International Violin Competition of Indianapolis announces its 2014 participants

Written by Robert Niles
Published: June 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM [UTC]

The participants are:

Name	Gender	Age	Nationality
Stella Chen	F	21	American
Daniel Cho	M	21	American
Jinjoo Cho	F	26	Korean
Jung Min Choi	F	20	Korean
Nikki Chooi	M	25	Canadian
Luosha Fang	F	25	Chinese
Kristi Gjezi	M	24	French
Fangyue He	F	27	Chinese
Ui-Youn Hong	F	27	Korean
Petteri Iivonen	M	27	Finnish
Yoo Jin Jang	F	23	Korean
Tianyun Jia	F	24	Chinese
Wonyoung Jung	F	28	Korean
Suyeon Kang	F	25	Australian
Nadir Khashimov	M	24	American
Bomsori Kim	F	24	Korean
Dami Kim	F	25	Korean
Stephen Kim	M	18	American
Mariya Krasnyuk	F	25	Ukrainian
Tessa Lark	F	25	American
Ji Yoon Lee	F	22	Korean
Shannon Lee	F	22	American
Youjin Lee	F	19	Korean
Christine Lim	F	19	Korean / American
Ji Young Lim	F	19	Korean
Richard Lin	M	23	Taiwanese/ American
Jennifer Liu	F	22	American
Vladyslava Luchenko	F	26	Ukrainian
Dominika Przech	F	28	Polish
Anna Savkina	F	20	Russian
Andrea Segar	F	28	American
Ji-Won Song	F	21	Korean
Chiharu Taki	F	27	Japanese
Yu-Chien Tseng	M	20	Taiwanese
Ayana Tsuji	F	16	Japanese
Danbi Um	F	24	Korean
Stephen Waarts	M	18	American / Dutch
Andi Zhang	F	22	Chinese
Nancy Zhou	F	21	American
Areta Zhulla	F	28	Greek

Photos available here. The ninth Indianapolis competition attracted 179 applicants from 31 countries. Of the 40 selected to move on to Indianapolis, 31 are women and 9 are men, with Korea sending 13 participants, followed by the United States with nine and China with 4. The participants range in age from 16 to 28, according to the IVCI.

The 2010 Indianapolis gold medalist, Clara-Jumi Kang. Photo by Denis Ryan Kelly, Jr.

The gold medalist in this year's competition will win $30,000, a Carnegie Hall recital debut in Stern Auditorium, and four years' use of the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivarius.

Violinist.com editor Laurie Niles will be in Indianapolis this fall to cover the competition here on Violinist.com. You can see our archive of coverage from the 2010 Indianapolis competition at violinist.com/indianapolis.