Established in two thousand-fifteenth, the Zhuhai International Mozart Contest is presented by the Univ of Mozarteum Salzburg and held for emerging violin and piano players. Open to violinists and pianists under twenty-three, the contest not only focs on youthful musicians’ virtuosity but also attaches grand importance to their understanding and interpretation of classical music style.

The jury for both categories of the contest is as follows:

Violin Jury
Paul Roczek, Chairman（Austria）
Soon-Mi Chung Barratt-Due（Norway）
Radu Blidar（France）
Harald Eggebrecht（Germany）
David Frühwirth（Austria）
Kun Hu（France）
Dora Schwarzberg（Israel）
Weidong Tong（China）

Piano Jury
Pavel Gililov, Chairman（Germany）
Sergei Edelmann（United States）
Marián Lapšanský（Slovakia）
Kostantin Scherbakov（Switzerland）
Barbara Szczepanska（Germany）
Zhe Tang（China）
Ying Wu（China）

With an application deadline of May seven, candidates will be shortlisted through pre-screening of submitted recordings.

Former first prize winners of the contest comprise VC Artist María Dueñas, Ziyu He, Chloe Chua, Daniil Bulayev, Shihan Wang, Liu Yiming, Yuzhe Qiu, Jinan Woo, Lina Nakano, Simon Zhu, and Haruna Shinoyama.