International Piano and Strings Competition 2010
American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2010 attracted applicants from across the US, China, Korea, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Romania, Hong Kong, Republic of Georgia, Australia, Israel and Costa Rica.
The Winners Recital for school students was held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
For college students and professionals the Winners Recital was held on Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Eligibility
Multiple winners will be chosen in each of the following age groups:
School Students: | Adults (18 and older): |
Young Musicians, 5 - 10 | Amateur without professional degree |
Junior, 11 - 14 | College Students and Professional Musicians |
Intermediate, 15 - 18 |
Judges
Four qualified judges will evaluate audition materials. All judges are independent; their students are not allowed to apply this season. Dr. Sophya Genis is invited as a Chairwoman of the Competition 2010. A graduate of the Moscow Gnessin Academy of Music, Mrs. Genis holds a Doctor of Music Arts Degree. She studied piano with such renowned professors as Alexander Yoheles, Yakov Milstein and Yakov Zak.
International Piano and Strings Competition 2010 Results
Name | Age | Country/State |
Age Group 5 to 10: | ||
First Prize | ||
Celine Pao, piano | 9 | Canada |
Student of Lorraine Ambrose and Kathy Bjorseth | ||
Su-Ah Ye, piano | 9 | Korea |
Student of Edward Auer and Sin Kyung Kim | ||
Oliver Betz, piano | 10 | New York |
Student of Dr. Natela Mchedlishvili | ||
Seth Blumer, piano | 10 | Connecticut |
Student of Svetlana Fiorito | ||
Peter Pao, cello | 10 | Canada |
Student of Ian Hampton | ||
Second Prize | ||
Parker van Ostrand, piano | 6 | California |
Student of Linda Nakagawa | ||
Michelle Stern, violin | 6 | New York |
Student of Anna Heifetz | ||
Shuan Hern Lee, piano | 7 | Australia |
Student of Yoon Sen Lee | ||
Jasper Heymann, piano | 7 | New York |
Student of Grigory Gourylev | ||
Andra Rosca, piano | 8 | Romania |
Student of Adriana Balaj | ||
Yingxin Su, piano | 8 | China |
Student of Xiaolan Lou | ||
Pablo Esquivel, piano | 10 | Costa Rica |
Student of Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
Third Place - not performing | ||
Stephanie Wang, piano | 7 | North Carolina |
Student of John Ruggero | ||
Dylan van Ostrand, piano | 8 | California |
Student of Linda Nakagawa | ||
Caroline Ma, piano | 8 | Connecticut |
Student of Lan-Ya Huang | ||
Henry Peyton Barbour, piano | 8 | Virginia |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Noah Lee, cello | 9 | New Jersey |
Student of Soo Youn Lee | ||
Yoon Jin Alexis Kim, piano | 9 | New York |
Student of Thomas Osuga | ||
Cynthia Soto, piano | 9 | Costa Rica |
Student of Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
Hanzhong Shi, piano | 10 | China |
Student of Xiaolan Lou | ||
Alexander Rozner, piano | 10 | Meryland |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Annamaria F. Costanzo, piano | 10 | Virginia |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Age Group 11 to 14: | ||
First Prize | ||
Anastasia Rizikov, piano | 11 | Canada |
Student of Maia Spis | ||
Nathan K Grabow, piano | 11 | Pennsylvania |
Student of Roger Hayden | ||
