International Piano and Strings Competition 2011
The American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2011 attracted extremely large number of very competitive applicants from across the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Mongolia, Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Australia, Costa Rica and Saint Marten.
The Winners Recitals were held at the Weill Recital Hal at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Sunday, March 6, 2011 at 1:00PM and at 6:30PM, and on Saturday March 12, 2011 at 1:00 PM
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 2011. 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 2011 Results
| Group | Age | Country/State |
| Age Group 6 to 10: | ||
| First Prize Winners | ||
| Caitlan Rinaldy, piano | 7 | Western Australia |
| Student of Yoon Sen Lee | ||
| Parker Van Ostrand, piano | 7 | Sacramento, CA |
| Student of Linda Nakagawa | ||
| Michelle Stern, violin | 7 | Douglaston, NY |
| Student of Anna Heifetz | ||
| Viona Natalie Sanjaya, piano | 8 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Hendrata Prasetia | ||
| Noelle Midori Naito, violin | 8 | Elkridge, MD |
| Student of Olga Khroulevitch | ||
| Ziyao Chelsea Guo, piano | 10 | Darien, CT |
| Student of Svitlana Fiorito | ||
| Kenneth Ryu Naito, violin | 10 | Elkridge, MD |
| Student of Shirley Givens | ||
| Dawn Kim, violin | 10 | Manhasset Hills, NY |
| Student of I-Hao Lee | ||
| Piano trio/six hands: | ||
| Aika Kojima | 7 | Houston, TX |
| Rino Fujimoto | 9 | Houston, TX |
| Yuki Kono | 10 | Houston, TX |
| Students of Dr. Kana Mimaki | ||
| Second Prize Winners | ||
| Marc Soong, piano | 7 | Alhambra, CA |
| Student of Michelle Jo Santoso | ||
| Star Jessalyn Sunaryadi, piano | 7 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Hendrata Prasetia | ||
| Kevin Ou, piano | 8 | Rowland Heights, CA |
| Student of Michelle Jo Santoso | ||
| Eric Dong, piano | 8 | Temple City, CA |
| Student of Michelle Jo Santoso | ||
| Varvara Soyfer, piano | 8 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Natalia Liviani Tandiono, piano | 8 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Hendrata Prasetia | ||
| Jasper Heymann, piano | 8 | New York, NY |
| Student of Cosmo Buono | ||
| Vi Nguyen, piano | 9 | Manvel, TX |
| Student of Clive Swansbourne | ||
| Melodey Soong, piano | 9 | Alhambra, CA |
| Student of Michelle Jo Santoso | ||
| Ginevra Costantini Negri, piano | 10 | Milano, Italy |
| Student of Francesca Carola | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Dominic Pang, piano | 7 | Folsom, CA |
| Rio Mangini, piano | 8 | Sherman Oaks, CA |
| Lauren Li, piano | 8 | San Marino, CA |
| Emily Zhang, piano | 9 | Sandy, UT |
| Kyle Shin, piano | 9 | Akron, OH |
| Lynn Gong, piano | 9 | Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
| Rino Fujimoto, piano | 9 | Houston, TX |
| Lynn Gong, piano | 9 | Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
| Ana Laura Sanchez Retana, piano | 9 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Henry Peyton Barbour, Piano | 9 | Alexandria, VA |
| Elisa Yi, violin | 10 | Clarence, NY |
| Janet Hsu, violin | 10 | Roslyn, NY |
| Margaret Adedamola, violin | 10 | Norwell, MA |
| Maxamillion Simeone, piano | 10 | New York, NY |
| Rachelle Huh, violin | 10 | Demarest, NJ |
| Julian Rhee, violin | 10 | Brookfield, WI |
| Keven Zhang, piano | 10 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Richard Dong, piano | 10 | Temple City, CA |
| Alissa Yuki Kono, piano | 10 | Houston, TX |
| Jacob VanDerWerf, violin | 10 | Steamboat Springs, CO |
