International Concerto Competition 2021
International Concerto Competition is open to all instruments, including strings, piano, voice and winds.
Participants are required to submit video recording materials for the audition.
The largest number of musicians in American Protégé history applied for this year’s Concerto Competition. They hailed from 11 countries, including: different parts of the U.S., Canada, Czech Republic, China, Costa Rica, Great Britain, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand.
Eligibility
We invite school students and adults to participate in the Competition. There is no age limit for the adult participants.
Multiple winners will be chosen in each of the following age groups:
| School Students: | Adults (19 and older): |
| 12 and under | Amateur without professional degree |
| 13 - 18 | College students and professional musicians |
Awards
Since the situation with COVID-19 Global Health Crisis is still uncertain, winners will be offered to perform at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on the dates to be announced, or to receive a Winner’s Package by mail.
$300 Scholarship and other Special Awards may be granted based on the judges’ recommendations.
Judges
International panel of qualified judges will evaluate audition materials. All judges are independent, and their students are not allowed to apply this season. The concert pianist and teacher Ms. Irina Kaufman-Brookes (U.K./Russia) was invited as a Chairwoman of the Concerto Competition 2021. A graduate from the Gnessin Academy of Music, classes of Prof. E. Lieberman and Prof. L. Naumov, Ms. Kaufman-Brookes won a number of the International Competitions and performed as a solo and chamber ensemble pianist with the Bolshoi Theater, Stanislavskiy and Nemirovich – Danchenko Opera Theatre, and many orchestras across the Europe and USA.
American Protégé
International Concerto Competition 2021 Results
Judges Distinction Award (Plaque Trophies) Winners
Jae-Hyun (Eugene) Ryoo is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree at the University of Iowa studying with Dr. Kenneth Tse. Eugene has earned degrees from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and The University of Texas at Austin, studying with Dr. Robert Young and Dr. Stephen Page respectively. During his time at UNCSA, Eugene was the Saxophone Teaching Assistant, Woodwind Graduate Assistant and the Jazz Ensemble Manager. While in North Carolina, Eugene maintained an active studio teaching clarinet and saxophone students and was involved as a member of ArtistCorps Arts Engage. As an active performer, Eugene has performed with the Piedmont Wind Symphony, and Twin City Reed Quintet. He is a winner of the 2020-2021 Iowa and West Central Division MTNA Young Artist Competition, 2018 North Carolina MTNA Young Artist Competition, silver medalist of the 2018 Young Texas Artist Competition and 2017 Texas MTNA Young Artist Competition.
Grace Wang is a junior at Phillips Academy, she studies piano with Dr. Jonathan Bass at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. She has won prizes in many international competitions, including first prize American Protégé competition in 2021 and 2019, first prize and the Virtuoso Channel award at the Glory Int’l Piano Competition in 2019 and 2021, first prize at the Great Composers Competition Rising Talents of the World in 2019 and 2020. She was also the first prize winner for the American Fine Arts Festival, Piano Teacher’s Congress of New York, Crescendo International Music Competition, the IMPACT Young Artists Competition and many others. Grace has performed many times at NEC, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Lincoln Center. Grace loves all creative mediums, like design, filmmaking, and dance. Grace was the 2021 YoungArts Award Winner in Writing, the Best Feature Script Winner at the 2020 Paris Film Festival, and many others. She is an Ambassador for The Oliver Wendell Holmes Library.
Henry Tushman, 14, studies piano with Sandra Hebert at Rivers School Conservatory, where he twice won Rivers’ Piano Department Award. Henry has also attended Cremona International Music Academy in Italy. Most recently, Henry was chosen as the Massachusetts State Alternate in the 2020 MTNA Junior Piano Competition. He has won first prizes in the American Protégé International Music Talent Competition, Steinway Society of Massachusetts Piano Competition, Martha B. Sosman Concerto Competition, Cremona International Piano Competition, MMTA Bay State Piano Contest, MMTA Judged Festival, American Fine Arts Festival, Crescendo International Music Competition, and Elite International Music Competition. Henry has performed in Boston Symphony Hall, Shalin Liu Performance Center, and Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi in Italy. He has premiered pieces written for him by award-winning composers Amy Reich and Whitman Brown, played chamber music in the Boston Music Institute, and performed in master classes for Victor Rosenbaum, Derek Chiu, and Esther Ning Yau.