Sandro Sidamonidze, cello | 12 | Republic of Georgia |
Student of Tamara Gabarashvili | ||
Hye-Jun Kim, piano | 13 | Korea |
Student of Edward Auer and Shi Kyung Kim | ||
Kevin Li, piano | 14 | Pennsylvania |
Student of Marcantonio Barone | ||
Richard Shin, piano | 14 | Maryland |
Student of Dr. Scott Beard | ||
Second Prize | ||
Anson Hui, piano | 11 | Canada |
Student of Sofia Moshevich | ||
Hannah Hernandez, violin | 12 | New Jersey |
Student of Elizabeth Faidley | ||
Sydney Adedamola, violin | 13 | Massachusetts |
Student of Bonnie Black | ||
Nicole Kogan, piano | 13 | Connecticut |
Student of Erika Schroth | ||
Di Yawei, piano | 13 | Hong Kong |
Student of Claire Chiu | ||
Felix Jarrar, piano | 14 | Connecticut |
Student of Burton Hatheway | ||
Third Place - not performing | ||
Angela Luo, piano | 11 | Connecticut |
Student of Lan-Ya Huang | ||
Kexin Vought, violin | 11 | New York |
Student of Rebeca Boyd | ||
Alan Yao, violin | 11 | New York |
Student of Shan Jiang | ||
Jessica Kur, piano | 11 | California |
Student of Christie Skousen | ||
Hyeri Bae, piano | 12 | Georgia |
Student of Frances Yao | ||
Alexandra Moran, piano | 12 | Virginia |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Andrew Chan, piano | 13 | California |
Student of Lena Grozman | ||
Erica Chemtob, violin | 13 | Florida |
Student of Dr. Alvaro Gomez | ||
Rachel Marie Lent, piano | 13 | Meriland |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Qin Qin, piano | 13 | Hongkong |
Student of Claire Chiu | ||
Alexandra A. Costanzo, piano | 13 | Virginia |
Student of Nina Kozin | ||
Pierre Viallant, violin | 13 | Illinois |
Student of Hans Jensen | ||
Age Group 15 to 18: | ||
First Prize | ||
Yen Yu Chen, piano | 15 | Pennsylvania |
Student of Eleanor Sokoloff | ||
Jenny Fu, piano | 15 | Utah |
Student of Ya Liu | ||
Jenny Fu and Lya Yang, piano duo | 15 | Utah |
Students of Ya Liu | ||
Seung Yeon Lee, cello | 16 | New Jersey |
Student of Semyon Fridman | ||
Aileen LI, piano | 18 | New York |
Student of Marilyn Nonken | ||
Second Prize | ||
Francisco Chomnalez, piano | 15 | New York |
Student of Maria Asteriadou | ||
Zoe Miller, violin | 16 | Connecticut |
Student of Elizabeth Faidley | ||
Vivian Wang, piano | 16 | Pennsylvania |
Student of Allan Birney | ||
Clare Armenante, violin | 17 | New Jersey |
Student of Elizabeth Faidley | ||
Third Place - not performing | ||
Jason Wang, piano | 15 | California |
Student of Roger Wright | ||
Casey Costello, piano | 15 | Massachusetts |
Student of Margarita Kotlyarova | ||
Wenting Luo, piano | 16 | China |
Student of Xiaolan Lou | ||
Jung Yeon Lee, piano | 16 | New Jersey |
Student of Jeffrey Cohen | ||
Leo Wexler-Mann, piano | 16 | Minnesotta |
Student of Dr. Paul Wirth | ||
James Kim, violin | 17 | New York |
Student of Anna Heifetz | ||
Mario Jimenez, piano | 18 | Costa Rica |
Student of Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
Amateur: | ||
First Prize - Not Awarded | ||
Second Prize | ||
Silvia Kim, piano | 19 | Costa Rica |
Student of Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
Ayako Morishige, piano | 33 | United Kingdom |
Student of Tatiana Dolgowska | ||
College Students and Professionals: | ||
First Prize | ||
Ha-Young Kim, violin | 19 | Maryland |
Student of Victor Danchenko | ||
