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Upbeat for Tuesday 7 June 2011

  • Cho-Liang Lin

    1:08 PM.US-based violinist and adjudicator of 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition. Audio

  • Misha Amory

    12:15 PM.Violist from New York-based Brentano String Quartet touring NZ on behalf of Chamber Music NZ. Audio

Upbeat will be following the Michael Hill International Violin Competition this week.

Eva Radich talks to one of the judges, Cho-Liang Lin, today at 1pm.

The final will be broadcast live on Saturday. 

Listen again to the first and second semi-final rounds.

The First Six Semi-Finalists

Six semi finalists
The top six semi-finalists for the Michael Hill International Violin Competition head through to the next round of the contest in Auckland from Wednesday. (Left to right): Richard Lin (USA), Nadir Khashimov (Uzbekistan/USA), Stefani Collins (USA), Sergey Malov (Russia), Xiang Yu (China) and Eric Silberger (USA)