VC LIVE | 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition [FINAL ROUND]

Catch up on the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition Final Round – direct from Brussels, Belgium

Catch up on the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition Final Round – direct from Brussels, Belgium.

 

2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION

FINAL ROUND

LIVE FROM THE PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS - IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

 

 

NIGHT 1 | MONDAY 20TH MAY, 2019

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST LUKE HSU | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | 'FIDL' | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST LUKE HSU | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

SYLVIA HUANG | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

SYLVIA HUANG | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | DVORAK VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

NIGHT 2 | TUESDAY 21ST MAY, 2019

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST STEPHEN KIM | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST STEPHEN KIM | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | BRAHMS VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST JI WON SONG | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST JI WON SONG | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

 

NIGHT 3 | WEDNESDAY 22ND MAY, 2019

 

SEIJI OKAMOTO | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

SEIJI OKAMOTO | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST IOANA CRISTINA GOICEA | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST IOANA CRISTINA GOICEA | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | SHOSTAKOVICH VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN A MINOR | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

 

NIGHT 4 | THURSDAY 23RD MAY, 2019

 

JULIA PUSKER | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

JULIA PUSKER | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

YUKIKO ONO | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

YUKIKO ONO | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | BRAHMS VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

 

NIGHT 5 | FRIDAY 24TH MAY, 2019

 

STELLA CHEN | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

STELLA CHEN | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST TIMOTHY CHOOI | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

VC YOUNG ARTIST TIMOTHY CHOOI | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

NIGHT 6 | SATURDAY 25TH MAY, 2019

 

SHANNON LEE | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

SHANNON LEE | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

EVA RABCHEVSKA | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | KIMMO HAKOLA | FIDL | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

EVA RABCHEVSKA | 2019 QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION | BRAHMS VIOLIN CONCERTO | HUGH WOLFF & BELGIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

 

 

For the Final stage, to be held from the 20th to the 26th of May, each finalist will perform a major concerto of their own choice, plus an unpublished work specially written for this year’s competition by composer Kimmo Hakola – with conductor Hugh Wolf and the Belgian National Orchestra.

Each of the 12 finalists will this week enter the isolation of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth conservatory – to complete their final stages of preparation.

It is mandatory, as condition of the competition, for each finalist to spend the preceding 7 days within the closed confines of the school – so to focus physically and mentally and study the previously unpublished set work without external influence.

During this isolation period, each candidate is forbidden from making contact with any person outside the competition establishment.

Open to international violinists aged 18 to 30 years old who are ready to embark on an international career, the 1st prize winner will receive €25,000, a CD recording, a number of important international performance opportunities – plus the 4 year use of the 1708 ‘Huggins‘ Stradivarius, on generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

The 2019 jury comprises: Pierre Amoyal, Martin Beaver, Corina Belcea, Patrice Fontanarosa, Pamela Frank, Lorenzo Gatto, Koichiro Harada, Yossif Ivanov, Dong-Suk Kang, Victor Kissine, Jaime Laredo, Shirly Laub, Mihaela Martin, Midori, Natalia Prischepenko, Vadim Repin and Arabella Steinbacher.

Previous 1st prize winners include: David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, Jaime Laredo, Philippe Hischhorn, Miriam Fried, Vadim Repin, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Baiba Skride – and VC Artists Ray Chen and Ji-Young Lim.