The following children were admitted by the jury to the semifinals in Moscow, March 25

  1. Nadezhda Vasileva , Moscow, violoncello
  2. Danilo Kuzman, Novi Sad, Serbia, violin
  3. Alexandra Lee, Moscow, violin
  4. Kristina Toroshchina, Moscow, violin
  5. Miriam Abgaryan, Ekaterinburg, piano
  6. Elizaveta Alekseevskaya, Rostov on Don, piano
  7. Vsevolod Brigida, Moscow, piano
  8. Shakhnoza Dadabaeva, Tashkent, Usbekistan, piano
  9. Elizaveta Irgasheva, Kaliningrad, piano
  10. Elizaveta Karaulova, Samara, piano
  11. Anastasia Kuzmina, Tver, piano
  12. Boris Okatev, Novosibirsk, piano
  13. Anastasia Sokolova, St. Petersburg, piano
  14. Dmitry Umerenkov, Kursk, piano
  15. Melisa Ursu, Kishinev, Moldavia, piano
  16. Tom Zalmanov, Kfar-Saba, Israel, piano
  17. Ekaterina Kornishina, Moscow, flute