Results and Award Ceremony

1st Prize €30,000: Sueye Park
2nd Prize €20,000: Minami Yoshida
3rd Prize €15,000: Claire Wells

The other three finalists each received a recognition prize of €3,000.

Best Performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto (€3,000) – awarded by the Sibelius family: Minami Yoshida

Best Performance of the Commissioned Work (€2,000) – awarded by the Society of Finnish Composers: Amia Janicki

Instrument loan: A G.B. Guadagnini 1777 “ex Sasson” violin, provided for one year by Dr David Li through Beare’s International Violin Society: Sueye Park

Selected Competitors

Finals

Gabrielle Després
Otto Antikainen
Claire Wells
Minami Yoshida
Amia Janicki
Sueye Park

Second round

Gabrielle Després
Otto Antikainen
Nakyung Kang
Wonbeen Chung
Claire Wells
Hyun Jae Lim
Minami Yoshida
Sara Watanabe
Qingzhu Weng
Bohdan Luts
Marika Konishi
Marina Wako
Aoi Saito
Amia Janicki
Sueye Park
Yukiko Uno
Alice Lee
Anna Lee

First round

Otto Antikainen
Rio Arai
Karisa Chiu
Wonbeen Chung
Gabrielle Després
Hiu Sing Fan
Matthew Hakkarainen
Ria Honda
Adrian Ibañez-Resjan
Amia Janicki
Jueun Jeong
Nakyung Kang
Minchae Kim
Marika Konishi
Alice Lee
Anna Lee
Youjin Lee
Lina Leikola
Hyun Jae Lim
Charlie Lovell-Jones
Bohdan Luts
Hanna Park
Sueye Park
Lilia Pocitari
Aoi Saito
Jiwoo Son
Charlotte Spruit
Leonard Toschev
Yukiko Uno
Marina Wako
Chenming Wang
Julia-Xiaozhuo Wang
Sara Watanabe
Jaewon Wee
Claire Wells
Qingzhu Weng
Esther Yang
Yebin Yoo
Minami Yoshida
Shaoheng Zhong