Sami Gershenhorn, pianist and composer. Since he was six years old, Sami was learning complex works, including movements from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, under the tutelage of Francisco Ybarra and Mary Sauer at New Music School. To date, he has performed in London, Positano, New York City, Miami, and Chicago. Recently, he won the 2021 NMS Concerto Competition with Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin, and received an Honorable Mention for his performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 at Depaul University’s Concerto Festival and has been invited to premier a new composition by Augusta Read Thomas. In 2020, Sami performed the first movement of Prokofiev’s 1st Piano Concerto with the Chicago Arts Orchestra, made his radio debut on WFMT 98.7 as a soloist and on July 4th was featured as an up and coming American composer, performing Emotions on a COVID 19 Lockdown, and invited to perform in masterclasses with Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne.
Amelia Baisden is nine years old and currently studies cello with Maxfield Wollam-Fisher at Levine Music in Washington, DC. She has held the position of principal cellist for the past four years across various regional youth orchestras and ensembles, currently leading the String Ensemble cello section of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras, with whom she competed at the 2020 American String Teachers Association National Orchestra Festival and was awarded the Middle School Grand Champion prize in March. She is a member of Levine Music’s Honors Program and DC Youth Orchestra Program’s most-advanced ensemble, Youth Orchestra. Amelia has won several regional and national solo competitions and has recently been named a winner of the Junior Cello Division in National Philharmonic’s Virtual Solo Bach Competition and was awarded “Most Promising Talent” in Amit Peled’s Inaugural Mount Vernon Virtuosi Online Cello Competition.
Winners by Age Category
| NAME | AGE | CITY, STATE/COUNTRY |
| Age Group 12 and under: | ||
| FIRST PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Amelia Baisden, cello | 9 | Washington, DC |
| Student of Maxfield Wollam-Fisher | ||
| Elgar, Concerto in E Minor Op. 85, I Mvt. | ||
| Maxwell Brown, violin | 9 | Wilmington, DE |
| Student of Shelley Beard Santore | ||
| Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major | ||
| Aaron Liu, violin | 11 | Porter Ranch, CA |
| Student of Yuki Mori and Min Jung Park | ||
| Julius Conus, Violin Concerto in E Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Abby Kim, cello | 11 | Duluth, GA |
| Student of Hyun-jin Kim | ||
| Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85 | ||
| Amy Ono, violin | 11 | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Student of Siripong Tiptan | ||
| Wieniawski, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op.22, III Mvt. | ||
| Emily Wang, piano | 11 | Bloomington, IN |
| Student of Anthony Weinstein | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K 414 | ||
| Joshua Lee, violin | 11 | Phoenix, AZ |
| Student of Jooyeon Han | ||
| Wieniawski, Violin Concerto No. 2, III Mvt. | ||
| Maggie Schneider, violin | 11 | Phoenix, MD |
| Student of Byung Kook Kwak | ||
| Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor | ||
| Florence Wei, cello | 12 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Jihee Kim | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33, I Mvt. | ||
| Sami Gershenhorn, piano | 12 | Lake Forest, IL |
| Student of Francisco Ybarra and Mary Sauer | ||
| Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue | ||
| Sophie Kim, cello | 12 | Phoenix, AZ |
| Student of Tom Landschoot | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33, I Mvt. | ||
| SECOND PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Qiaoshan Wang, piano | 6 | Xi’an, China |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Haydn, Concerto in F Major Hob XVIII, F1, III Mvt. | ||
