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Xu Dawei, Zhang Gouping, Du Ning, Zhang Tianyu, Li Cong, Chen Jun, Chen Yiming, Chen Jianyi and Li Lanfeng. |
This morning there was competitions in three rooms.
In the two other competition rooms, there were categories for 18-23 years, 24-29 years, and young age groups. Also accordion duet, trio and ensembles.
In the room where I took photos, there
was the open entertainment (variete) category for any age competitors. This was the top solo category and there were 7 competitors.
There was also duets, trio and accordion with other instruments.
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Bo Shi Nisa |
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| Huang Yueyue |
Hao Miao |
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| Yang Yilin |
Yang Hanyue |
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| Wang Chengzhe |
Li Churan |
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| Chang Fangyuan, Kong Wei and Yu Lei. |
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| Liu Wenqian and Feng Xuewen |
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| Lin Jinghan and Zhang Zhuo. |
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| Zhang Yongqing, Yi Fan and Hao Bingrui. |
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| Zhou Yang and Jia Haojie |
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| Wang Shengxian, Lin Shaojun, Gege Gerile and Li Dongjing |
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| At 3pm there were two presentation ceremonies. The reason for two ceremonies is that there were too many people to all fit in the one hall.
The first ceremony was for the very young children and up to about 10 years of age. The hall was very crowded with excited young children as you will see from the picture below.
The second ceremony was for older competitors. |
Thanks to my translator Ruan Mingyuan who helped all today. Mingyuan was the 3rd prize winner of the 2009 Coupe Mondiale and 2nd prize at Castelfidardo. Mingyuan has recently returned from London where she was performing at the Olympic Games concert associated with the official Chinese party. |
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| Large crowd attending the first presentation ceremony. |
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Some of the jury members were on the stage behind a table piled high with certificates and trophies.
Jury pictured above, left to right: Ding Qi, Li Lanfeng, Xu Dawei, Zhang Guoping, Frederic Deschamps,
Shan Jianxin, Liu Zhiming and Ruan Hailin. |
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| The placegetters, (preschool), 7-year-old group. |
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| First prize winners, Junior Group A, 13 to 15 years. |
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| Second prize winners, Junior Group A, 13 to 15 years. |
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| First prize winners, childrens Group B (primary), 10 to 12 years. |
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| Second prize winners, children Group B (primary), 10 to 12 years. |
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| There was a gap between the two prize giving ceremonies so students and parents were taking pictures. Pictured is Ruan Mingyuan with her father Ruan Hailin who is an accordion teacher in Jinzhong city, Shanxi province. He is the teacher at the "Doh Ray Mi" private accordion school with his wife Lei Xiufang and they teach more than 120 students. Ruan Hailin was one of the jury at this competition. |
Here is the large poster for the Grayson Masefield concert and standing alongside is his uncle Harley Jones (left) and Grayson's teacher Frederic Deschamps (right). |
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| Ding Qi, Ruan Hailin, Alessio Gerundio, Zhang Hongqi and Liu Yiru. |
A feature of the Hohner competition was the very nice lunches with all the jury and teachers which were very nice social events with lots of good food. |
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| Jury members making this presentation were, left to right: Ding Qi, Li Cong, Frederic Deschamps, Zhang Qian and Liu Zhiming. |
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| Above and below are presentations for the second prize giving ceremony which was for the remaining prize winners, mostly older than primary school, except for the very very young competitor below. He was maybe the youngest competitor of the competition! |
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At the completion of the two prize giving ceremonies, people left quickly to go back to their hotels to change for the more formal Closing Ceremony Concert at the Forbidden City Concert Hall which was originally the home of the Chinese Emperor.
The traffic in Beijing is renowned for having so many cars on the road, so the bus left the hotel nearly two hours before the start of the concert.
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