Competitors Announced for 2016 Wieniawski Competition - Including 3 VC ‘Young Artists’

The opening round candidates have been announced for the 2016 Wieniawski International Violin Competition - including 3 VC ‘Young Artists’

The 52 opening round candidates have today been announced for the 2016 Wieniawski International Violin Competition, to be held in Poznań, Poland from October 8th to 23rd, 2016 - including VC ‘Young Artists’ Bomsori Kim, Richard Lin & Erzhan Kulibaev.

The 2016 competitors are:

• VC ‘Young Artist’ Bomsori Kim (Korea)
• VC ‘Young Artist’ Richard Lin (Taiwan/USA)
• VC ‘Young Artist’ Erzhan Kulibaev (Kazakhstan)
• Hanna Asieieva (Ukraine)
• Wonhee Bae (Korea)
• Marie Bégin (Canada)
• Zufina Bekmoldinova (Kazakhstan)
• Christina Brabetz (Germany)
• Maciej Burdzy (Poland)
• Jung Min Choi (Korea)
• Dziadek Weronika (Poland)
• Gregoire Girard (France)
• Semion Gurevich (Russia)
• Amalia Hall (New Zeland)
• Mone Hattori (Japan)
• Luke Hsu (USA)
• Florin Silvin Iliescu (Germany/Romania)
• Yiliang Jiang(China)
• Kim Hye-Jin (Korea)
• Kitada Chihiro (Japan)
• Celina Kotz (Poland)
• Maria Kouznetsova (France)
• Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia/Switzerland)
• Stepan Lavrov (Russia)
• Marisol Lee  (Korea)
• Christine Lim (USA/Korea)
• Kevin Lin (USA)
• Vera Lopatina (Russia)
• Robert Łaguniak (Poland)
• Anna Malesza (Poland)
• Amelia Maszońska (Poland)
• Jan Mazur (Poland)
• Rustem Monasypov (Russia)
• Haruka Nagao (Japan)
• Yukino Nakamura (Japan)
• Shuichi Okada (Japan)
• Seiji Okamoto (Japan)
• Kamran Omarli (Azerbaijan)
• Anna Orlik (Poland)
• Grace Park (United States)
• Eva Rabchewska (Ukraine)
• Hadar Rimon (Israeli)
• Xingzhou Rong(China)
• Alexis Roussine (France)
• Arsenis Selalmazidis (Russia/Greece)
• Ryosuke Suho (Japan)
• Maja Syrnicka (Poland)
• Veriko Tchumberidze (Georgia)
• Shiori Terauchi (Japan)
• Yuna Toki (Japan)
• Maria Włoszczowska (Poland)
• Vasyl Zatsikha (Ukraine)

Open to violinists of any nationality, born between 1986 and 2000, the 1st prize winner will receive €30,000 (US $33,000).

The 2016 jury will include: Krzysztof Penderecki (Honorary Chairman), Maxim Vengerov (Chairman) and Konstanty Andrzej Kulka – with further details to be announced.

Previous prize winners include luminaries Ginette Neveu, David Oistrakh, Henry Temianka, Boris Goldstein, Ida Haendel, Igor Oistrakh.

PICTURED: 2016 Wieniawski International Violin Competition competitor, VC ‘Young Artist’ Bomsori Kim from South Korea