| Trinity Min-Jie Tsai, piano | 8 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Haydn, Concerto in F major Hob XVIII:F1, I Mvt. | ||
| William Yan, violin | 8 | Foothill Ranch, CA |
| Student of Wendy Castille | ||
| Friedrich Seitz, Concerto No. 3 in G Minor Op. 12, I Mvt. | ||
| Serena Li, cello | 9 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Saint Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1, I Mvt. | ||
| Elizabeth Yuan Jen Wong, piano | 10 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15, I Mvt. | ||
| Matthew Schneider, violin | 10 | Phoenix, MD |
| Student of Byung Kook Kwak | ||
| Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major | ||
| Andrew Lee, piano | 11 | Carmel, IN |
| Student of Svetlana Soleimani | ||
| Peskanov, Concerto No.7 “Anniversary”, III Mvt. | ||
| Alex Gong, viola | 12 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Susanne Rothaar | ||
| Bach, Concerto in C Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Joyce Xu, violin | 12 | Great Neck, NY |
| Student of Laura Broverman | ||
| Bach, Concerto No. 1 in A Minor | ||
| William Jin, piano | 12 | Charlotte, NC |
| Student of Irena Hramenkova | ||
| Beethoven, Op. 15 Concerto No. 1 In C Major, III Mvt. | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Sara López Solera, piano | 6 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Carmen Méndez | ||
| Natalia Solera Saborío, piano | 36 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Mario Alfagüell, Oli’s Concertino Stück | ||
| THIRD PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Ruixi Zhao, violin | 7 | Redmond, WA |
| Student of Ilya Shpigelman | ||
| Bach, Violin Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1041, I Mvt. and Vivaldi, Violin Concerto No. 8 in G Major, I Mvt. | ||
| Xinwei Liu, piano | 8 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Haydn, Piano Concerto in G major Hob XIV:13, II and III Mvts. | ||
| Arjun Nirgudkar, cello | 10 | Brookhaven, GA |
| Student of Alexis Lee | ||
| Vivaldi, Concerto in E Minor, RV 40 | ||
| Kate Masuda, violin | 10 | Monterey Park, CA |
| Student of Susan Pascale and Ariana Solotoff | ||
| Accolay, Concerto No. 1 in A Minor | ||
| Shao-Chi Lan, piano | 10 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Bach, Concerto No. 4 in A, BWV 1055, I Mvt. | ||
| Clint Lee, violin | 11 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Lim, Jihee | ||
| Accolay, Concerto No. 1 in A Minor | ||
| Halyn Kim, violin | 11 | Porter Ranch, CA |
| Student of Hanna Jin | ||
| Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major | ||
| Cynthia Huang, cello | 12 | La Jolla, CA |
| Student of Ruslan Biryukov | ||
| Haydn-Popper, Cello Concerto in C Major, I Mvt. | ||
| Gianna Affatato, violin | 12 | Syosset, NY |
| Student of Larissa Broverman | ||
| De Beriot, Concerto No. 9 in A Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Joanne Lin, violin | 12 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Zhao Wei | ||
| De Beriot, Concerto No. 9, Op. 104 | ||
| Lydia Fan, cello | 12 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| HONORABLE MENTION | ||
| Anna Chuang, piano | 11 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Bach, Concerto in G Minor, BWV 1058, I Mvt. | ||
| Age Group 13 to 18: | ||
| NAME | AGE | CITY, STATE/COUNTRY |
| FIRST PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Elijah Kim, cello | 13 | Duluth, GA |
| Student of Hyun-jin Kim | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 | ||
| Rubi Lee, violin | 13 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Violin Studio of Mori & Park | ||
| Lalo, Symphonie Espagnole and Conus, Concerto in E minor | ||
| Angela Chan, cello | 14 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Sharon Liou | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor | ||
| Brian Chang, violin | 14 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Wendy Hua Castille and Lorenz Gamma | ||
