The category opening round candidates have been announced for the 2019 Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition – to be held in Fermo, Italy from the 18th to the 25th May, 2019.
The Category A Candidates (8-11 Years Old) are:
- Sofia Demetriades (England)
- Khanui Erdenebat (Mongolia)
- Sara Hagman (Sweden/Japan)
- Julia Kasprzak (Germany)
- Eteri Lobjanidze (Georgia)
- E-jay Loke (Singapore)
- Lingchen Lu (China)
- Isabella Marioni (Italy)
- Sunae Park (South Korea)
- Marianna Pazhik (Poland)
- Ekaterina Plekhanova (Russia)
- Ethan Shum (China)
- Isabella Testa (Italy)
- Yume Tomita (Japan-United Kingdom)
- Odysseas Tsakalidis (Greece)
- Deniz Yakin (Turkey)
- Himari Yoshimura (Japan)
- Giacomo Arduini (Italy)
- Nikolai Bergeron (Germany)
- Ecmel Bildik (Turkey)
- Jacob Cheng-wang-hoi (Singapore)
The Category B Candidates (12-16 Years Old) are:
- Sabina Dazhaeva (Russia)
- Eugenio del Villano (Italy)
- Emma Demetriades (England)
- Zhengping Deng (China)
- Juliana Fretska (Austria)
- Claudia Giorgio (Italy)
- Pilar Winter Hill (United States)
- Sofiia Hnativ (Ukraine)
- Minhee Ho (South Korea)
- Shiang-Rong Huang (Taiwan)
- Emiri Kakiuchi (Japan)
- Kyota Kakiuchi (Japan)
- Imaan Kashim (England)
- Maya Kasprzak (Germany)
- Ugnė Katinskaitė (Lithuania)
- Alexander Kulitskiy (Russia)
- Darya List (Germany)
- Peiqin Liu (China)
- Kaori Lopez-Shinohara (Spain)
- Sara Manaresi (Italy)
- Tokuji Miyasaka (United States)
- Tricia En Lin Ng (Singapore)
- Francesco Papa (Italy)
- Michelangelo Piovano-Spina (Italy)
- Maria Salzillo (Italy)
- Jovana Savic (Serbia)
- Sara Schisa (Italy)
- Anna Seres (Switzerland)
- Elen Shahinans (Armenia/Belgium)
- Jisu Son (South Korea)
- Miljan Stanisic (Montenegro)
- Angela Tempestini (Italy)
- Leonard Toschev (Germany)
- Anatol Toth (Germany)
- Jovana Udovic (Serbia)
- Ayami Umezawa (Japan)
- Shoko Umezawa (Japan)
- Yinong Xiao (China)
- Sofiia Yakovenko (Ukraine)
- Hanyue Zhang (China)
- Pietro Bagetto (Italy)
- Caterina Bartoletti (Italy)
- Maxim Bergeron (Canada)
- Dana Bilichenko (Ukraine)
- Līvija Bukša (Latvia)
- Martina Cicciò (Italy)
- Francesco Croese (Italy)
The Category C Candidates (17-21 Years Old) are:
- Irenè Fiorito (Italy)
- Teresa Haase (Germany)
- Elie Hackel (France)
- Lorenz Karls (Sweden)
- Gyurim Kwak (South Korea)
- Alexandra Lecocq (France)
- Tongtong Lei (China)
- Hao Li (China)
- Nastasja Link (Germany)
- Kuo Liu (China)
- Yiming Liu (China)
- Gabriel Martinotti (Italy)
- Kristina Marušić (Serbia)
- Areg Navasardyan (Russia/Armenia)
- Jaime Naya (Spain)
- Olha Rukavishnikova (Ukraine)
- Valerie Schweighofer (Germany)
- Veronica Scotti (Austria/France)
- Elisa Scudeller (Italy)
- Rika Tanimoto (Japan)
- Sofiko Tchumburidze (Georgia)
- Qingzhu Weng (China)
- Solvejg Wilding-Sulamith (Switzerland)
- Zaletel-Černoš Rok (Slovenia)
- Aleksander Zayranov (Bulgaria)
- Sirui Zhou (China)
- Nerea Arriola-Mendieta (Spain)
- Mariia Arteeva (Russia)
- Gergő Bauer (Hungary)
The Category D Candidates (22-35 Years Old) are:
- Qiao Dan (China)
- Flora Fontanelli (Italy)
- Federico Gallieni (Italy)
- Linda Gilbert (Australia)
- Hsuan-Hao Hsu (Taiwan)
- Chaeann Jeon (South Korea)
- Asia Jimenez (Spain)
- Gooil Kang (South Korea)
- Momoko Konishi (Japan)
- Martyna Lukasik (Poland)
- Chang Luo (China)
- Shai Nakash (Israel/France)
- Margarita Nastouli (Greece)
- Aoife O’Brien (Ireland)
- Pieter Peverelli (Netherlands)
- Jesùs Rojas-Tapia (Chile)
- Ellen Samdal (Norway)
- Elizaveta Saul (Belarus)
- Mitsuhiro Shimada (Japan)
- Jiao Shuai (China)
- Manja Slak (Slovenia)
- Leonardo Spinedi (Italy)
- Alberto Stiffoni (Italy)
- Kristina Traulko (Russia)
- Joanna Trzaska (Poland)
- Merve Uslu (Turkey)
- Songao Wu (China)
- Francesco Zanchetta (Italy)
- Xiaodan Zhang (China)
- Yulia Zharkova (Russia)
- Philip Zuckerman (Sweden)
- Olga Artyugina (Russia)
- Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis (Latvia)
- Wonbeen Chung (South Korea)
- Sewon Cho (South Korea)
- Yun-Jae Choi (South Korea)
- Emmanuel Crombeen (Belgium)
Open to international violinists aged 8-35, the Senior Category 1st prize winner will receive €2600 - plus a number of important performance opportunities.
The 2019 jury will comprise: Silvia Marcovici (President), Hyuna Kim, Georgy Levinov, Muneko Oya Otani, Gabriele Pieranunzi, Roberto Ranfaldi and Gerhard Schulz.
Previous major prize winners include: Arnaud Sussman, Alina Ibragimova, Nicola Benedetti - and VC Artists Dmytro Udovychenko, Chloe Chua, Ioana-Cristina Goicea, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Fedor Rudin.
