International Music Talent Competition Fall 2020
The American Protégé International Music Talent Competition is open to all instrumentalists (piano, winds, strings, brass, traditional, etc.), vocalists and traditional folk and jazz groups of all nationalities and countries. Participants are required to submit video recording materials for the audition. American Protégé is looking for genuinely talented people, who have creativity and stage charisma.
We invite talented performers of any age and genre to participate in the Competition.
All applicants who are signed with the manager or producer must submit via email a General Representation and Release Form signed by the Manager/Producer to be eligible for the Competition.
American Protégé Music Talent Competition Fall 2020 attracted very competitive applicants from 10 countries, including the United States, Canada, Italy, Poland, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
Awards
Winners will be offered to perform at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, or to receive a Winner’s Package by mail.
Star Performer Award, Judges’ Favorite Award Trophy, Judges’ Distinction Award Trophy and other Special Awards may be granted based on the judges recommendations.
Judges
Three qualified judges evaluate audition materials. All judges are independent, their students are not allowed to apply this season.
American Protégé
International Music Talent Competition Fall 2020 Results:
Judges’ Distinction (Plaque Trophy) Award Winners
Callie Chae Pyken is a 13-year-old actor and singer from Los Angeles. Callie has been performing since age 5 and loves acting, all genres of music and musical theater. She was cast in her first professional show as Gracie DeMarco / Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street, A Live Radio Musical in 2019. In 2020, Callie tied for 1st place / National Champion in the National Youth Arts – Junior Division for her rendition of On My Own from Les Miserables. Callie has trained and performed with Paper Mill Playhouse Summer Conservatory, Juilliard Summer Conservatory in Geneva, Colburn School, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Broadway Artists Alliance, Broadway Workshop Children’s Musical Theatre Festival, Broadway Collective, and Broadway Dreams. Last year Callie co-founded a teen performance group called Good Treble which brings musical acts to various senior homes in the Los Angeles area.
Angelina Zhang is a 14-year-old sophomore at Corona Del Sol High School. She has been studying piano with Hong Zhu since she was four. Angelina was the Arizona State winner of the MTNA South West Division and the alternate of the MTNA South West Division in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. She has won first place in the 2020 United States International Music Competition, the 2018 Steinway/Avanti Future Stars Competition, East Valley Music Teachers Association Piano Competition, and Desert Valley Music Teacher Association Piano Competition. Angelina has also won awards in the Arizona Young Artist Piano Competition, and the Arizona Musicfest Young Artist Competition. She has participated in performances including her concerto debut with the MusicaNova Orchestra in March 2019 and the 2019 American Liszt Society Festival. In her spare time, she enjoys reading and painting.
| Name | Age | City, state, Country |
| First Place Winners | ||
| Hailey Joyce Lim, cello | 5 | Singapore |
| Student of Stella Wu | ||
| Esme Tran, piano | 6 | Newport Coast, CA |
| Student of Ana Maria Eckstein | ||
| Mango Li, piano | 6 | Bayside, NY |
| Student of Joyce Ng | ||
| Bentley Penn, piano | 7 | Fort Mcmurray, Canada |
| Student of Eunji Penn | ||
| Ciaran Lim, cello | 7 | Singapore |
| Student of Stella Wu | ||
| Audrey Cham, piano | 9 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Julia Hsiao | ||
| Max Ding, piano | 9 | Edmond, OK |
| Student of Sukyoung Kwon | ||
| Amelia Bauernschmitt, piano | 10 | Dallas, TX |
| Student of Violetta Zharkova | ||
| Chengry Hsien, piano | 10 | Fremont, CA |
| Student of Le Yu | ||
| Sarah Qistina Lim, voice | 10 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Student of Maja Pavlovska | ||
| Antonio de la Torre, voice | 11 | Canberra, Australia |
| Student of Sonia Anfiloff | ||
| Junnosuke Yanagisawa, violin | 11 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Tomomi Matsumoto | ||
