Sibelius Competition admits 2 Russians, 2 Ukrainians

The important violin competition has chosen 49 violinists from 16 countries to participate in Helsinki in late May.

Among them are Ravil Islyamov and Galiya Zharova from Russia, and Dmytro Udovychenko and Georgii Moroz from Ukraine.

Zharova (pictured left) identifies on Facebook as being from Kazakhstan.

There are seven US contestants, 2.5 Finns, none from the UK.

Full list below.

Diana Adamyan (AM)
Otto Antikainen (FI)
Rio Ara (JP)
Lara Boschkor (DE)
Zach Brandon (US)
Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis (LV)
Karisa Chiu (US)
Jung Min Choi (KR)
SongHa Choi (KR)
Hawijch Elders (NL)
Mira Marie Foron (GE/IT)
Kaori Furusawa (JP)
Molin Han (CN)
Risa Hokamura (JP)
Adrián Ibáñez-Resjan (ES/FI)
Anna Im (KR)
Ravil Islyamov (RU)
Amia Janicki (CH/AT)
Sarah Jégou-Sageman (FR)
Eun Che Kim (KR)
Gyehee Kim (KR)
Jaewon Kim (KR)
Jeewon Kim (KR)
Stephen Kim (US)
Daniel Kogan (CA)
Issei Kurihara (JP)
Miyeon Lee (KR)
Yesong Sophie Lee (US)
Chaowen Luo (CN)
Nathan Meltzer (US)
Fumika Mohri (JP)
Georgii Moroz (UA)
Maine Nishiyama (JP)
Audrey Park (US)
Sueye Park (KR)
Aoi Saito (JP)
Felicitas Schiffner (DE)
Vikram Francesco Sedona (IT)
Yoomin Seo (KR)
Karen Su (US)
Natsumi Tsuboi (JP)
Dmytro Udovychenko (UA)
Kasmir Uusitupa (FI)
Jaewon Wee (KR)
Qingzhu Weng (CN)
Inmo Yang (KR)
Oukalin Yin (CN)
Minami Yoshida (JP)
Galiya Zharova (RU)