2nd Round Candidates Announced at Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition

The 2nd Round candidates have been announced at the 2019 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition

The 40 2nd Round candidates have today been announced at the 2019 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition – in Port Erin, on the Isle of Man.

The 2nd Round candidates are:

• Joachim Angster
• Jordan Bak
• En-Chi Cheng
• Toby Cook
• Yifei Deng
• Qian Hui Ho
• Heloise Houze
• Saki Ishida
• Dong Yeob Kang
• Seido Karasaki
• Paul Vincent Laraia
• Valerie Lassfolk
• Antonin Le Faure
• Wenguan Li
• Timothy Daniel Lin
• Yixiu Lin
• Yizilin Lliang
• Natalie Loughran
• Yuchen Lu
• Anna Lysenko
• Izabel Martinova Markova
• Alexander James Mcfarlane
• Lin Miao
• Aoi Murase
• Ruixin Niu
• Ao Peng
• Yunrui Qu
• Miguel Garcia Ros D’luano
• Zhenwei Shi
• Keigo Suzuki
• Maya Tal
• Aleksandr Tatarinov
• Emma Wernig
• Kinga Wojdalska
• Shuo Xu
• Yue Yu
• Emiko Yuasa
• Lan Zhang
• Paul Adrien Zientara

Open to international violists 30 years and younger, the 1st prize winner will receive €7,000, a debut recital at London's Wigmore Hall – plus a contemporary viola bow valued at €5,000.

The 2019 jury comprises: Yuri Bashmet (President & Jury Chairman), George Caird, Carol Rodland, Danusha Waskiewicz, and Mikhail Zemtsov.

Previous 1st prize winners include: Cynthia Phelps, Paul Neubauer - and VC Young Artists Timothy Ridout, Ziyu Shen and Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt.