The remaining nine Competitors performed their programmes to a consistently-full Memorial Hall...

Anastasia Agapova.
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Eun-Sol Youn.
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Luosha Fang.
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Maciej Strzelecki.
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Nadir Khashimov.
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Robyn Bollinger.
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Sergey Malov.
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Xiang Yu.
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Christine Hill acknowledges the huge contributions from pianists Diedre and Sarah...

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Composer John Psathas announces the prize for the Best Performance of the NZ Commissioned Work...

Richard Lin accepting the prize.
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Dr Robin Congreve, with the panel of international judges, announces the six semi-finalists advancing to Round III...

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After three grueling days of semi-finals competition, advancing to Round III are (in alphabetical order):
- Stefani COLLINS
- Nadir KHASHIMOV
- Richard LIN
- Sergey MALOV
- Eric SILBERGER
- Xiang YU
Congratulations to the six advancing competitors (and to Richard for his win) and well done to the rest of the competitors!

Josef congratulating Xiang and Eric.
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