| Aryan Shrivastava, classical guitar | 12 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Scott Gossage | ||
| Audrey Tushman, piano | 12 | Wellesley, MA |
| Student of Sandra Hebert | ||
| Ricki (Ruiqi) Yu, guzheng | 12 | Fairfax, VA |
| Student of Lei Gu | ||
| Tiger Stepinski, piano | 12 | Edmond, OK |
| Student of SuKyoung Kwon | ||
| Tyson Lee, piano | 12 | Tawau, Malaysia |
| Student of Linda Koh Fui Tze | ||
| Yixuan Chen, flute | 12 | Sugar Land, TX |
| Student of Rebecca Powell Garfield and Joyce Lao | ||
| Alexander Lee, piano | 13 | Bethesda, MD |
| Student of Dr. Valerica Maican | ||
| Callie Chae Pyken, voice | 13 | Los Angeles, CA |
| Student of Julia Gregory and Michael Chipman | ||
| Jerry Xu, piano | 13 | San Ramon, CA |
| Student of Le Yu | ||
| Jiayi Angela Yin, oboe | 13 | Melbourne, Australia |
| Student of Stephen Robinson | ||
| Joanna Huang, violin | 13 | Lake Grove, NY |
| Student of Linda Sinanian | ||
| Alexander Zhao, piano | 14 | Chandler, AZ |
| Student of Yan Zhang | ||
| Alina Chen, flute | 14 | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Student of Melanie Lancon | ||
| Angelina Zhang, piano | 14 | Tempe, AZ |
| Student of Hong Zhu | ||
| Hannah Lin, violin | 14 | East Brunswick, NJ |
| Student of Sharon Cho | ||
| Henry Tushman, piano | 14 | Wellesley, MA |
| Student of Sandra Hebert | ||
| Momoka Yanagisawa, violin | 14 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Tomomi Matsumoto | ||
| Rebecca Sun, piano | 14 | Issaquah, WA |
| Student of Ivona Kaminska-Bowlby | ||
| Yechong (Eric) Shan, piano | 14 | Bellevue, WA |
| Student of Ivona Kaminska Bowlby | ||
| Yitong Sun, violin | 14 | Cary, NC |
| Student of Hsiao-Mei Ku | ||
| Alissa Shen, piano | 15 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Dr. Susan Groves | ||
| Grace Wong, guzheng | 15 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Chiffon Fu | ||
| Gwyneth Gherzan, violin | 15 | Highland Park, NJ |
| Student of Sharon Gayoung Cho | ||
| Hanna Oyasu, flute | 15 | Palatine, IL |
| Student of James Donahue | ||
| Hannah Qiu, guzheng | 15 | Palo Alto, CA |
| Student of Daisy You | ||
| Jayden Yeung, piano | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Lanzo Luconi | ||
| Jayden Yeung, violin | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sam Fischer | ||
| Joshua Choi, cello | 15 | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Student of Katie Youn | ||
| Karl Li, violin | 15 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Peggy Klinger | ||
| Shirley Xu, piano | 15 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Tatiana Stignev | ||
| Travis Lee, piano | 15 | Redmond, WA |
| Student of Dr. Ivona Kaminska | ||
| Alex Kohr, piano | 16 | Orinda, CA |
| Student of Elena Bai Pang | ||
| Amarin Wexler, piano | 16 | Chicago, IL |
| Student of Dr. Ann Birman and Devvora P. Schreier | ||
| Audrey Zhang, piano | 16 | Northville, MI |
| Student of Christopher Harding | ||
| Emily Lai, piano | 16 | Palos Verdes Estates, CA |
| Student of Esther Keel | ||
| Julia Jones, violin | 16 | New York, NY |
| Kaede Shimizu, voice | 16 | Fremont, CA |
| Olivia Ostlund, vocal | 16 | Dana Point, CA |
| Student of Marianna Giordano | ||
| Alton Shen, piano | 17 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Dr. Susan Groves | ||
| Seraphine Angelina, piano | 27 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Sienny Debora | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Vanessa Guan, piano | 9 | Austin, TX |
| Audrey Cham, piano | 9 | Austin, TX |
| Students of Julia Hsiao | ||
| Vocal Duet: | ||
| Angelina Chen, voice | 15 | Fremont, CA |
| Kaede Shimizu, voice | 16 | Fremont, CA |
| Second Place Winners | ||
| Elaine Chen, piano | 6 | Sugar Land, TX |
| Student of Qi Ding | ||
| Michelle Dou, piano | 6 | Philadelphia, PA |
| Student of Elena Berman | ||
| Chloe Wu, piano | 7 | Solon, OH |
| Student of Xiaoling Anderson | ||
| Tran Pham Quynh Anh, piano | 7 | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Student of Doan Hoang Khanh Linh | ||
| Howl Maciuca, piano | 8 | San Mateo, CA |
| Student of Jenny Chai | ||
| Alliana Lili Yang, voice | 9 | San Francisco, CA |
| Student of Lora Libby and Katie Kerwin-Gielniak | ||
| Elise Fan, piano | 10 | Chadstone, Australia |
| Student of Patricia Lau and Benjamin Sze Yin Wong | ||
| Cameron Merrill, piano | 12 | North Potomac, MD |
| Student of Vivian Kwok | ||
| Orly Liu, piano | 12 | Tucson, AZ |
| Student of Svetlana Arakelova | ||
| Sophia Lin, piano | 12 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Dr. Emily Hung | ||
| Sophia Ren, flute | 12 | Arcadia, CA |
| Student of Bolin Pan | ||
| Yan Qi Ong, violin | 12 | Singapore |
| Student of Edward Tan | ||
| Yixuan Chen, piano | 12 | Sugar Land, TX |
| Student of Qi Ding | ||
| Alyssa Kuang, piano | 13 | Spring, TX |
| Student of Yan Shen | ||
| Anna Lin, flute | 13 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Ching Yi Ho | ||
| Benoit Pelchat, voice | 13 | Moraga, CA |
| Student of Min-Sheng Yang | ||
| Cody P. Cheng, cello | 13 | Syosset, NY |
| Student of Ivy Chatanow | ||
| David Zhu, classical guitar | 13 | Jersey City, NJ |
| Student of Tali Roth | ||
| Yunyi Ling, cello | 13 | Potomac, MD |
| Student of Ning Wang | ||
| Angela Kohr, piano | 14 | Orinda, CA |
| Student of Elena Bai Pang | ||
| Anjali Schoetz, voice | 14 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Laura Green | ||
| Avril Brown, voice | 14 | Fremont, CA |
| Student of Vinh Nguyen and Lin Pan | ||
| Madison Hou, violin | 14 | Bridgewater, NJ |
| Student of Dr. Sharon Cho | ||
| Miki Mitarai, voice | 14 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Haruna Shiokawa-Mo | ||
| Erin Jang, piano | 15 | Fullerton, CA |
| Student of Dr. Hye Kyung Lee | ||
| Ira Hsiao, piano | 15 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Julia Hsiao | ||
| Jakub Maciej Jezak, marimba | 15 | Poznan, Poland |
| Student of Grzegorz Siek | ||
| Tony Zhou, piano | 15 | Los Gatos, CA |
| Student of Lin Pan and Joyce Liu | ||
| Trisha Sarma, voice | 15 | Monmouth Junction, NJ |
| Vaibhav Shetty, violin | 15 | Highland Park, NJ |
| Student of Sharon Gayoung Cho | ||
| Angela Jia, piano | 16 | San Francisco, CA |
| Student of Liang-Yun You | ||
| Anna Pan, violin | 16 | Westport, CT |
| Student of Shan Jiang | ||
| Arhan Misra, flute | 16 | Moraga, CA |
| Student of Monica Williams | ||
| Haley Chan, piano | 16 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Miranda Wu | ||
| Audrey Nowatzyk, guzheng | 17 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Daisy You | ||
| Avyay Koorapaty, violin | 17 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Elbert Tsai | ||
| Isabel Melendez, viola | 17 | Metuchen, NJ |
| Student of Sharon Gayoung Cho | ||
| Yan He, voice | 29 | Vancover, Canada |
| Student of Opus Academy | ||
| Amelia Lo, voice | 30 | Hong Kong |
| Vocal Duet: | ||
| Benny Guli, voice | 10 | Rome, Italy |
| Maggie Guli, voice | 9 | Rome, Italy |
| Students of Alessio Quaresima Escobar and Cecilia Grillo | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Joy Liu, piano | 12 | Leander, TX |
| Amelia Spielman, piano | 14 | Austin, TX |
| Students of Julia Hsiao | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Kristen Fu, piano | 14 | Fremont, CA |
| Ray Chen, piano | 15 | Fremont, CA |
| Students of Peyhwan Kuan | ||
| Vocal Duet: | ||
| Derek Li, voice | 14 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Amy Young and Lin Pan | ||
| Jack Zhang, voice | 16 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Amy Young | ||
| Third Place Winners | ||
| Victoria Cui, violin | 6 | Bellevue, WA |
| Student of Christian Neascu | ||
| Hannah Yang, piano | 9 | Milpitas, CA |
| Student of Le Yu | ||
| Molly Kearney, piano | 10 | Lexington, MA |
| Student of Emily Murphy | ||
| Tanya Livingston, voice | 10 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Swetlana Velazquez | ||
| Simone Shvarts, electric violin | 12 | Southampton, PA |
| Student of Larisa Odlyvanska | ||
| Andrew Chiu, voice | 14 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Min Sheng Yang | ||
| Joning Wang, piano | 14 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Anna Stoytcheva | ||
| Sophia Somers, violin | 14 | Plymouth Meeting, PA |
| Student of Larisa Odlyvanska | ||
| Zhenjie He, voice | 16 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Opus Academy | ||
| Anay Koorapaty, violin | 17 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Elbert Tsai | ||
| Shirley Wang, voice | 52 | Saratoga, CA |
| Student of Zhongyan Liu and Paul Setziol | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Annika Shivam, piano | 13 | Austin, TX |
| Amelia Spielman, piano | 14 | Austin, TX |
| Students of Julia Hsiao | ||
Other applicants received Diploma of Participation
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!