| Saint-Saens, Violin Concerto No. 3, I Mvt | ||
| Henry Tushman, piano | 14 | Wellesley, MA |
| Student of Sandra Hebert | ||
| Schumann, Piano Concerto in A Minor Op. 54, I Mvt. | ||
| Krishna Rajagopal, violin | 14 | Chapel Hill, NC |
| Student of Eric Pritchard | ||
| Bruch, “Scottish Fantasy”, Op. 46, III Mvt. | ||
| Madeleine O’Neill, cello | 14 | Westport, CT |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 | ||
| Preston Wong, cello | 14 | Trumbull, CT |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No.1 in A minor, opus 33 | ||
| Amy Lee, violin | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Hee Sun Park | ||
| Julius Conus, Violin Concerto in E Minor | ||
| Annalise Mak, harp | 15 | Hong Kong |
| Student of Dan Yu | ||
| Handel, Concerto in B Flat Major for Harp and Orchestra, I Mvt. | ||
| Christy Kim, violin | 15 | Mason, OH |
| Student of Kurt Sassmannshaus | ||
| Paganini, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6, I Mvt. | ||
| Eric Ge, violin | 15 | Rye, NY |
| Student of Mary Ann Lanier | ||
| Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 | ||
| Noel Jones, violin | 15 | Rockville, MD |
| Student of Herbert Greenberg | ||
| Vieuxtemps, Concerto No. 4, IV Mvt. | ||
| Steven Wu, piano | 15 | Camas, WA |
| Student of Renato Fabbro | ||
| Shostakovich, Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major Op. 102, I Mvt. | ||
| William Lu, violin | 15 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Luna Chu and Kina Park | ||
| Saint-Saens, Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61, III Mvt. | ||
| Amelia Cho, violin | 16 | Cary, NC |
| Student of Eric Pritchard | ||
| Saint-Saens, Violin Concerto No.3 in B minor, Op. 61 and Barber, Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 14 | ||
| Aniket Mahajan, alto saxophone | 16 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Shay Salhov | ||
| Glazunov, Concerto for Alto Saxophone | ||
| Archimedes Li, violin | 16 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Michael Tseitlin | ||
| Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major, I Mvt. | ||
| Audrey Zhang, piano | 16 | Northville, MI |
| Student of Christopher Harding | ||
| Beethoven, Concerto No 3, Op 37, C Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Brandon Lee, viola | 16 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Susanne Rothaar | ||
| Walton, Concerto for Viola | ||
| Christopher Jang, cello | 16 | San Marino, CA |
| Student of Ben Hong | ||
| Elgar, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85, IV Mvt. | ||
| Elanna Mak, viola | 16 | Hong Kong |
| Student of Jeremy Williams | ||
| Bloch, Suite Hébraïque for Viola and Orchestra, III Mvt. | ||
| Elton Zheng, cello | 16 | Westport, CT |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 | ||
| Jacob Nenow, piano | 16 | Portland, OR |
| Student of Dr. Renato Fabbro | ||
| Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.1, Op.10 | ||
| Jong-A Isabelle Lee, cello | 16 | Seoul, South Korea |
| Student of Missa Kang | ||
| Elgar, Cello Concerto E Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Joshua Zheng, cello | 16 | Wilton, CT |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 33, III Mvt. | ||
| Luke Chen, cello | 16 | Bellevue, WA |
| Student of Olga Ruvinov | ||
| Elgar, Cello Concerto No. 1 | ||
| Noah Jung, clarinet | 16 | Hoffman Estates, IL |
| Student of Yehuda Gilad | ||
| Mozart, Concerto | ||
| Sidney Lee, viola | 16 | Arlington Heights, IL |
| Student of Roland Vamos | ||
| Walton, Viola Concerto, I Mvt. | ||
| Sonya Jin, violin | 16 | Plainsboro, NJ |
| Student of William Law | ||
| Paganini, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, I Mvt. | ||
| William Huang, piano | 16 | Rancho Palos Verdes, CA |
| Student of Rufus Choi | ||
| Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 | ||
| Annaliese Choi, flute | 17 | Riverwoods, IL |
| Student of Haymee Ann | ||
