Candidates

A total of 83 candidates have been accepted for the first round of this year's piano competition. As a handful of candidates have withdrawn, there are 63 participants (28 women - 35 men - 19 nationalities in total) that will perform during the first round.

Schedule of the first round.

Nareh Arghamanyan [Armenia]
Antonii Baryshevskyi [Ukraine]
Alina Bercu [Romania]
Polina Bogdanova [Russia]
Veronika Böhmová [Czech Republic]
Evgeni Bozhanov [Bulgaria]
Seul ki Cheon [Korea]
Stefan Ciric [Serbia]
Antoine de Grolée [France]
Alessandro Deljavan [Italy]
Christopher Falzone [USA]
Yury Favorin [Russia]
Nicolas Franco [Belgium]
John Gevaert [Belgium]
Simon Ghraichy [Lebanon]
Sasha Grynyuk [Ukraine]
Soo-Yeon Ham [Korea]
Chi Ho Han [Korea]
Miao Huang [Germany]
Claire Huangci [USA]
Christia Hudziy [Ukraine]
Sean Kennard [USA]
Da Sol Kim [Korea]
DongKyu Kim [Korea]
Hye Jin Kim [Korea]
Kyu Yeon Kim [Korea]
Tae-Hyung Kim [Korea]
Denis Kozhukhin [Russia]
Olga Kozlova [Russia]
Tuomas Kyyhkynen [Finland]
Jin-Hyeon Lee [Korea]
Nikolay Leshchenko [Russia]
Hitomi Maeyama [Japan]
Hannes Minnaar [The Netherlands]
Maria Nemtsova [Russia / USA]
Varvara Nepomnyashchaya [Russia]
Akihito Okuda [Japan]
Dmitriy Onyschenko [Ukraine]
Andrejs Osokins [Latvia]
Esther Park [USA]
In-Hye Park [Korea]
Jong-Hai Park [Korea]
Anna Petrova [Bulgaria]
Stephanie Proot [Belgium]
Takashi Sato [Japan]
Amandine Savary [France]
Julia Siciliano [USA]
Anton Smirnov [Russia]
Jenna J Sung [Korea]
Yekwon Sunwoo [Korea]
Chetan Tierra [USA]
Maria Tretyakova [Russia]
Samson Tsoy [Russia]
Sofia Vasheruk [Russia]
Marie Vermeulin [France]
Anna Volovitch [Russia]
Chao Wang [China]
Lishan Xue [China]
Yoonhee Yang [Korea]
Jaekyung Yoo [Korea]
Zenan Yu [China]
Yunqing Zhou [China]
Hao Zhu [China]