Margarita Krein, violin | 20 | Michigan |
Student of Dmitri Berlinsky | ||
Niv Ashkenazi, violin | 20 | New York |
Student of Stephen Clapp | ||
Peng Cheng He | 21 | Indiana |
Student of Edward Auer | ||
Olivia Gay, cello | 23 | France |
Student of Jean Guilien Queyras | ||
Destiny Ann Hoyle, violin | 24 | Maryland |
Student of Luis Haza | ||
Yoo-Ran Eunice Park, piano | 25 | Indiana |
Student of Shigeo Neriki | ||
Andy Feldbau, piano | 25 | New York |
Student of Julian Martin | ||
Violin and Piano Duo: | ||
Anyango Yarbo-Davenport, violin | 25 | New York |
Clara Yang, piano | 28 | New York |
Students of Prof. C. Castleman and Nelita True | ||
Jacquelyn Weitz, piano | 26 | Montana |
Student of Dorothea Cromley | ||
Eunhye Choi, piano | 26 | Massachusetts |
Student of Gabriel Chodos | ||
Yoon Shin Song, violin | 27 | New York |
Student of Robert Mann and Nicholas Mann | ||
Yoon-Jeong Kim, piano | 27 | Texas |
Student of Gregory Allen | ||
SoYoung Cho, piano | 27 | Texas |
Student of Adam Wodnicki | ||
Sinae Kim, piano | 28 | Korea |
Student of Prof. Kathryn Brown | ||
Eun-Young Son, piano | 29 | Germany |
Adam Clark, piano | 29 | Michigan |
Victor Sotelo, cello | 29 | Illinois |
Frederic Chen, piano | 30 | Missouri |
Student of John McIntyre and Boris Petrushanskly | ||
Jiyoung Noh, piano | 30 | Wisconsin |
Student of Martha Fischer | ||
Bora Lee, piano | 31 | Virginia |
Student of Eugene Pridonoff and Elizabeth Pridonoff | ||
Jin Kim, piano | 32 | Texas |
Student of Adam Wodnicki | ||
Junghye Shin, piano | 32 | Ohio |
Student of Eugene Pridonoff | ||
Grace Jisoo Kim, piano | 32 | Texas |
Student of Dr. Pamela Mia Paul | ||
Yanghee Park, piano | 35 | Ohio |
Student of Ian Hobson | ||
Ilia Radoslavov, piano | 39 | Alaska |
Second Prize | ||
Stefanos Melas, violin | 20 | Illinois |
Student of Robert Chen | ||
Michael Stewart, piano | 20 | Utah |
Student of Susan Duehlmeier | ||
Jee Eun Kim, piano | 20 | Indiana |
Student of Edward Auer and Junghwa Moon Auer | ||
Joseph Kingma, piano | 21 | Texas |
Student of Dr. Robert Roux | ||
Sun Joo Maria In, piano | 22 | Illinois |
Student of Kuang-Hao Huang | ||
Franky Leung, Jr., piano | 24 | California |
Student of Mack McCray | ||
Francis Shih, piano | 24 | Pennsylvania |
Student of Ralph Zitterbart | ||
Miriam Conti Vanoni, piano | 25 | Massachusetts |
Student of Vincenzo Baczani | ||
Heewon Park, violin | 25 | New York |
Student of Prof. Laurie Smuckler | ||
Jacqueline Leung, piano | 26 | Hong Kong |
Ai-Ying Chiu, piano | 27 | Massachusetts |
Yang Ding, piano | 28 | Missouri |
Student of Dr. Robert Weirich | ||
Sungchul Lee, piano | 29 | Massachusetts |
Student of Gabriel Chodos | ||
Eun Young Kang, piano | 32 | Michigan |
Student of Elizabeth Pridonoff | ||
Antonio Pastor, piano | 33 | Colorado |
Student of Dr. Andrew Cooperstock | ||
Sujung Cho, piano | 33 | Ohio |
Student of Awadagin Pratt | ||
Rebeca Boyd, violin | 34 | New York |
Student of Zvi Zeitlin | ||
Pia Bose, piano | 34 | Colorado |
Student of Dr. Andrew Cooperstock | ||
Eun Byol Ko, piano | 35 | Tennessi |
Student of James Tocco | ||
Kathy Leigh Ito, piano | 54 | California |
Alicia Grime, piano | 57 | Canada |
Other applicants received Diploma of Participation
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!