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2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition Announces 36 Quarterfinalists
The 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) has announced 36 quarterfinalists who are invited to participate in its second-ever live competition rounds in Shanghai late this summer. The candidates, from 10 countries, were chosen from 174 applicants from 33 countries.
The candidates are:
- Yurina Arai of Japan
- Marie Bégin of Canada
- Jiayi Chen of China
- Yige Chen of China
- Ellinor D’Melon of Jamaica
- Hiu Sing Fan of Hong Kong, China
- Mone Hattori of Japan
- Shucong He of China
- Valerie Kim of United States
- Alina Kobialka of United States
- Miyeon Lee of South Korea
- William Lee of Taiwan, China
- Quanshuai Li of China
- Po-Yu Lin of Taiwan, China
- Ruifeng Lin of China
- Zhen Liu of China
- Petr Lundstrem of Russia
- Ashley Park of United States
- Diana Pasko of Russia
- Eva Rabchevska of Ukraine
- Arsenis Selalmazidis of Greece
- Dmitry Smirnov of Russia
- Ji Won Song of South Korea
- Olga Šroubková of Czech
- Sophia Su of United States
- Anna Tanaka of Japan
- Yun Tang of China
- Chang Yuan Ting of Canada
- Diana Tishchenko of Ukraine
- Chieri Tomii of Japan
- Jacqueline Tso of United States
- Jiazhi Wang of China
- Runyin Zhang of China
- Alex Zhou of United States
- Jin Zhou of China
- Nancy Zhou of United States
The competition, with a grand prize of $100,000, will begin August 10, with three rounds over the course of three weeks. Second prize will be $50,000 and third prize $25,000, with a prize of $10,000 awarded for the best performance of the Chinese work, Qigang Chen’s "La joie de la souffrance." A $10,000 Isaac Stern Prize also will be awarded to an individual – in any field and from any part of the world – who is deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding of humanity through music. Winners will be announced Sept. 1.
The jury for the SISIVC 2018 will be co-chaired by conductor David Stern, son of Isaac Stern, and Vera Tsu Weiling, who is professor of violin at both Shanghai and Beijing Conservatories. Other members of the jury will include Lina Yu; Siqing Lu; Maxim Vengerov; Augustin Dumay; Zakhar Bron; Dora Schwarzberg; Daniel Heifetz; Weigang Li; Philip Setzer; Glenn Dicterow and Sreten Krstic; Martin Campbell-White and Emmanuel Hondré. Contestants will be required to clarify if there is any immediate family or pupil relationship with any jury member upon arrival.
The Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition was founded in 2015, with the first competition taking place in 2016. It was named after violinist Isaac Stern, whose 1979 visit to China was a great source of hope and inspiration for violinists and musicians in China, following that country's "Cultural Revolution," during which western music had been banned.
Winners in the 2016 Shanghai competition included first-prize winner Mayu Kishima of Japan, with Sergei Dogadin of Russia coming in second and Serena Huang of the United States third.
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How many violin competitions are there? I lost count ages ago!
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April 9, 2018 at 05:35 AM · “Contestants will be required to clarify if there is any immediate family or pupil relationship “
This is good to see as there are often questions asked about such relationships; especially in regard to Zakhar Bron. I know nothing against Mr. Bron - who famously taught Vengerov and Repin - but gossip can make things more difficult for the prize winners.
In the theatre we say ‘break a leg’ to the actors, so here maybe ‘break a string’ ?
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