2019 Olga Kern International Piano Competition
2019 Candidates Announced
The results are in!
For the last 2 months our selection panel has been listening to a many strong applications of talented pianists from all over the world. They have picked the following 27 participants to come to the beautiful land of enchantment for the week-long competition.
The list of participants are:
- Jeanne Amiele, Canada, 29 years old
- Hwa Young An, S.Korea, 32 years old
- Sergei Belyavskiy, Russia, 26 years old
- Young Sun Choi, S.Korea, 26 years old
- Federico Gad Crema, Italy, 20 years old
- Willem Petrus DeBeer, S.Africa, 27 years old
- James Fenwick, USA, 25 years old
- Nejc Kamplet, Slovenia, 23 years old
- Simon Karakulidi, Russia, 22 years old
- Elizaveta Kliuchereva, Russia, 20 years old
- Richard Octaviano Kogima, Brazil, 29 years old
- Aaron Kurz, USA, 24 years old
- Hyuk Lee, S.Korea, 19 years old
- Narae Lee, S.Korea, 29 years old
- Nikita Lukinov, Russia, 21 years old
- Kanji Miura, Japan, 26 years old
- Irina Morozova, Russia, 21 years old
- Kirill Prokopov, Russia, 27 years old
- Criatian Sandrin, Romania, 26 years old
- Tetiana Shafran, Ukraine, 30 years old
- Connie Kim-Sheng, USA, 28 years old
- Qilin Sun, China, 23 years old
- Daniel Tselyakiv, Canada / Israel, 27 years old
- Rolando Valdes, Mexico, 29 years old
- John Wilson, USA, 31 years old
- Victoria Wong, Canada / Hong Kong, 22 years old
- Rui Xu, China, 23 years old
5 RUNNERS-UP:
- Ivan Basic, Serbia, 23 years old
- Edwin Kim, USA, 31 years old
- Darya Kiseleva, Russia, 30 years old
- Georgiana Pletea, Romania, 26 years old
- Xiaopei Xu, China, 29 years old
