The event takes place from 3 to 25 September 2016 in Romania in violin, cello and piano disciplines

ZlatomirFung

The 2016 George Enescu Competition has announced the 174 young artists who will compete in its violin, cello and piano sections from 3 to 25 September in Bucharest, Romania. The list was whittled down from a total of 317 applicants from 48 countries, up by 40 per cent for the 2014 edition. Each of the category winners will receive €15,000 and a series of concert engagements.

The violin competitors are:

Miroslav Ambroš

Yunfei Bai

Gun Baik

Ga Hyun Cho

Brigid Coleridge

Simina Croitoru

Adrian Dima

Dan-Iulian Druțac

Sara Julia Etelävuori

Henry Flory

Pierre Frapier

Yume Fujise

Anna Göckel

Ioana Cristina Goicea

Romuald Grimbert-Barré

Yuna (Yoo Na) Ha

Miu Hirai

Felicity James

Dasol Jeong

Liubov Kalmykova

Gyehee Kim

Jaewon Kim

Hye Jin Kim

Donghyun Kim

Sojeong Kim

Daniel Kogan

Barbora Kolarova

Erzhan Kulibaev

Alexandra Lomeiko

Luke Hsu

Tikhon Lukiyanenko

Sergey Maiboroda

Ionel Manciu

Eri Masaoka

Markiyan Melnychenko

Isabell Mengler

Yasuka Morizono

Haruka Nagao

Samuel Nebyu

Jana Ozolina

Taejun Park

Sungmi Park

Sergey Pospelov

Oleksandr Pushkarenko

Yejin Roh

Radu Ropotan

Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux

Valentin Șerban

Haruna Shinoyama

Andrei Stanciu

Elly Suh

Alican Süner

Mai Suzuki

Sunny Seonee Tae

Roma Tic

Diana-Maria Turcu

Kapoor Usha

Eimi Wakui

Jiman Wee

Yezu Woo

Hwapyung Yoo

Philip Zuckerman

The cello competitors are:

Jamal Aliyev

Beata Antikainen

Daniel Arias

Sevak Avanesyan

Sophia Bacelar

Ausländer Basile

Michal Beck

Yoon-Kyung Cho

Elia Cohen Weissert

Natalia Costiuc

Alejandra Díaz

Lee Dong-Yeol

Anastasia Feruleva

Junko Fujii

Zlatomir Fung (pictured)

Markus Hallikainen

Michael Heupel

Makio Horie

Woochan Jeong

Nam Jeongheon

Ayano Kamimura

Stanislas Kim

Bumjun Kim

Anastasia Kobekina

Anna Koshkina

Atanas Krastev

Benjamin Lai

Sujin Lee

Han Lee

Kyungjun Lee

Giljae Lee

Kang-Hyun Lee

Minjin Lee

Mon-Puo Lee

Georgiy Lomakov

Octavian Lup

Constantin Macherel

Chan Heung Min

Sung-Geun Park

Aleksandra Perlova

Václav Petr

Danila Popov

Clara Pouvreau

Aldangor Rabbani

Noemie Raymond-Friset

Florian Schmidt-Bartha

Minje Song

Endre Stankowsky

Lukas Stasevskij

Ion Storojenco

Tavi Ungerleider

Gabriel Ureña Hevia

Volodia Van Keulen

Tian Xie

Yoonha Yi

Naduo Zhang

This year's jury includes violinists Pierre Amoyal and Silvia Marcovici, cellists Natalia Gutman, David Geringas and Arto Noras and pianists Peter Donohoe, Dana Borșan and Andrei Pisarev.

The 2014 George Ensecu violin section was won by Stefan Tarara, while the cello section was won by Eun–Sun Hong.