It has emerged that both the winner and the joint second-placed candidate in Genoa's Premio Paganini competition are students of the jury chairman, Salvatore Accardo. Simon Zhu's biography lists him as studying at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Accardo. The same academy also congratulates Jingzhi Zhang for coming second. Once again, the international music
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