Candidates

A total of 83 candidates have been accepted for the first round of this year's violin competition.
As a handful of candidates have withdrawn, there are 68 participants (33 women - 35 men - 24 nationalities in total) that will perform during the first round.
Schedule of the first round

Yukari Aotani [Japan]
Hrachya Avanesyan [Armenia]
Andrey Baranov [Russia]
Noah Bendix-Balgley [USA]
Birthe Blom [The Netherlands ]
Nikita Borisoglebsky [Russia]
Jiafeng Chen [China]
Ray Chen [Australia]
Artur Chermonov [Kyrgysztan]
Jinjoo Cho [Korea]
Ye-Eun Choi [Korea]
Hyunjoo Choo [Korea]
David Coucheron [Norway]
Jolente De Maeyer [Belgium]
Luis Esnaola [Spain]
Ying Fu [China]
Ilian Garnet [Moldavia]
Lorenzo Gatto [Belgium]
Nathan Giem [USA]
Noëlle Grüebler [Switzerland]
Soojin Han [Korea]
Yusuke Hayashi [Japan]
Petteri Iivonen [Finland]
Yuki Manuela Janke [Germany]
Dalibor Karvay [Slovakia]
Eunice Keem [USA]
Nadir Khashimov [Uzbekistan]
Eriko Kijima [Japan]
Hye-Jin Kim [Korea]
Jaeyoung Kim [Korea]
Jeewon Kim [Korea]
Suyoen Kim [Korea]
Mayu Kishima [Japan]
Svetlana Kosakovskaya [Russia]
Erzhan Kulibaev [Kazakhstan]
Shih-Kai Lin [China (Taiwan)]
Emilio Mecenero [France]
Pavel Milyukov [Russia]
Boson Mo [Canada]
Jaroslaw Nadrzycki [Poland]
Haruka Nagao [Japan]
Nadja Nevolovitsch [Germany]
Solenne Païdassi [France]
Regi Papa [Russia]
Ji-Yoon Park [Korea]
Igor Pikayzen [Russia]
Ivan Pochekin [Russia]
Filip Michal Saffray [France]
Ginshi Saito [Japan]
Mari Samuelsen [Norway]
Vineta Sareika [Latvia]
Erik Schumann [Germany]
Hyun-Su Shin [Korea]
Kei Shirai [Japan]
Leonid Smorguner [Russia]
Yoonshin Song [Korea]
Yuta Takase [Japan]
Tee Khoon Tang [Singapore]
Stefan Tarara [Germany]
Danbi Um [Korea]
Marianna Vasilyeva [Russia]
Zhijiong Wang [China]
Yezu Elizabeth Woo [Korea]
Jung Yoon Yang [Korea]
Xiao-Yu Yang [China]
Ryoko Yano [Japan]
Soyoung Yoon [Korea]
Jing Zhang [China]