei
• Romuald Grimbert‐Barré
• Kim Woo Hyung
• Suho Ryosuke

Monday May 4th – 8pm Session

• VC 'Young Artist' Tobias Feldmann
• Markiyan Melnychenko
• Benjamin Baker
• Thomas Reif
• Ren Jian

Tuesday May 5th – 3pm Session

• VC 'Young Artist' Richard Lin
• Suzuki Mai
• VC 'Young Artist' Hrachya Avanesyan
• Lee Marisol
• VC 'Young Artist' Suyeon Kang
• Tategami Mai

Tuesday May 5th – 8pm Session

• Lee Ju‐Ni
• Kiyonaga Aya
• Park Jae Jun
• Mohri Fumika
• Kenneth Renshaw

Wednesday May 6th – 3pm Session

• Bomsori Kim
• Eunice Kim
• Guillaume Chilemme
• Vladyslava Luchenko
• Anna Savkina

Wednesday May 6th – 8pm Session

• Mimi Jung
• Yoo Hwa‐pyung
• Fabiola Kim
• Wang Xiao
• Yang Yoon

Thursday May 7th – 3pm Session

• He Fangyue
• Zhu Lifan
• Park Sungmi
• Bae Wonhee
• Lee Myung‐Eun

Thursday May 7th – 8pm Session

• VC 'Young Artist' William Hagen
• Galiya Zharova
• Elly Suh
• Matsuyama Michiru
• Karen Kido

Friday May 8th – 3pm Session

• Huang Xika
• Francisco Garcia‐Fullana
• Li Chi
• Kurokawa Yu
• Ji Won Song

Friday May 8th – 8pm Session

• Lee Ji Yoon
• Brendan Shea
• Um Danbi
• Oleksii Semenenko
• Sirena Huang

Saturday May 9th – 3pm Session

• Fien Van den Fonteyne
• Lim Ji Young
• Solenne Païdassi
• Rosanne Philippens
• Jiang Yiliang

Saturday May 9th – 8pm Session

• George Tudorache
• Kristi Gjezi
• Michelle Ross
• Wang Momo
• VC 'Young Artist' Stephen Waarts

Of the 62 1st round candidates, 24 will be selected to progress to the Semi-Final Stage.

Widely respected as one of the most prestigious and coveted classical music accolades, the 1st prize winner will receive 25,000 Euro (USD$31,000), a CD recording, a number of international concert engagements and the 3 year use of the ‘Huggins’ Stradivarius – on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Live webstreaming of all rounds will be available.

The Violin Channel will be providing live rolling coverage of this year's event – direct from the venues.

PICTURED: 2015 1st Round Candidates, VC 'Young Artists' Stephen Waarts, William Hagen and Richard Lin.

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