8 women, 4 men in Queen Elizabeth finals
mainThe 12 finalists of the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2019 were announced late last night:
Stella Chen (USA, 26)
Timothy Chooi (Canada, 25)
Ioana Cristina Goicea (Romania/Germany, 26)
Luke Hsu (USA, 28)
Sylvia Huang (Belgium, 25)
Stephen Kim (USA, 23)
Shannon Lee (Canada/USA, 26)
Seiji Okamoto (Japan, 24)
Júlia Pusker (Hungary, 27)
Eva Rabchevska (Ukraine, 22)
Ji Won Song (Korea, 26)
Yukiko Uno (Japan, 23)
Smile, please.
In the photo it looked like eight women and four men.
I heard Ms Goicea last year – she’s a fine violinist.
Best wishes (or should that be ‘break a string’).
The left side of the photo is missing!
Sylvia is the first Belgian in 10 years to be in the finals, she is a member of the first violins of the Concertgebouw orchestra.
I‘ll keep my fingers crossed for Timothy Chooi, last year‘s winner of the Joseph Joachim competition in Hannover, Germany
Why point out the gender difference? Many more women than men learn the violin these days. Nor is this the PC-hyped world of promoting women conductors; this is based on quality.