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Candidates announced for 2018 Paganini Competition / The Violin Channel

The 32 opening round candidates for the 2018 Paganini International Violin Competition have been announced - including 7 VC Young Artists. The Competition, to be held in Genoa, Italy from the 4th to the 15th of April, includes a 1st prize winner award of  €20,000. The 2018 jury will comprise: Sergei Krylov (Jury Chair), Dimitri Berlinsky, Bin Huang, Heiner Madl, Svetlana Makarova, Daniel Smith and Anna Tifu. Founded in 1954, former competition 1st prize winners include: György Pauk, Salvatore Accardo, Oleh Krysa, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Viktor Pikaizen, Grigori Zhislin, Miriam Fried, Gidon Kremer, Ilya Kaler, Dmitri Berlinsky, Leonidas Kavakos, Isabelle Faust, Ning Feng and VC Young Artist InMo Yang.

The competitors are - CLICK HERE