| Mozart, Concerto No. 1, I Mvt. | ||
| David Lee, violin | 17 | Pyeongtaek, South Korea |
| Student of Ham Ji Min and Samuel Park | ||
| Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64, III Mvt. | ||
| Eric Yun, violin | 17 | Okemos, MI |
| Student of I-Fu Wang | ||
| Vieuxtemps, Concerto No. 5 in A Minor Opus 37, I Mvt. | ||
| Grace Wang, piano | 17 | Andover, MA |
| Student of Dr. Jonathan Bass | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K 467, III Mvt. | ||
| Hanson Xu, piano | 17 | Plano, TX |
| Student of Christina Long | ||
| Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3, III Mvt. | ||
| Jared Weissberg, cello | 17 | Tustin, CA |
| Student of Esther Back | ||
| Prokofiev, Sinfonia Concertante in E minor, Op. 125 | ||
| Joie Hua, violin | 17 | Los Altos, CA |
| Student of Imant Airea | ||
| Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto No.2 in E minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Ke Nicole Hu, piano | 17 | Concord, NH |
| Student of Victor Rosenbaum and Mila Filatova | ||
| Chopin, Concerto No. 1 in E Minor | ||
| Kyle Wang, violin | 17 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Fei Fei Soong | ||
| Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto, III Mvt. | ||
| Aryanna Holmes, violin | 18 | North Salt Lake, UT |
| Student of Eugene Watanabe | ||
| Hindemith, Violin Concerto (1939), I Mvt. | ||
| Martin Kot, accordion | 18 | Napajedla, Czech Republic |
| Student of Ladislav Horak | ||
| Semionov, Ukrainian Dumka | ||
| SECOND PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Derek Lee, piano | 13 | New York, NY |
| Student of Donna Weng Friedman | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 17, I Mvt. | ||
| Allen Choi, violin | 14 | Northville, MI |
| Student of Mallory Tabb | ||
| Bruch, Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, I Mvt. and Kabalevsky, Concerto in C Major, II Mvt. | ||
| Cristina Baron, violin | 14 | Southampton, NY |
| Student of Dr. Emily Ondracek-Peterson and Dr. Erik Peterson | ||
| Vivaldi, Concerto No. 1 in E Major, Op. 8 RV 269, I – III Mvts. | ||
| Eric Koh, piano | 14 | Alameda, CA |
| Student of Heidi Hau | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414 – I Mvt. | ||
| Eric Lu, cello | 14 | Wilton, CT |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint-Saens, Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor | ||
| Nina Yu, piano | 14 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Yali Luo | ||
| Gershwin, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F, III Mvt. | ||
| Yiya Hu, violin | 14 | Wading River, NY |
| Student of Byung Kook Kwak | ||
| Lalo, Symphonie Espagnole in D Minor, Op. 21, I Mvt. | ||
| Anabelle Chang, cello | 15 | Portland, OR |
| Student of Hyun-jin Kim | ||
| Kabalevsky, Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49 | ||
| Desiree Chen, piano | 15 | Boyds, MD |
| Student of Yao Lin | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415 | ||
| Ellie Lee, violin | 15 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Michael Tseitlin and Irina Tseitlin | ||
| Sibelius, Violin Concert in D minor, Op 47, I Mvt. | ||
| Sooah Park, violin | 15 | Northbrook, IL |
| Student of Injoo Choi | ||
| Wieniawski, Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor Op. 22, I Mvt. | ||
| Amanda Tang, clarinet | 16 | Staten Island, NY |
| Weber, Concertino Op. 26 | ||
| Boyoung Min, viola | 16 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Susanne Rothaar | ||
| Walton, Viola Concerto, III Mvt. | ||
| Brian Yong, vioilin | 16 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Susanne Rothaar | ||
| Barber, Concerto for Violin, Op.14, I Mvt. | ||
| Chowon Bae, flute | 17 | Hoffman Estates, IL |
| Student of Haymee Ann | ||
| Mozart, Concerto No. 1 in G Major | ||
| David Zhang, piano | 16 | Sugar Land, TX |
| Student of Yanzi Lin | ||
| Beethoven, Concerto No. 3, III Mvt. | ||
| Juno Kim, A clarinet | 16 | Palo Alto, CA |
