The 4th International Hans von Bülow Competition aroused great interest worldwide. So far, we have received 115 applications from 34 countries.
Junior Category
Age group I (ages 13 and under)
Preselection not yet made.
Age group II (14-17 years)
Preselection not yet made.
Professional Category
From 73 applicants, 28 young musicians were selected to play in Meiningen in May 2023.
- Nicolas Absalom
- Belgium
- Rachel Breen
- USA
- Elio Coria
- Argentina
- Mitsuki Fukuhara
- Japan
- Julian Gast
- Germany
- James Guan
- Australia
- Gyu-Tae Ha
- South Korea
- Masahru Kambara
- South Korea
- Mikhail Kambarov
- Russia
- Nejc Kamplet
- Slovenia
- Felix Kehr
- Germany
- Deawon Kim
- South Korea
- Georg Kjurdian
- Latvia
- Tony Lee
- Australia
- Borun Li
- China
- Jakob Linowitzki
- Germany
- Qiao Liu
- China
- Nagino Maruyama
- Japan
- Simonas Miknius
- Lithuania
- Eugene Nam
- Australia
- Danylo Saienko
- Ukraine
- Naho Suzuki
- Japan
- Charlotte Tang
- Hong Kong
- Shih-Yu Tang
- Taiwan
- Hin-Yat Tsang
- China
- Miki Ueda
- Japan
- Chong Wang
- China
- Akane Yoshida
- Japan
Conducting from the Piano Category
From 23 applicants, 12 young musicians were selected to play in Meiningen in May 2023.
- Maxim Betkhtin
- Russia
- Aurel Dawidiuk
- Germany
- Gabriel Durliat
- France
- Kenichiro Kojima
- Japan
- Mikael Loponen
- Finland
- Jorma Marggraf
- Germany
- Nima Mirkhoshhal
- Germany
- Youngho Park
- South Korea
- Mihai Ritivoiu
- Romania
- Johannes Daniel Schneider
- Germany
- Alexander Sonderegger
- Germany
- Chong Wang
- China