We announce the names of 25 violinists from all over the world who will continue to compete at the auditions before the authoritative jury in Krasnoyarsk from September, 23 to October, 1 at the First International Viktor Tretyakov Violin Competition.

We remind that the Competition Directorate have accepted 60 applications from candidates from 22 countries. During the week the Selection Committee assessed the skill of the applicants by the provided videos.

Participants of the first round

1. Leonid Zhelezny / Russia
2. Polina Senatulova / Russia
3. Akbike Algi / Kazakhstan
4. Alina Kuroyedova / Russia
5. Giuseppe Gibboni / Italy
6. Kristina Galano / Philippines-USA
7. Filipe Abreu / Portugal-Belgium
8. Takamori Arai / Japan
9. Runyin Zhang / China
10. Lisa Yasuda / Japan
11. Jiang Zhenyi / China
12. Shisa Kitagawa /Japan
13. Sergey Dogadin / Russia-Austria
14. Baik Gun / Republic of Korea
15. Rimma Benyumova / Russia-Germany
16. Zhu Minjia / China
17. Jung Min Choi / Republic of Korea-USA
18. Ming Liu / China
19. Samuel Andrew Staples / UK
20. He Shucong / China
21. Pyotr Lundstrem / Russia
22. Fedor Ludewig / Russia
23. Fanglei Liu / Republic of Korea-Germany
24. Do Gyung Anna Im / Republic of Korea
25. Alexey Stychkin / Russia

We wish good luck and look forward to seeing you in Krasnoyarsk!

If for some reason any of the announced candidates will not be able to come to Krasnoyarsk we kindly ask to inform the Competition Directorate not later than the 5th of August by e-mail competition@krasfil.ru.

In this case the Organizing Committee will have the right to invite those who have got the most points from the waiting list.