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Japanese Violinist Mayu Kishima wins $100,000 First Prize in Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition
Congratulations to the winners of the first-ever Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition!
- First Prize ($100,000): Mayu Kishima of Japan
- Second Prize ($50,000): Sergei Dogadin of Russia
- Third Prize ($25,000): Serena Huang of the United States
- Fourth Prize ($5,000): Stefan Tarara of Germany
- Fifth Prize ($5,000): Richard Lin of the United States
- Sixth Prize ($5,000): Ming Liu of China
Best Chinese Work Performance ($25,000) for performance of The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto: Ji Won Song of South Korea
Listen to their archived performances here.
Isaac Stern Human Spirit Award ($10,000), given to individuals or organizations “deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to our understanding of humanity through the medium of music:
- Taixiang Wu and Zhengquan Du, who started The Einstein Orchestra, a middle-school orchestra in China. (China)
- Negin Khpalwak of Afghanistan, who lives in an orphanage in Kabul and directs an orchestra of 35 women.
Jury members for the competition are Zakhar Bron, David Cerone, Martin Engstroem, Daniel Heifetz, Emmanuel Hondré, Boris Kuschnir, Elmar Oliveira, David Stern, Maxim Vengerov, Jian Wang, Zhenshan Wan, Vera Tsu Weiling and Lina Yu. Final scores are available to the public, find all the final scores here.
COMING UP: Impressions from the Finals at Shanghai.
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September 3, 2016 at 11:58 AM · The link to the performances is entirely in Chinese. Do you know if there is a button to display it to English because else its impossible to find anything (I looked around but no luck...).