There were 67 applications from 23 countries. The jury of Leslie Howard, Jeremy Siepmann and Chair, Murray McLachlan were very impressed with the overall standard.


16 and under The twelve semi finalists selected are:

Iyad Alsughair                   Jordan          Haydn D major

Gabrielle Chou                   USA             Chopin 2

Monika Daržinkevičiūtė      Lithuania      Chopin 1

Dominic Degavino              UK               Kabalevsky no 3

Luke Jones                        UK               Beethoven 3

Cason Kang                      Singapore    Beethoven 2

Hugo Kitano                      USA             Beethoven 3

Dong-Lin Long                 China          Chopin 1

Jonathan Mak                   Canada        Mozart K595 Bflat

Nicholas Amit Ryba          USA             Chopin 1

Yuanfan Yang                   UK               Chopin 1

Minghang Zhang             China           Shostakovich 2

22 and under The twelve semi finalists selected are:

Manos Charalabopoulos   Greece        Beethoven 3

Gamal Khamis                   UK               Beethoven 3

Sung-Jae Kim                    Korea           Chopin 1

Sungpil Kim                       Korea           Chopin 1

Noa Leigh Kleisen            Netherlands  Mozart K466

Alasdair MacAskill              UK                Shostakovich 2

Kentaro Nagai                  Japan            Chopin 2

Nadezda Pisareva           Russia           Chopin 1

Tudor Dan Scripcariu        Romania        Beethoven 3

Yoon-Seok Shin                 Korea            Beethoven 2

Alexander Soares             UK                  Chopin 2

Kelvin Aw Shi Yan              Malaysia        Kabalevsky no 3