| Piano Duo/four hands: | ||
| Kevin Ou, Piano | 8 | Rowland Heights, CA |
| Melodey Soong, Piano | 9 | Alhambra, CA |
| Age Group 11 to 14: | ||
| First Prize Winners | ||
| Futian Yao, piano | 11 | Toronto, Canada |
| Student of Tanya Tkachenko | ||
| Li Yiming, piano | 11 | Hong Kong |
| Student of Dr. Claire Chiu | ||
| Alexander Lu, piano | 11 | Redmond, WA |
| Student of Peter Mack and Michi Hirata North | ||
| Tianjie Guan, piano | 11 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Izolda Zemskova | ||
| Evelyn Zainal Abidin, piano | 11 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Hendrata Prasetia | ||
| Fang Qing Cai, piano | 11 | St. Marten |
| Student of Irina Kaufman | ||
| Melanie Hebert, piano | 12 | Ottawa, Canada |
| Student of Ioulia Brechun | ||
| Alan Yao, violin | 12 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Lewis Kaplan | ||
| Tiffany Kang, violin | 12 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sam Fischer | ||
| Aubree Oliverson, violin | 12 | Orem, Utah |
| Student of Eugene Watanabe | ||
| Qingxi Meng, piano | 13 | Guangzhou, China |
| Student of Lai Jin | ||
| Ila Shon, cello | 13 | Portola Valley, CA |
| Student of Sieun Lin | ||
| Calvin Lee, piano | 14 | Rosemead, CA |
| Student of Jenny Shin | ||
| Alexis Lerner, violin | 14 | Upper Saddle River, NJ |
| Student of Ella Heifets | ||
| Second Prize Winners | ||
| Fang Ming Cai, piano | 11 | St. Marten |
| Student of Irina Kaufman | ||
| Patrick Pan, piano | 12 | Houston, TX |
| Student of John Weews | ||
| Alan Cha, piano | 14 | Cortlandt Manor, NY |
| Student of Tatiana Goncharova | ||
| Gillian Geraldine, piano | 14 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Hendrata Prasetia | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| George Amitabh Asokumar, piano | 11 | Pelham, NY |
| Sebastian Barrientos Espeleta, piano | 11 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Ben Rhee, violin | 11 | Syosset, NY |
| Sammy Andronian, cello | 12 | Lincoln, MA |
| Jasmine Groves, piano | 12 | Miami, FL |
| Pamela Ramirez, piano | 12 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Thomas Nickell, piano | 12 | New York, NY |
| Hyeri Bae, piano | 13 | Suwanee, GA |
| Jasper Rogal, violin | 13 | Croton-on-Hudson, NY |
| Alina Taraban, piano | 13 | Funchal, Portugal |
| Umyeena Bashir, violin | 13 | Plano, TX |
| Qin Qin, piano | 14 | Hong Kong |
| Rafael Kyrychenko, piano | 14 | Azores, Portugal |
| Patrick Brandl, piano | 14 | Heredia, Costa Rica |
| Andrew Chan, piano | 14 | Palo Alto, CA |
| Tiffany Cheng, violin | 14 | Cambridge, MA |
| Soh Kuan Wei, piano | 14 | Singapore |
| Maarij Bashir, piano | 14 | Plano, TX |
| Yasmin Yacoby, cello | 14 | Newton, MA |
| Emily Chen, violin | 14 | Closter, NJ |
| Alexander Zhang, piano | 14 | Jamison, PA |
| Age Group 15 to 18: | ||
| First Prize Winners | ||
| Richard Shin, piano | 15 | Baltimore, MD |
| Student of Yong Hi Moon and Dr. Scott Beard | ||
| Edward Yoon, piano | 15 | Frederick, MD |
| Student of Dr. Scott Beard | ||
| Daniel Eras Saborio, piano | 15 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Shir Victoria Levy, violin | 16 | New York, NY |
| Student of Stephan Jackiw and Donald Weillerstein | ||
| Yun Wei, piano | 16 | New York, NY |
| Student of Robert McDonald | ||
| Jessica Ma, piano | 16 | Irvine, CA |
| Students of Ethan Dong | ||
| Yoonji Seo, piano | 16 | Lawrence, KS |
| Student of John McIntyre | ||
| Francisco Chomnalez, piano | 16 | New York, NY |
| Student of Maria Asteriadou | ||
| Zoe Miller, violin | 17 | Brookfield, CT |