| Student of Hye Min Yun | ||
| Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622, III Mvt. | ||
| Michelle Yeoh, flute | 16 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Vivian Bergova | ||
| Mozart, Concerto In D Major, K. 314, II Mvt. (Edited by James Galway) | ||
| Miles Chen, piano | 16 | Beaverton, OR |
| Student of Mauro Bertoli | ||
| Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 2, I Mvt. | ||
| Seungchan Min, violin | 16 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Min Park | ||
| Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35, III Mvt. | ||
| Tiffany Wan-Hei Chan, cello | 16 | Hong Kong |
| Student of Patrick Sohn | ||
| Saint Saens, Cello Concerto No.1 in A Minor Op. 33, III Mvt. | ||
| Daniel Chang, cello | 18 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Nancy Kim | ||
| Elgar, Concerto, Allegro | ||
| THIRD PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Vikram Vallabhanath, cello | 13 | Portland, OR |
| Student of Hyun-jin Kim | ||
| Saint-Saens, Concerto No. 1 in A Minor | ||
| Yale Xie, violin | 13 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Luna Chu | ||
| Bruch, Violin Concerto No. 1 | ||
| Daniel Sim, trumpet | 14 | Fullerton, CA |
| Student of Matthew Kim | ||
| Neruda, Trumpet Concerto in Eb Major, II Mvt. | ||
| Lucas Tang, cello | 14 | Yarrow Point, WA |
| Student of Kai Chen | ||
| Elgar, Cello Concerto Op. 85 | ||
| Zhen Tao, piano | 14 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Yali Luo | ||
| Saint-Saens, Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Dennis Xu, vocal | 15 | League City, TX |
| Student of Summer Song | ||
| Mendelssohn, Is Not His Word Like a Fire? | ||
| Stephen Gwon, piano | 15 | Cambridge, MA |
| Student of Dr. Younggyo Lee | ||
| Grieg, Piano Concerto in A Minor, I Mvt. | ||
| Audrey Wei, violin | 16 | Newton, MA |
| Student of Kyoko Horowitz | ||
| Saint-Saens, Violin Concerto No. 3, I Mvt. | ||
| Audwin Chang, violin | 16 | Clyde Hill, WA |
| Student of Cristian Neacsu | ||
| Mozart, Concerto No.3 in G major K.216 | ||
| Crystal Tang, piano | 16 | Houston, TX |
| Student of Rodolfo Morales | ||
| Beethoven, Concerto No. 3, C Minor, I Mvt., Op. 37 | ||
| HONORABLE MENTION | ||
| Anabelle Lin, piano | 13 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Mozart, Concerto No. 22, III Mvt. | ||
| Cynthia Lin, piano | 14 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Student of Mary Ko | ||
| Bach, Concerto No.5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 | ||
| Shravani Venkatesh, Bb clarinet | 14 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Shay Salhov | ||
| Stamitz, Clarinet Concerto No.3 in B flat Major, I Mvt. | ||
| Kelvin Wang, violin | 15 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Luna Chu | ||
| Kabalevsky, Violin Concerto in C Major, Op. 48 | ||
| Zhenjie (Jack) He, voice | 16 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Janette Lim | ||
| Handel, Leave Me Loathsome Light | ||
| College students and professional musicians | ||
| NAME | AGE | CITY, STATE/COUNTRY |
| FIRST PLACE WINNERS | ||
| Jae-Hyun Ryoo, saxophone | 26 | IA City, IA |
| Student of Kenneth Tse | ||
| Andre Waignein, Rhapsody | ||
| Mathilde Handelsman, piano | 30 | Dover, NH |
| Student of John O’Conor and Menahem Pressler | ||
| Roger Boutry, Variations on an Imaginary Theme | ||
| SECOND PLACE WINNER | ||
| Jenny Yu, piano | 19 | West Linn, OR |
| Student of Renato Fabbro | ||
| Ravel, Concerto in G major – I Mvt. | ||
| THIRD PLACE WINNER | ||
| Pratchayakorn Yata, piano | 20 | Nakhon Pathom, Thailand |
| Student of Dr. Onpavee Nitisingkarin and Kankamol Kedsiri | ||
| Mozart, Piano Concerto No21 K467 | ||
| Amateur Category: | ||
| SECOND PLACE WINNER | ||
| Jackson Leung, violin | 38 | Hong Kong |
| Bruch, Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor, II Mvt | ||
Other applicants received Diploma of Participation
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!