Other participants

• 1. Lionel Martin, Germany
• 2. Mikhail Makhnach, Belarus
• 3. Arsenii Stavytskyi, Ukraine
• 4. Ivan Pshenichnikov, Russia
• 5. Augustas Gocentas, Lithuania
• 6. Che-Wei Kuo, Taiwan
• 7. Bence Bánkövi, Hungary
• 8. Raphaela Paetsch, Switzerland
• 9. Megan Yip, United States
• 10. Mingyue Zhao, China
• 11. Kamil Mukhametdinov, Switzerland
• 12. Anna Skladannaya, Russia
• 13. Krystyna Wiśniewska, Poland
• 14. David Ezhov, Russia
• 15. Aihao Zheng, China
• 16. Serafim Volkov, Russia
• 17. Florian Pons, France
• 18. Kotryna Šiugždinytė, Great Britain
• 19. Mara Lobo, Portugal
• 20. Gaudas Paulius Krištaponis, Lithuania
• 21. Kyung Jun Lee, South Korea
• 22. Timur Kolodyazhny, Russia
• 23. Despond Zoltan, Switzerland
• 24. Constantin Macherel, Switzerland
• 25. Christine Caroline Lamprea, United States

Participant data

Name of the educational insititution	Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, Berlin
Accompanist	Yes

Kyung-Jun Lee is a musically sensitive and gifted South-Korean cellist. At the age of 17, he was admitted to Korea National University of Arts and graduated with a Bachelor in Music in 2014, under Myung-Wha Chung. After his Bachelor, he received an Artist Diploma, studying with the internationally renowned cellist Truls Mørk at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Mr. Lee is the top-prize winner of many major music competitions, such as the Joongang Music Competition, the Great Mountains Music Festival Concerto Competition, the Karl Davidoff International Cello Competition (Latvia), and the Young Virtuoso International Competition (Bulgaria). Mr. Lee has also performed with the Changwon Philharmonic, the Asia Festival Orchestra, the GMMFS Orchestra, the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Academy of Music Orchestra, and the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Kyung-Jun has performed many concerts in the KNUA series, Kumho Young artist recitals, and Oslo among others. He has soloed with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and has been broadcasted live on radio and TV throughout Norway and Sweden. He has also been invited as a soloist to a festival in Norway, Mr. Lee is currently studying at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin under Trolels Svane.

I ROUND

1. Carlo Alfredo Piatti | "12 Caprices for Solo Cello" · Op. 25
   • No. 7
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 6 · D major · BWV 1012
3. Arvydas Malcys | Narcissus for Solo Cello

II ROUND

1. Dmitri Shostakovich | Sonata for Cello and Piano · D minor · Op. 40
2. Vladas Jakubėnas | Serenade for cello and piano
3. Henri Dutilleux | "Trois Strophes Sur Le Nom de Sacher" for solo cello · No tonality

III ROUND

1. Robert Schumann | Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (A. H. Lilienthal version for string orchestra) · A minor · Op. 129