Around midnight on Saturday 11 May the chairman of the jury has announced the 24 candidates who go through to the semi-final. The semi-final will take place from 13 until 18 May at Studio 4 of Flagey in Brussels. Each semi-finalist will perform, on two separate days, a recital and a Mozart Concerto with the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, conducted by Michael Hofstetter.
The 24 Semi-Finalists 2013 are in alphabetical order:
Mikhail Berestnev - Russia
Mateusz Borowiak - Poland
Tatiana Chernichka - Russia
David Fung - Australia
Rémi Geniet - France
Boris Giltburg - Russia
Roope Gröndahl - Finland
Oleksandr Grynyuk - Ukraine
Sean Kennard - USA
Stanislav Khrystenko - Ukraine
Joon Kim - Korea
Sang-Young Kim - Korea
Ye-Dam Kim - Korea
Jianing Kong - China
Yun Tian Liu - China
Ye-Jin Noh - Korea
Kana Okada - Japan
Joo-Hyeon Park - Korea
Stéphanie Marie Proot - Belgium
Lu Shen - China
Samson Tsoy - Kazakstan
Andrew Tyson - USA
Yannick Van de Velde - Belgium
Zhang Zuo - China
