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Candidates Announced for Japan's Sendai International Violin Competition
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The 38 candidates have been announced for the 2019 Sendai International Violin Competition
The 38 candidates have today been announced for the 2019 Sendai International Violin Competition – to be held in Sendai, Japan from the 15th to the 30th of June, 2019.
The 38 opening round candidates are:
- Rio Arai (20, (Japan)
- Yurina Arai (24, (Japan)
- Jiwon Choi (20, Korea)
- Isabelle Ai Durrenberger (20, United States)
- Kaori Furusawa (20, Japan)
- Yuki Ishihara (25, Japan)
- Mimi Jung (24, United States)
- Karen Kido (24, Japan)
- Honoka Kishimoto (24, Japan)
- Chihiro Kitada (22, Japan)
- Donghwi Ko (22, Korea)
- Orin Laursen (26, United States)
- Lee Chi (26, Taiwan)
- Shannon Lee (26, Canada)
- Xinwen Liang (12, China)
- Dongmin Lim (17, Korea)
- Charlie Lovell-Jones (20, United Kingdom)
- Jiaqi Lu (21, China)
- Hao Miao (25, China)
- Mariko Miwa (25, Japan)
- Elias David Moncado (18, Germany)
- Ryuto Murao (21, Japan)
- Andrea Obiso (24, Italy)
- Alfredo Reyes Logounova (27, Mexico)
- Alexis Roussine (23, France/Russia)
- Kiarra Saito-Beckman (20, United States)
- Felicitas Schiffner (21, Germany)
- Tomotaka Seki (20, Japan)
- Orest Smovzh (27, Ukraine)
- Grigorii Tadtaev (26, Russia)
- Yuriko Takemoto (20, Japan)
- Kelly Talim (23, United States)
- James Kendell Thompson (25, United States)
- Mayu Tomotaki (23, Japan)
- Julia Turnovsky (28, Austria)
- Jiman Wee (26, Korea)
- Weilu Zhang (25, China)
- Yingchen Zhang (26, China)
Open to international violinists 28 years and younger, the 1st prize winner will receive JPY 3,000,000 (USD $27,000), a CD recording – plus a number of important orchestral and festival performance opportunities.
The 2019 jury will comprise: Yuzuko Horigome (Chairman), Gidon Kremer, Masafumi Hori, Boris Belkin, Olivier Charlier, Rodney Friend, Tomoko Kato, Younguck Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Saeka Matsuyama, Joel Smirnoff and Isabelle Van Keulen.
Previous 1st prize winners include: VC Young Artists Richard Lin and Yoo Jin Jang.
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