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PATRON: HTOWERS CHARITABLE TRUST and
BILL & CLARE HODGSON BEQUEST

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DCC Finalists 2025

Our 2025 Finalists. From left to right, Bruce Hodgson, Patron HTowers Charitable Trust, Ozan Biner-McGrath (piano), Portia Bell (cello), Roy Zhang (piano). Our 2025 Adjudicators: Sam Jacobs, Principal Horn, Sydney Symphoney Orchestra, Monique Lapins, former Second violinist NZ String Quartet and Lecturer at the NZ School of Music- Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington and Dr Jian Liu, Deputy Head of School, Head of Piano Studies, Associate Professor New Zealand School of Music-Te Kōki, Victoria University of Wellington.

The Competition is generously supported by the HTowers Charitable Trust and the Bill and Clare Hodgson Bequest.

Preliminary Rounds: Friday, 7 March to Sunday, 9 March 2025

Finalists' Concert with Orchestra: Friday, 16 May 2025, 7.30pm, Dunedin Town Hall

Entries for the 2025 Competition are now CLOSED.

1st Prize $7 000; 2nd Prize $5 000; 3rd Prize $3 000.

Additional prizes for competitors not in the final to the value of $5 000

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