Prize Winners of Each Age Group

Professional Category

Young Musician II

First Prize

Katherine Xia (Piano) USA

Teacher: Karina Maucha Cohen

Young Musician III

First Prize

Evelyn Shengxi Yang (Piano) USA

Teacher: Ernest Barretta

Young Musician III

Second Prize

Sarah Fernandes (Piano) USA/India

*Special Prize: Nodar Gabunia Jury Prize*

Teacher: Washington Garcia

Young Musician III

Third Prize

Raymond Jiang (Piano) USA

Teacher: John McCarthy

Young Musician III

Third Prize

Anthony Wu (Piano) USA

Teacher: Pawel Checinski

Young Artist I

First Prize

NOT AWARDED

Young Artist I

Second Prize

Peter Parra (Piano) USA

Teacher: Erna Gulabyan

Young Artist I

Third Prize

Andre Peck (Piano) USA

Teacher: Joseph Zins

Young Artist II

First Prize

Tong-Bai Deng (Piano) USA

*Special Prize: Best performance of a Contemporary work*

Teacher: Winston Choi/ Svetlana Smolina

Young Artist II

Second Prize

Chayapon Chanporn (Piano) Thailand

Teacher: Armen Babakhanian

Young Artist II

Third Prize

NOT AWARDED

Concert Artis

First Prize

Derek Hartman (Piano) USA

*Special Prize: Best performance of a Classical Sonata*

*Special Prize: Best performance of a work by a Russian composer*

Teacher: Boris Slutsky

Concert Artis

Second Prize

Nathan Cheung (Piano) USA

Concert Artis

Second Prize

Nayeon Gu (Piano) Korea

Teacher: Sofya Gulyak

Concert Artis

Third Prize

Nathaniel Holman (Marimba) USA

Teacher: Svet Stoyanov

Rising Star Category

Young Musician I

First Prize

Nora Xia (Piano) USA

Teacher: Karina Maucha Cohen

Young Musician II

First Prize

Solara Kim (Piano) USA

Teacher: Brian Hsu

Young Musician II

Second Prize

Nontaphat Bavonratanavech (Piano) Thai

Teachers: Pornphan Banternghansa/Nardvadee Suthisomboon

Young Musician II

Third Prize

Bernard Marissa (Vocal) Cambodia

Young Musician III

First Prize

Summer Liu (Cello) USA

Teacher: Andrea Glass

Young Musician III

Second Prize

Nathaniel Kim (Cello) USA

Teacher: Sungmee Lee

Young Musician III

Third Prize

Shawn Song (Piano) USA

Teacher: Baichao Lan

Young Artist I

First Prize

Ariunkhur Naranbat (Harp) Mongolia

*Special Prize: Best performance of a Contemporary work*

Teacher: Baigalmaa Baldan

Young Artist I

Second Prize

Kanyapat Dankul (Piano) Thai

*Special Prize: Best performance of a Romantic work*

Teacher: Pornphan Banternghansa/Christopher Janwong Mckiggan

Young Artist I

Third Prize

Emily Hu (Piano) USA

Teachers: Winston Choi/ Christina Tio

Young Artist I

Third Prize

Luca Sugawara (Piano) USA

Teacher: Ivan Varosanec

Young Artist I

Honorable Mention

James Yan (Piano) USA

Teacher: Michael Berkovsky

Young Artist II

First Prize

Minjae Kim (Piano) USA

*Special Prize: Best performance of a work by a Russian composer*

Teacher: Allan Park

Young Artist II

Second Prize

Yuriy Rogachev (Piano) USA/Russia

*Special Prize: Best performance of a virtuoso etude*

Teacher: Sueanne Metz

Young Artist II

Third Prize

Jin Han (Cello) USA

Teacher: Ko Iwasaki

Concert Artist

First Prize

Joonhyoung (Ben) Kim (Piano) Korea

*Special Prize: Best performance of a work by Liszt*

Teacher: Christopher Guzman

Concert Artist

Second Prize

Seoyeon Park (Piano) Korea

Teacher: Alan Chow

Concert Artist

Third Prize

Akane Kimura (Piano) Japan