Brussels (Belgium), March 5, 2024 – Applications for the 20th violin edition were closed on Wednesday 29 November 2023. 290 violinists aged 18 to 31 years old have applied. In January, the videos of the candidates were viewed behind closed doors by an international jury, presided by Gilles Ledure and consisting of : Augustin Dumay, Lorenzo Gatto, Philippe Graffin, Victor Kissine, Tatiana Samouil and Vineta Sareika. The complete list of jury members will be published in April. 70 candidates were selected to participate in the first public round of this session. Since one of the selected violinists had to withdraw, there are currently 69 participants (Canadian participants include Daniel Kogan, Alice Lee, and Julia Mirzoev). Discover their profiles on www.queenelisabethcompetition.be.
Anna Agafia
Clarissa Bevilacqua
Claire Bourg
Joshua Brown
Angela Chan
Hana Chang
Jiayi Chen
Po-Fan Chen
Tong Chen
I-Hao Cheng
Elli Choi
SongHa Choi
Emmanuel Coppey
Hawijch Elders
Hiu Sing Fan
Mira Marie Foron
Kaori Furusawa
Laurel Gagnon
KayCee Galano
Léon Haffner
Kingston Ho
Risa Hokamura
Yiyang Hou
Anna Im
Luka Ispir
Amia Janicki
Lorenz Karls
Meruert Karmenova
Eun Che Kim
Haram Kim
Daniel Kogan
Alice Lee
Anna Lee
Thomas Lefort
Sofie Leifer
Ruifeng Lin
Bohdan Luts
Charlotte Marckx
Nathan Mierdl
Teofil Milenkovic
Mathilde Milwidsky
Julia Mirzoev
Georgii Moroz
Maine Nishiyama
Haerim Oh
Audrey Park
Julian Rhee
Zixuan Shen
Dmitry Smirnov
Julia Smirnova
Karen Su
Adam Suska
Ruslan Talas
Ayaka Uchio
Dmytro Udovychenko
Pauline van der Rest
Julian Walder
Sophie Wang
Alexandra Weissbecker
Qingzhu Weng
Tianren Xie
Esther Yang
Minami Yoshida
Mio Yoshie
Dayoon You
Rok Zaletel-Cernoš
Eva Zavaro
Leonid Zheleznyi
Kevin Zhu
Compulsory work in the semi-final
The Sun and Her Flowers by Charlotte Bray – www.charlottebray.co.uk
The candidates have received the score of this work for violin and piano upon the acceptance of their application. The Sun and Her Flowers will be premiered on Monday 13 May at 3 pm at Studio 4 in Flagey and will be performed by the 24 semi-finalists during their recital. The composer will be present during the semi-final and will be available for interviews.
Compulsory work in the final
by Thierry Escaich – www.escaich.org
The twelve finalists will each perform a concerto of their choice and an unpublished work composed by Thierry Escaich. The candidates selected for the final will receive this work the day they enter in isolation at the Music Chapel. They have one week, neither more nor less, to learn to play the work, without outside help. The imposed work will be performed twelve times with the Belgian National Orchestra, under the baton of Antony Hermus, and will be world premiered on Monday 27 May at 8.15 pm, at the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. Journalists can attend an audition of a recording of the piece at the Centre for Fine Arts on 27 May at 6:15 pm, in the presence of the composer. Please let us know if you would like to attend this press audition.
Tickets
Tickets and subscriptions can now be booked via Flagey and Bozar. Booking information
Calendar
The 2024 Violin Competition will take place from 6 May to 12 June. The schedule of the first round will be announced after the drawing of lots on 3 May.
At Flagey :
Friday 3 May | Drawing of lots (6pm)
From Monday 6 to Saturday 11 May | First round (3pm and 8pm) with piano accompaniment
From Monday 13 to Saturday 18 May | Semi-final (3pm and 8pm) – 24 semi-finalists with piano accompaniment and with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, dir. Vahan Mardirossian
Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 June | Laureates’ recitals (8:15pm) with the unranked laureates
At Bozar :
From Monday 27 May to Saturday 1 June | Final (8:15pm) – 12 finalists, with the Belgian National Orchestra, directed by Antony Hermus
Monday 10 June | Laureates’ concert (8:15pm) – 4th, 5th and 6th laurates, with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, dir. Tung-Chieh Chuang
Wednesday 12 June | Closing concert (8:15pm) – 1st, 2nd and 3rd laureates, with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, dir. Nuno Coelho
