On August 1 of 2023, the Global Music Education League Violin Competition officially announced the violists who have advanced into the Preliminary Round to compete in November, Beijing.

The GMEL Violin Competition received applications from 13 countries and regions around the world, including China, Russia, the United States, Canada, Kazakhstan, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Hungary, Italy and Latvia, the youngest applicant 17 years old only.

“The competition attracted lots of applications from young violinists who have gained extensive attention worldwide in recent years, many of them already prize winners at important international music competitions and accomplished young performers. This is guaranteeing a music event with more than ten days’ excellence in the capital of China. These young musicians, engraved with the imprint of the GMEL Violin Competition and borne with the mission of GMEL, will one day surely become musical ambassadors for world peace in cultural and artistic exchanges,” said Professor Liguang Wang, GMEL chairman and president of the GMEL Violin Competition.

24 violinists from China, Russia, the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea were finally selected by a jury consisting of Bin Huang, chairman of the competition jury, and violinists Giovanni Angeleri, Zhiyong Liu and Keng-Yuen Tseng to advance from the Prescreening Round to the Preliminary Round.

As per the Rules & Regulations of the competition, the 24 competitors will perform a recital of no more than 30 minutes, including one unaccompanied work of Bach and one violin work both from the designated repertoire of the competition, as well as two caprices of Paganini. 12 will then advance to the Semifinal Round and perform a recital of no more than 70 minutes, including a complete Beethoven sonata, a Romantic Period sonata, a medium virtuoso piece and a rondo by Sicong Ma. At the First Phase of the Final Round, 6 violinists will be selected to play a Mozart violin concerto, after which, the competition will move from the Concert Hall of China Conservatory of Music to the National Center for the Performing Arts, and the three finalists will play one violin concerto of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Sibelius or Tchaikovsky, to contend for the color of their medals.

The violinists advanced to the Preliminary Round are:

  1. Yurina ARAI (Japan)
  2. Joshua BROWN (U.S.A.)
  3. Angela Sin Ying CHAN (China, Hong Kong)
  4. Elli CHOI (U.S.A.)
  5. Jung Min CHOI (South Korea)
  6. Elizaveta GLAZUNOVA (Russia) 
  7. Risa HOKAMURA (Japan)
  8. Masha LAKISOVA (U.S.A.)
  9. SooBeen LEE (South Korea)
  10. Yiming LIU (China)
  11. Chaowen LUO (China)
  12. Hao MIAO (China)
  13. Noelle NAITO(U.S.A.)
  14. Yukari OHNO (Japan)
  15. Audrey PARK (U.S.A.)
  16. Anna SAVKINA (Russia)
  17. Dongyoung Jake SHIM (South Korea)
  18. Leonard TOSCHEV (German)
  19. Xiyue WU (China)
  20. Tianren XIE (China)
  21. He XU (China)
  22. Muyan YANG (China)
  23. Juchao ZHAO (China)
  24. Leonid ZHELEZNY (Russia)