- Fedor Amosov
- Santiago Canon Valencia
- Brannon Cho
- Tristan Cornut
- John-Henry Crawford
- Leonard Elschenbroich
- Pablo Ferrández-Castro
- Sandra Lied Haga
- Sihao He
- Andrei Ionuț Ioniță
- Seung Min Kang
- Anastasia Kobekina
- Hee Young Lim
- Tao Ni
- Bruno Philippe
- Jonathan Roozeman
- Ivan Sendetsky
- Alexey Stadler
- Ildiko Szabo
- Michiaki Ueno
- Valentino Worlitzsch
- Alexei Zhilin
In addition to these 22 candidates, three other cellists will participate in the First Round of the Cello Competition: Alexander Buzlov, Alexander Ramm and Rustem Khamidullin.