2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition Names 24 Semi-Finalists
Congratulations to the 24 semi-finalists named at midnight on Saturday in the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition in Brussels, Belgium.
The semi-finalists in the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition.
The semi-finalists are:
Anna Agafia, of Denmark
Joshua Brown, of the United States
Angela Chan, of Hong Kong
Hana Chang, of the United States
Elli Choi, of the United States
SongHa Choi, of Korea
Emmanuel Coppey, of France
Anna Im, of Korea
Lorenz Karls, of Sweden/Austria
Ruifeng Lin, of China
Bohdan Luts, of Ukraine
Nathan Mierdl, of France
Georgii Moroz, of Ukraine
Julian Rhee, of the United States
Dmitry Smirnov, of Russian Federation
Karen Su, of the United States
Ruslan Talas, of Kazakhstan
Dmytro Udovychenko, of Ukraine
Pauline van der Rest, of Belgium
Minami Yoshida, of Japan
Mio Yoshie, of Japan
Dayoon You, of Korea
Leonid Zheleznyi, of Russian Federation
Kevin Zhu, of the United States
Click here to learn more about each semi-finalist.
The semi-finals will take place May 13 through 18 at Flagey cultural center in Brussels. See the semi-finals schedule here, and find videos from the past performances, as well as the future livestreams on this page.
During the semi-finals, each violinists will perform a Mozart violin concerto with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Vahan Mardirossian. Each will also perform a recital with piano accompaniment, chosen by the jury from two recital programs proposed by the candidate, each including works of the candidate's choice and the compulsory unpublished work written especially for this year's edition. Candidates learn the jury's choice the day before their recital, and the programs are shown in the calendar on the QE website.
This year's unpublished compulsory work is called "The Sun and Her Flowers" for violin and piano, composed by British composer Charlotte Bray, who will be present when the work premieres on Monday. Learn more about that work here.
Finals will take place from May 27 through June 1 at Bozar, with Laureates' recitals June 5 and 6 at Flagey, a Laureates' concert June 10 at Bozar, and a Closing Concert on June 12 at Bozar.
The jury for the 2024 violin edition includes Chairman Gilles Ledure, Midori, Vadim Repin, Augustin Dumay, Miriam Fried, Lorenzo Gatto, Philippe Graffin, Koichiro Harada, Dong-Suk Kang, Victor Kissine, Kyung Sun Lee, Tatiana Samouil, Vineta Sareika, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Baiba Skride and Isabelle Van Keulen.
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Christian, last week I happened to attend the first-round session where Meruert Karmenova played, I was blown away by her, but the overall level is incredibly high.
I'm curious if you have some favorite competitors so far?
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May 13, 2024 at 04:12 AM · I didn't even realize this was going on. I really like Joshua Brown from the last Indianapolis Competition, and it's a bummer that Meruert Karmenova didn't make it after her 2nd place in the last Wieniawski.