Tchaikovsky competition eliminates major names

Among those who failed to pass the first round today are the hotly fancied pianists Alexander Malofeev and George Harliono and violinist Kristine Balanas.

The violin second rounders are:
Chisa Kitagawa (Japan)

Ravil Islyamov (Russia)

Mayumi Kanagawa (US)

Marc Bouchkov (Belgium)

Aylen Pritchin (Russia)

Anna Savkina (Russia)

Leonid Zheleznyi (Russia)

Albrecht Menzel (Germany)

Lara Boschkor (Germany)

Milan Al-Ashhab (Czech Republic)

Donghyun Kim (South Korea)

Sergey Dogadin (Russia)

The piano qualifiers are:

Konstantin Emelyanov (Russia)

Dmitry Shishkin (Russia)

An Tianxu (China)

Andrey Gugnin (Russia)

Alexander Gadjiev (Italy)

Alexey Melnikov (Russia)

Philipp Kopachevsky (Russia)

Alexandre Kantorow (France)

Arseniy Tarasevich-Nikolaev (Russia)

Mao Fujita (Japan)

Kenneth Broberg (United States of America)

Sara Daneshpour (United States of America)

Anna Geniushene (Russia)

Do-Hyun Kim (South Korea)