Cliburn Announces the 30
The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition announced today the 30 pianists who will compete in the 13th annual event.
They are, listed alphabetically:
Stephen Beus*, 27, USA
Evgeni Bozhanov, 25, Bulgaria
Yue Chu, 25, China
Ran Dank, 27, Israel
Alessandro Deljavan-Farshi, 22, Italy
Yoonjung Han, 24, Korea
Kyu Yeon Kim, 23, Korea
Naomi Kudo, 22, USA/Japan
Natacha Kudritskaya, 25, Ukraine
Eduard Kunz, 28, Russia
Andrea Lam, 27, Australia
Soyeon Lee*, 29, Korea
Ang Li*, 24, Canada
Michail Lifits, 26, Germany
Spencer Myer, 30, USA
Ilya Rashkovskiy*, 24, Russia
Mayumi Sakamoto, 26, Japan
Yeol Eum Son, 23, Korea
Victor Stanislavsky, 26, Israel
Chetan Tierra, 25, USA
Nobuyuki Tsujii, 20, Japan
Mariangela Vacatello, 27, Italy
Vassilis Varvaresos, 26, Greece
Lukas Vondracek, 22, Czech Republic
Di Wu*, 24, China
Amy Yang, 25, China
Feng Zhang, 23, China
Haochen Zhang, 19, China
Ning Zhou, 21, China
Zhang Zuo, 20, China
*Past Cliburn competitor
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