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Sendai International Music Competition Entrants Selected

A total of 86 entrants from 17 countries or regions have passed auditions for the 3rd Sendai International Music Competition to be held in May and June this year.

Auditions were held in six cities (Vienna, Paris, Moscow, Shanghai, Sendai and New York) from November, 2006 through January, 2007. The successful contenders hailed from 17 countries or regions, the top four suppliers of winners being Japan (30), Russia (18), China (10) and the U.S. (7). The number of Russians selected this year showed a dramatic increase by 15 people over the previous round of auditions for the competition. This was the result of adding Moscow to the list of audition venues this year, according to the competition's managing office. (From the January, 2007 issue of the Sendai International Music Competition Newsletter)

The 3rd Sendai International Music Competition will be held in two parts, with 44 participants vying in the violin division May 20–June 2 and the other 42 contestants in the piano division, to be held June 10–23. The venue is the Sendai City Youth Cultural Center Concert Hall, located in Sendai, Japan.

Following is a complete listing of the competition entrants:
(Reproduced with permission from the Sendai International Music Competition, Sendai Cultural Foundation)

in alphabetical order of last name

Family names listed first

*Age:as of January 22, 2007

Piano Section
No.	Name	Sex	Country/Region	Age*
1	ARCIGLIONE Angelo	male	ITALY	24
2	BIRRINGER Esther	female	GERMANY	23
3	BORBÉLY László	male	HUNGARY	22
4	CHEN Moye	male	CHINA	23
5	DÁNYI Árpád	male	HUNGARY	24
6	GABRIELIAN Tanya	female	USA	23
7	GONG Jing	male	CHINA	25
8	GRYAZNOV Vyacheslav	male	RUSSIA	25
9	GUILLOTIN Cyril	male	FRANCE	26
10	GUZMAN Christopher	male	USA	25
11	HAO Duanduan	male	CHINA	16
12	HSU Brian (Keng-Lun)	male	TAIWAN	24
13	INUGAI Shinnosuke	male	JAPAN	24
14	IRIE Kazuo	male	JAPAN	20
15	KAMINO Chie	female	JAPAN	25
16	KANEKO Jun	male	JAPAN	20
17	KARPEYEV Alexander	male	RUSSIA	23
18	KUZNETSOV Denis	male	RUSSIA	24
19	LEE Kaling Colleen	female	CHINA	26
20	LU Yi-Chih	male	TAIWAN	24
21	MAEDA Takuro	male	JAPAN	23
22	MINE Maiko	female	JAPAN	22
23	MONAKH Olga	female	UKRAINE	24
24	MURATA Koki	male	JAPAN	22
25	NAGASE Yoshihiro	male	JAPAN	26
26	NAM Sandra	female	USA	23
27	OSMININ Alexander	male	RUSSIA	25
28	OVCHINNIKOV Ilya	male	RUSSIA	23
29	RABOTKINA Daria	female	RUSSIA	25
30	RIPERT Yohann	male	FRANCE	21
31	SANO Takaya	male	JAPAN	26
32	SARAPYAN Nina	female	RUSSIA	24
33	SARKECHIK Nima	male	FRANCE/IRAN	23
34	SHAKINA Anna	female	RUSSIA	22
35	SHEVCHENKO Oxana	female	RUSSIA	19
36	SHI Jia	female	CHINA	22
37	SHIMANUKI Megumi	female	JAPAN	24
38	SUNAMURA Yuki	female	JAPAN	19
39	TSINTSABADZE Shorena	female	RUSSIA	24
40	TSUDA Yuya	male	JAPAN	24
41	TU Hsiang	male	USA	27
42	TU Jingwen	female	CHINA	24

Violin Section
No.	Name	Sex	Country/Region	Age*
1	ARAI Momoko	female	JAPAN	19
2	BAEVA Alena	female	RUSSIA	21
3	BARANOV Andrey	male	RUSSIA	21
4	BIRRINGER Lea	female	GERMANY	20
5	BLUMENSCHEIN José Maria	male	GERMANY	21
6	CHIBA Sakura	female	JAPAN	23
7	CHIBA Sayaka	female	JAPAN	23
8	CHOI Hannah	female	USA	19
9	FEDOTOVA Aleksandra	female	RUSSIA	22
10	HAYASHI Yusuke	male	JAPAN	22
11	HONDA Samika	female	JAPAN	22
12	IIJIMA Tadasuke	male	JAPAN	24
13	ISHIBASHI Hayato	male	JAPAN	15
14	ISSOKSON Jason	male	USA	22
15	IWAKI Fuyu	female	JAPAN	21
16	KATO Mana	female	JAPAN	26
17	KAWAMATA Aska	female	JAPAN	19
18	KEEFE Erin	female	USA	26
19	KIYONAGA Aya	female	JAPAN	19
20	KOSINOV Maxim	male	RUSSIA	23
21	KOSTRYTSKYY Yevgeniy	male	UKRAINE	26
22	LUKIN Dmitry	male	RUSSIA	24
23	MACHOWSKA Maria	female	POLAND	19
24	MAKAROVA Svetlana	female	RUSSIA	25
25	MALOV Sergey	male	RUSSIA	23
26	MARCUS Tomer	male	ISRAEL	19
27	MEIRELES Pedro	male	PORTUGAL	25
28	MORIYA Tsuyoshi	male	JAPAN	22
29	NAGAO Haruka	female	JAPAN	17
30	SHIN A-Rah	female	KOREA	23
31	SIERADZKI Kinneret	female	ISRAEL	23
32	SOLUIANOV Vladimir	male	RUSSIA	22
33	SUH Min Jeong	female	KOREA	27
34	TAKIMURA Eri	female	JAPAN	20
35	TICHINDELEANU Eugen	male	ROMANIA	25
36	UBAGHS Gerardo	male	SPAIN	24
37	WANG Zhijiong	female	CHINA	23
38	XU Yang	male	CHINA	27
39	YAMADA Asami	female	JAPAN	18
40	YANO Ryoko	female	JAPAN	24
41	YAO Shanshan	female	CHINA	23
42	YODA Masanobu	male	JAPAN	21
43	YOSHIKAWA Kosuke	male	JAPAN	22
44	ZHAO Hui	female	CHINA	24

Sendai International Music Competition:

http://www.simc.jp (English & Japanese)

http://japansclassic.com/news/060130/02.html (English)

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