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Music: 2nd Round Candidates Announced at Armenia’s 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition

The Violin Channel
June 9 2018


The 7 candidates progressing to the 2nd round of the 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition have been announced

June 9, 2018

The 7 candidates progressing to the 2nd round of the 2018 14th Khachaturian International Cello Competition have been announced – in Yerevan, Armenia.

The 2018 2nd round candidates are:

  • Fedor Amosov (Russia)
  • Chi-Wong Hong (South Korea)
  • Rustem Khamidullin (Russia)
  • Jonathan Swensen (Denmark)
  • Mon-Puo Lee (Spain/Taiwan)
  • Chechen Kim (South Korea)
  • Vasily Stepanov (Russia)

Open to candidates of any nationality aged 16 to 32, the 1st prize winner will receive US $15,000 – plus a number of important concert engagements.

The 2018 jury comprises: Suren Bagratuni (President), Lee Yi Yang, Meehae Rhyo, Sergei Roldugin, Stefan Kropfitsch, Viktor Uzur and Ling-Yi Ou Yang.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS