On Sunday evening, 31 August, the youngest entrant, fifteen-year-old Chinese Michael Jiang, drew the number of the contestant who will be the first to perform, according to the tradition of the institution's competitions: it will be Anastasiia Kliuchereva from Russia, and she is followed by in alphabetical order.

Liszt Academy's competition was elected a member and was praised for its high quality by World Federation of International Music Competitions’ General Assembly.

A dedicated and important colleague, she was the secretary of Liszt Academy’s Éva Marton International Singing Competition and Bartók World Competition.

Organisers of the Bartók World Competition welcome and agree with the Statement of the WFIMC regarding Russian and Belarussian Candidates