| Student of Elizabeth Faidley | ||
| Tamir Ganzorig, violin | 17 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Student of L. Altantsetseg | ||
| Giuseppe Gil, piano | 18 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Alexandra Birch, viola | 18 | Tempe, AZ |
| Student of Prof. Nancy Buck | ||
| Filip Tomic, cello | 18 | Kragujevac, Serbia |
| Student of Aleksey Seleznev | ||
| Piano Duo: | ||
| Sophia Dao, piano | 17 | Bellaire, TX |
| Student of Dr. Kana Mimaki | ||
| Simon Lee, cello | 18 | Houston, TX |
| Student of Haeri Ju | ||
| Piano Duo/four hands: | ||
| Danika Li, piano | 14 | Sandy, UT |
| Sara Ma, piano | 16 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Students of Ya Liu | ||
| Second Prize Winners | ||
| Wenting Luo, piano | 17 | Zhu Hai City, China |
| Student of Xiaolan Lou | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Carson Malen, piano | 15 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Yunsu Jenna Lee, violin | 15 | McLean, VA |
| Alexandra Zhang, violin | 15 | Berwyn, PA |
| Ruyan Zhang, piano | 15 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Jessica Richards, piano | 15 | Sandy, UT |
| Jennifer Kuh, piano | 15 | Flemington, NJ |
| Richard Lee, piano | 15 | Bayside, NY |
| Griffin Stoller, violin | 16 | Belvedere, CA |
| Pradeesh Suganthan, piano | 16 | Hatfield, PA |
| Sherry Wu, piano | 16 | Tustin, CA |
| Kathy Chen, piano | 16 | Richmond Hill, Canada |
| Stephen Xi, violin | 16 | Plano, TX |
| Sandra Zupanski, violin | 16 | Fort Collins, CO |
| Katherine Lee, violin | 16 | Livingston, NJ |
| Jocelyn Zhu, violin | 16 | Canton, MS |
| Kathy Qiu, piano | 17 | Champaign, IL |
| Jae Hyun Kim, piano | 17 | Ridgewood, NY |
| Vanessa Wall, piano | 17 | South Jordan, UT |
| Alexandra Birch, violin | 18 | Tempe, AZ |
| Justin Ying, violin | 18 | West Chester, PA |
| College Students and Professionals: | ||
| First Prize Winners | ||
| Priscella Chan, piano | 19 | Arcadia, CA |
| Student of Jennifer Tao | ||
| Daniela Rodo, piano | 19 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski and Pascal Nemirovski | ||
| Aileen Li, piano | 19 | Flushing, NY |
| Student of Marilyn Nonken | ||
| Francisco García Fullana, violin | 20 | New York, NY |
| Student of Masao Kawasaki | ||
| Jared Miller, piano | 22 | New York, NY |
| Student of Samuel Adler and Sara Davis Buechner | ||
| Egle Jarkova, violin | 22 | Boston, MA |
| Student of Lynn Chang | ||
| Jose Pablo Quesada, piano | 23 | Fort Worth, TX |
| Student of Dr. Tamas Ungar | ||
| Furkan Ozyazici, piano | 23 | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Student of Andrei Diev | ||
| Dror Baitel, piano | 24 | New York, NY |
| Mari Black, violin | 24 | Cambridge, MA |
| Student of Bonnie Black | ||
| Adam Cordle, viola | 24 | Gettysburg, PA |
| In Hyun Lee, piano | 25 | Boston, MA |
| Student of Alexsander Korsantin | ||
| Karali Hunter, piano | 25 | Gilbert, AZ |
| Student of Baruch Meir | ||
| Ilya Dobrovitsky, violin | 25 | Rockville, MD |
| Student of Mikhail Kopelman | ||
| Jee Eun Song, cello | 25 | Seoul, Korea |
| Student of Aldo Parisot | ||
| Jeremiah Johnson, piano | 26 | Lincoln, NE |
| Student of Mark Clinton | ||
| Inhyung Jang, piano | 27 | Seoul, Korea |
| Student of Ikjoo Moon | ||
| Keun Hwa Kim, violin | 28 | East Setauket, NY |
| Student of Philip Setzer and Soovin Kim | ||
| Wei Wei Tan, viola | 29 | London, United Kingdom |
| Student of George Taylor | ||
| EunMi Ko, piano | 30 | Rochester, NY |
| Students of Rebecca Penneys | ||
| Soim Yoon, violin | 31 | Cleveland, OH |
| Student of Joel Smirnoff | ||
| Cully Bell, piano | 31 | Cincinnati, OH |
| Student of Elizabeth Pridonoff | ||
| Sunhye Shim, piano | 34 | Urbana, IL |
| Student of Ian Hobson | ||
| So Hee Lee, piano | 36 | Highland Park, NJ |
| Student of Prof. Min Kwon | ||
| JI-Young Jeoung, piano | 37 | Carmel, IN |
| Student of Dr. Robert Palmer | ||
| Violin and Piano Duo: | ||
| Sini Virtanen, violin | 26 | Rochester, NY |
| Student of Mikhail Kopelman | ||
| EunMi Ko, piano | 30 | Rochester, NY |
| Students of Rebecca Penneys | ||
| Clarinet and Piano Duo: | ||
| Danila Efremov, clarinet | 22 | Novosibirsk, Russia |
| Ekaterina Predvechnova, Piano | 24 | Novosibirsk, Russia |
| Students of Dina Shevchenko | ||
| Voice and Piano Duo: | ||
| Charlotte Cromheeke, soprano | 21 | Orp-Jauche, Belgium |
| Student of Anne Cambier | ||
| Aaron Wajnberg, Piano | 22 | Antwerp, Belgium |
| Student of Levente Kende | ||
| Second Place Winners | ||
| Irene Alfaro, piano | 19 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Eduardo Montero Mata, piano | 19 | Heredia, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Mario Jimenez, piano | 19 | San Jose, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Sumika Shiokawa, piano | 20 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Dr. Jennifer Snow | ||
| Hung Po Lai, piano | 22 | Hong Kong |
| Student of Carol Yu | ||
| Ani Gyulamiryan, piano | 22 | Aurora, CO |
| Student of David Genova | ||
| Sheng Zhang, cello | 23 | Azusa, CA |
| Student of Marek Szpakiewicz | ||
| Valeria Delgado, piano | 23 | Heredia, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski | ||
| Abigail Gioja, piano | 24 | Urbana, IL |
| Student of Timothy Ehlen | ||
| Franky Leung, Jr., piano | 25 | San Francisco, CA |
| Student of Mack McCray | ||
| Akino Nishizawa, piano | 25 | Stuttgart, Germany |
| Student of Florian Wiek | ||
| Amaury Morales, piano | 25 | Pittsburg, PA |
| Student of Sergey Schepkin | ||
| Minjoo Choo, piano | 26 | Brookline, MA |
| Student of Boaz Sharon | ||
| Ah Yeon Jung, piano | 26 | Allston, MA |
| Student of Gila Goldstein | ||
| Mei-Fang Wang, violin | 27 | Urbana, IL |
| Student of Sibbi Bernhardsson | ||
| Moonki Cho, piano | 27 | Cleveland, OH |
| Student of Antonio Pompa-Baldi | ||
| Heesun Yun, piano | 27 | Denton, TX |
| Student of Adam Wodnicki | ||
| Mi Hye Kwon, piano | 28 | East Lansing, MI |
| Student of George Vatchnadze | ||
| Kayla Wong, piano | 28 | Moose Jaw, Canada |
| Nathalie Zweifel, piano | 29 | Emmenbruecke, Switzerland |
| Student of Hiroko Sakagami | ||
| Hee Sung Jang, piano | 29 | Austin, TX |
| Student of Anton Nel | ||
| Bora Kim, piano | 30 | Minneapolis, MN |
| Student of Paul Shaw | ||
| Magdalina Melkonyan, piano | 30 | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Hannah Yu, violin | 32 | Jersey City, NJ |
| Jihun Cho, piano | 33 | Madison, WI |
| Student of Christopher Taylor | ||
| Soojin Lee, viola | 33 | Dublin, OH |
| Student of Masao Kawasaki and Dr. Catharine Carroll | ||
| Jisook Park, piano | 33 | Metairie, LA |
| Jee Won Yang, piano | 34 | Urbana, IL |
| Student of Ian Hobson | ||
| Yiu-Hsuan Liao, piano | 36 | New York, NY |
| Hyun-Jin Kwon, piano | 36 | Seoul, Korea |
| Yongsun Kwon, violin | 36 | Seoul, Korea |
| Student of Eugene Gratovich | ||
| Young Hee Park, piano | 37 | Savoy, IL |
| Student of Ian Hobson | ||
| Jeong-Lim Kim, piano | 41 | St Paul, MN |
| Student of Lydia Artemiw | ||
| Kathy L. Ito, piano | 55 | San Marcos, CA |
Other applicants received Diploma of Participation
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!