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Brass Participants Selected For The International Tchaikovsky Competition

Below is a list of participants selected for the brass categories in the International Tchaikovsky Competition. This is the first time in the competition’s history that brass instruments were a part of the selection process.

Click here for more information about the competition as well as requirements for each round.

Brass Instruments (Trumpet):

  1. Zhasulan Abdykalykov (Kazakhstan)
  2. Stepan Bachevich (Russia)
  3. Dimitrios Gkogkas (Greece)
  4. Alexey Ivanov (Russia)
  5. Lucas Lipari-Mayer (France)
  6. Ansel Norris (USA)
  7. Floris Onstwedder (Netherlands)
  8. Aleksey Popov (Russia)
  9. Nikolay  Stranatkovskiy (Russia)
  10. Titouan Farnier Florent (France)
  11. Steven Franklin (USA)
  12. Chuan-An Hou (China Taiwan)
  13. Denis Shabardin (Russia)
  14. Arthur Escriva (France)

Brass Instruments (French Horn):

  1. Demir Bora (Turkey)
  2. Ben Goldscheider (United Kingdom)
  3. Felix Dervaux (France)
  4. Oleg Egorov (Russia)
  5. Yun Zeng (China)
  6. Zakhar Katsman (Russia)
  7. Vladimir Mezentsev(Russia)
  8. Oleg Skrotcky (Russia)
  9. Andrey Smal (Belarus)
  10. Claudio Flückiger (Switzerland)
  11. Evgeniy Churikov (Ukraine)
  12. Hae-Ree Yoo (South Korea)

Brass Instruments (Trombone):

  1. Tolga Akman (Turkey)
  2. Michael William Buchanan (United Kingdom)
  3. Benoît Dehaine (France)
  4. Diego Di Mario (Italy)
  5. Kelton James Koch (USA)
  6. Dmitry Krylov (Russia)
  7. Guilhem Kusnierek (France)
  8. Tobias Lang (Switzerland)
  9. Aleksey Lobikov (Russia)
  10. Nick Platoff (USA)
  11. John Romero (USA)
  12. Peter Steiner (Italy)
  13. Lucas Jamin Tiefenthaler (Switzerland)

Brass Instruments (Tuba):

  1. Daniel Barth (Germany)
  2. Florian Wielgosik (France)
  3. Henrique dos Santos Costa (Portugal)
  4. Magli Matteo (Italy)
  5. Tomoki Natsume (Japan)
  6. Gabriel Joshua Sears (USA)
  7. Fedor Shagov (Russia)
  8. Michael Johann Schwarzfischer (Germany)
  9. Jean Xhonneux (Belgium)

Jeremy Smith

Jeremy E. Smith is the Founder and Editor of Last Row Music. He received music degrees from Grace College, Carnegie Mellon University, and The Ohio State University. Currently, Jeremy is the bass trombonist of the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, and performs throughout Ohio, where he lives with his wife and two sons. Smith is a member of the International Trombone Association and the Jazz Journalists Association.