Japanese Violinist Mayu Kishima wins $100,000 First Prize in Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition

September 2, 2016, 9:18 AM · 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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elise stanley

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...).

Laurie Niles

September 4, 2016 at 04:09 PM · There isn't!

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September 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM · The columns of video selections go as follows:

award ceremony

first prize winner

second prize winner

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September 4, 2016 at 11:51 PM · actually it's the award ceremony, then first prize winner through sixth prize winner, then all the rest read "Isaac Stern Int'l music ...." the rest was cut off.

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September 4, 2016 at 11:52 PM · the second item from the bottom reads "edited version of <>"

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