Candidates Announced for the Inaugural 2018 Harbin International Violin Competition

The opening round violin candidates have been announced for 2018 International Music Competition Harbin

The 28 violin candidates have been announced for the inaugural 2018 International Music Competition Harbin – to be held at the Harbin Conservatory of Music, in China from the 12th–26th January, 2018.

The 2018 opening round participants are:

• Serin Baek (South Korea, 21)
• Yun Fei Bai (China, 24)
• Gun Baik (South Korea, 26)
• Angela Sin Ying Chan (Hong Kong, 20)
• Qun Dai (China, 26)
• Shu Cong He (China, 25)
• Meruert Karmenova (Kazakhstan, 24)
• Hahnsol Kim (USA, 25)
• Jee Won Kim (South Korea, 27)
• Aleksandr Kostrikin (Russia, 28)
• Stepan Lavrov (Russia, 30)
• Young June Lee (South Korea, 27)
• Fang Lei Liu (China, 26)
• Petr Lundstrem (Russia, 24)
• Tian Long Mai (China, 23)
• Pei Wen Ni (China, 28)
• Kyumin Park (South Korea, 21)
• Yejin Roh (South Korea, 25)
• Dmitry Smirnov (Russia, 23)
• Ryosuke Suho (Japan, 22)
• Elena Tarosyan (Russia, 24)
• Julia Turnovsky (Austria, 27)
• Jia Zhi Wang (China, 27)
• Pin Hua Zeng (China, 21)
• An Di Zhang (China, 25)
• Hao Ya Zhang (China, 22)
• Leonid Zheleznyi (Russia, 23)
• Nancy Zhou (USA, 25)

Open to international violinists, aged between 20 and 34, the 1st prize winner will receive US $50,000.

The 2018 jury will comprise: Augustin Dumay, Ilya Kaler, Mihaela Martin, Kurt Sassmannshaus, Vera Tsu, Viktor Tretiyakov, Maxim Fedotov, Danan Liang and Alissa Margulis.