NTD’s 2009 Chinese International Violin Competition kicked off at New York’s Kaufman Center.

Contestants who have made it through to the second round are:

Alissa Cheung
Richard R. Lin
Yuncong Zhang
Nancy Zhou
Shu Cheng Yang
Andrew Ling
Shi-Kai Lin
Andrew Eng
Shelly Ren
Chen Han Tsai
Zhangtong Song
Christopher Wang