The Clara Haskil International Piano Competition will take place in Vevey from 27 August to 3 September 2021. A reduced jury selected the candidates for the quarter finals. There had initially been a total of 133 applicants.
List of 22 musicians selected for the quarter finals, in alphabetical order:
Antonin Bonnet, France
Tom Carré, France
Ayumu Ibaraki, Japan
Myunghan Kim, South Korea
Juhee Lim, South Korea
Ionah Maiatsky, France
Vincent Martinet, France
Akihito Maruyama, Japan
Wataru Mashimo, Japan
Marcel Mok, Germany
Yumeka Nakagawa, Japan
Martin Nöbauer, Austria
Oscar Paz-Suaznabar, USA
Antoine Preat, France
Yena Roh, South Korea
Viktor Soos, Germany
Kaoruko Takagi, Japan
Ryohei Tanaka, Japan
Yiheng Wang, China
Maina Yokoi, Japan
Seho Young, USA
Tom Zalmanov, Israel
Past winners of the Clara Haskil Prize include Christoph Eschenbach, Michel Dalberto, Evgeni Koroliov, Steven Osborne, Till Fellner, Martin Helmchen and Sunwook Kim. In 2019 no prize was awarded.