Candidates Announced for Germany's 2017 ARD International Violin Competition

The 45 candidates have been announced for the 2017 ARD International Violin Competition - Including VC Young Artists Fedor Rudin and Sarah Christian

The 45 candidates have been announced for the 2017 ARD International Violin Competition – to be held in Munich, Germany from August 28th to September 6th.

Open to violinists of any nationality born between 1988 and 2000, the 1st prize winner will receive €10,000 (US $11,500). 

The 2017 violin candidates are:

• VC Young Artist Fedor Rudin (France)
• VC Young Artist Sarah Christian (Germany)
• Nicolas Alvarez (France)
• Kristine Balanas (Latvia)
• Lorenz Chen (Germany)
• Clémence de Forceville (France)
• Arianna Dotto (Italy/USA)
• Sara Etelävuori (Finland)
• Luosha Fang (China)
• Maria Florea (Spain)
• Leonard Fu (Germany)
• Yuichiro Fukuda (Japan)
• Lusine Harutyunyan (Armenia)
• Maria Ioudenitch (Russia)
• Mimi Jung (USA)
• Haram Kim (South Korea)
• Issei Kobayashi (Japan)
• Yu Kurokawa (Japan)
• Anna Lee (USA/South Korea)
• Jae Hyeong Lee (South Korea)
• Jiyoon Lee (South Korea)
• Juni Lee (Switzerland)
• Kunwha Lee (South Korea)
• Mari Lee (South Korea/Japan)
• Fanglei Liu (China)
• Matsuyama Michiru (Japan)
• Yasuka Morizono (Japan)
• Andrea Obiso (Italy)
• Kyoko Ogawa (Japan)
• Shuichi Okada (France/Japan)
• Seiji Okamoto (Japan)
• Soo-Hyun Park (South Korea)
• Liya Petrova (Bulgaria)
• Thomas Reif (Germany)
• Friederike Starkloff (Germany)
• Elly Suh (USA/South Korea)
• Mai Suzuki (Japan)
• Naoko Tajima (Japan)
• Yurie Tamura (Japan)
• Yun Tang (China)
• Louis Vandory (Germany)
• Eimi Wakui (Japan)
• Sophie Wang (Taiwan)
• Milena Wilke (Germany)
• Jinru Zhang (China)

Full streaming of all rounds will be available live and exclusively on The Violin Channel.

The 2017 jury will comprise: Mauricio Fuks (Chairperson), Pierre Amoyal, Hae-Sun Kang, Tasmin Little, Benjamin Schmid, Isabelle van Keulen and Ulf Wallin.

Previous ARD top prize winners include Christian Tetzlaff, Igor Ozim, Gerhard Hetzel, Dora Schwarzberg - and VC Artist Bomsori Kim. 

You won't miss a beat.

PICTURED: 2017 ARD International Violin Competition Candidates, VC Young Artists Fedor Rudin and Sarah Christian