The 24 candidates have today been announced for the 2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition - to be held in Odense, Denmark from April 16th to 22nd. This year’s competitors are:

• Wonhee Bae (29, South Korea)
• Amalie Elmark (23, Denmark)
• Mohamed Hiber (20, France)
• Luke Hsu (25, USA)
• Liubov Kalymkova (24, Russia)
• Karen Kido (21, Japan)
• Woo Hyung Kim (24, South Korea)
• Ji Yoon Lee (23, South Korea)
• Wooil Lee (26, South Korea)
• Fanglei Liu (24, China)
• Alexandra Lomeiko (24, New Zealand)
• Grace Park (29, United States)
• Soo-Hyun Park (27, South Korea)
• Mari Poll (28, Estonia)
• Liya Petrova (25, Bulgaria)
• Arsenis Selalmazidis (25, Greece)
• Orest Smovzh (25, Ukraine)
• Ji Won Song (23, South Korea)
• Karen Su (17, USA)
• Airi Suzuki (26, Japan)
• Yun Tang (23, China)
• Suliman Tekalli (28, USA)
• Natsumi Tsuboi (22, Japan)
• Michiko Yamada (23, UK)