Announcing the 10 Semi-Finalists Fou Ts'ong International Concerto Competition
(This competition may include other instruments in the future but the name remains the same)

August 20-21, 2022 Boston, MA USA 2022 Concerto:

Beethoven piano concerto No. 5 Emperor Announcing the 10 semi-finalists. Candidates from Canada, China, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and USA of age 35 and under submitted videos for evaluation.

The 5-member Jury Panel of the Preliminary Round praised the advanced level of achievement demonstrated by all the applicants, made the selecting process a challenging task.

The following10 are recommended to the Semi-Final Round to be held in person on August 20, 2022 at New England Conservatory in Boston.  

(alphabetically)

-Lucas Amory (age 20, USA)

-Han Chen (age 30, Taiwan)

-Boyuan Cheng (age 22, China)

-Po-Wei Ger (age 26, Taiwan)

-Sahun Sam Hong (age 27, USA)

-Nan Ni (age 23, China)

-Peter Yide Shi (age 20, China)

-Hongzhen Wang (age 25, China)

-Alice Chenyang Xu (age 34, China)

-Sunny Lin Kai Zhang (age 17, Canada)

More Details at: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/concerto/2022/index.html

Awards:

First prize: USD $5,000, performing with Mercury Orchestra on August 27, 2022 at NEC's Jordan Hall, and a returning solo recital at Summer FREE Concerts @ NEC 2023.

Second prize: USD $1,500
Third prize: USD $1,000

Final Rounds:

Professor Bruce Brubaker, https://brucebrubaker.com/
Mr. Richard Dyer, https://alumni.hiram.edu/page/awarddyer
Professor HaeSun Paik, https://necmusic.edu/faculty/haesun-paik
Professor Sergey Schepkin, https://schepkin.com/
Mr. Channing Yu, http://channingyu.com/