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	Yale University, New Haven
Accompanist	yes

Megan Yip, from Portland, Oregon, started playing the cello at the age of six and made her solo orchestral debut in 2011 with the Oregon Sinfonietta. She has continued to perform around the world in venues such as the Alice Tully Hall, the Jordan Hall, the David Geffen Hall, the Helsinki Music Center, and the Berwaldhallen Concert Hall. Megan is a guest artist with the Versoi Ensemble and has also been featured in NPR's radio show “From the Top” with Christopher O'Riley. She is an avid chamber musician and has been coached by members of the Juilliard, Ying, Shanghai, Brentano, Pacifica, and Escher Quartets. She has recently attended summer festivals such as Festival Pablo Casals and the Aspen Music Festival, and her masterclass teachers include Frans Helmerson, Ralph Kirshbaum, Michel Strauss, Alisa Weilerstein, and Amit Peled. Megan has received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School while studying with Richard Aaron, and is currently pursuing her Master of Music at Yale University as a student of Paul Watkins.

I ROUND

1. Carlo Alfredo Piatti | "12 Caprices for Solo Cello" · Op. 25
   • No. 10
2. Johann Sebastian Bach | Cello Suite No. 6 · D major · BWV 1012
3. Arvydas Malcys | Narcissus for Solo Cello

II ROUND

1. Johannes Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 2 · F major · Op. 99
2. Vladas Jakubėnas | Serenade for cello and piano
3. Paul Hindemith | Sonata for Solo Cello No. 3 · Op. 25

III ROUND

1. Edward Elgar | Concerto for Cello (F. Thomas version for string orchestra) · E minor · Op. 85