International Piano and Strings Competition 2013
The American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition 2013 was open to school students and adults of all nationalities and countries. All instruments, including piano, strings, voice and winds are welcome to participate in the Competition.
Participants were required to submit video/audio recording materials for the audition.
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 |
Awards
First, Second and Third Place winners performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Winners Concerts were held on:
Sunday, March 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 7:30 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Monday, May 27, 2013 (Memorial Day) at 3:30 PM and 7:30 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sunday, November 3, 2013 at 7:30 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Saturday, November 30, 2013 (Thanksgiving Weekend) at 11:30 AM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City
Judges’ Distinction Award and other Special Awards were granted based on the judges recommendations.
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 2013. 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 2013 Results
| Name | Age | Country/State |
| Age Group 6 to 10: | ||
| First Place Winners | ||
| Harmony Zhu, piano | 7 | Richmond Hill, Canada |
| Student of Li Wang | ||
| Michelle Stern, violin | 9 | Douglaston, NY |
| Student of Anna Heifetz | ||
| Jasper Heymann, piano | 10 | New York, NY |
| Student of Cosmo Buono | ||
| Tsotne Sidamonidze, piano | 10 | Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia |
| Student of Nato Magalashvili | ||
| Charlotte Miles, cello | 10 | Melbourne, Australia |
| Student of David Berlin | ||
| Second Place Winners | ||
| Ryan Wang, piano | 5 | West Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Fafan Xiao | ||
| Xinyi Wang, piano | 5 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Fafan Xiao | ||
| Anna Wang, piano | 8 | Westford, MA |
| Student of Yeehan Wu | ||
| Dylan Wu, cello | 8 | Manhasset, NY |
| Student of Minye Clara Kim | ||
| Anne-Marie Wnek, violin | 8 | Germantown, MD |
| Student of Rebecca Henry | ||
| Kyle Chen, piano | 9 | Bayside, NY |
| Student of Yuka Yoshino | ||
| Celena Ho, piano | 9 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Student of Dr. Tian Song | ||
| Matthew Ho, violin | 9 | Plano, TX |
| Student of Hsing Yi Lin | ||
| Tarisa Chanpong, piano | 9 | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Student of Dr. Pornphan Banternghansa | ||
| Ursula Hardianto, piano | 9 | La Jolla, CA |
| Student of Ariel Yang | ||
| Josephine Chan, piano | 9 | San Francisco, CA |
| Student of Meikui Matsushima | ||
| Rio Mangini, piano | 10 | Sherman Oaks, CA |
| Student of Gayane Sahakyan | ||
| Wiley Skaret, piano | 10 | Oakton, VA |
| Student of Dr. Marjorie Lee | ||
| John Zhao, piano | 10 | Midvale, UT |
| Student of Dr Lu, Ning and Dr Lu, Deng Jie | ||
| Jane Park, violin | 10 | Edgewater, NJ |
| Student of Mr. Khullip Jeung | ||
| Zhiyu Zhang, cello | 10 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Liu Dahai | ||
| Third Place Winners | ||
| Patricia Zhuge, piano | 6 | San Jose, CA |
| Student of Yu Na and Qi Kai | ||
| Malvyn Lai, piano | 7 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Dr. Irina Bendetsky | ||
| Kei Obata, violin | 7 | Mamaroneck, NY |
| Student of Keita Fukushima | ||
| Glenda Tay, piano | 7 | Singapore |
| Student of Christine Gan | ||
| Carol Chen, violin | 8 | Elmhurst, NY |
| Student of Yuanlin Chen | ||
| Kayla Cao, piano | 9 | Tulsa, OK |
| Student of Tatyana Lantos | ||
| Zoya Yan, violin | 9 | Eastchester, NY |
| Student of I Hao Lee | ||
| Bryan Kim, violin | 9 | Blacksburg, VA |
| Student of Vladimir Kromin | ||
| Lim Roxan, cello | 9 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Student of Tan Poh Joo | ||
| Aleena Li, piano | 10 | Overland Park, KS |
| Student of Ying-Yu Emily Yeh | ||
| Yifei Teng, piano | 10 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Teng Shichu | ||
| Yuri Taguchi, piano | 10 | Mamaroneck, NY |
| Student of Dr. Irena Portenko | ||
| Azalea Kelley, piano | 10 | New York, NY |
| Student of Dr. Emily White | ||
| Grace Lee, piano | 10 | Cypress, TX |
| Student of Mei Rui | ||
| Eilene Lee, violin | 10 | Leonia, NJ |
| Student of Dr. Yu Jeong Lee | ||
| Isabelle Brown-Lyden, cello | 10 | Alameda, CA |
| Student of Marcie Brown | ||
| Violin Duo: | ||
| Tyler Tan, violin | 8 | Cheshire, CT |
| Jessica Tan, violin | 12 | Cheshire, CT |
| Students of Shan Jiang | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Caleb Lin, violin | 7 | Morganville, NJ |
| Student of Jung Won Yoon | ||
| Tyler Tan, violin | 8 | Cheshire, CT |
| Student of Shan Jiang | ||
| Daniel Pan, piano | 9 | Cumming, GA |
| Student of Frances Yao | ||
| Celine Wang, piano | 9 | Williamsville, NY |
| Student of Violeta Arakelova | ||
| Jimena Rodríguez, piano | 9 | San José, Costa Rica |
| Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski, Tamara Meltser and Valentina Tumanova | ||
| Vivian Guo, piano | 9 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Ms. Hong Wang | ||
| Anthony Tan, Piano | 9 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Miranda Wu | ||
| Dylan Giglio, piano | 10 | Pelham, NY |
| Student of Natalia Budyonny | ||
| Max Juan, violin | 10 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| Student of Tan Poh Kim | ||
| Lexine Feng, cello | 10 | Duluth, GA |
| Student of Guang Wang | ||
| Clara Haslop, piano | 10 | Santa Monica, CA |
| Student of Natalie Dalschaert | ||
| Olga Kaminsky, violin | 10 | Brookline , MA |
| Student of Lilia Muchnik | ||
| Age Group 11 to 14: | ||
| First Place Winners | ||
| Brielle Perez, piano | 11 | Oradell, NJ |
| Student of Michael Thomopoulos | ||
| Megan Rabe, violin | 12 | Clarksville, MD |
| Student of Rebecca Henry | ||
| Mariam Chankvetadze, piano | 12 | Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia |
| Student of Nato Magalashvili | ||
| Gwyneth Campbell, piano | 13 | New York, NY |
| Student of Jeffrey Campbell | ||
| Areg Navasardyan, violin | 13 | Yerevan, Armenia |
| Student of Gagik Smbatyan | ||
| Erin Chen, piano | 13 | Cupertino, CA |
| Student of Nataly Gingis | ||
| Ilias Fourati, piano | 14 | Mount Kisco, NY |
| Student of Victoria Mushkatkol | ||
| Joshua Ng, piano | 14 | Ipoh, Malaysia |
| Student of Kok Kee Boon | ||
| Samantha Silverstein, violin | 14 | New Providence, NJ |
| Student of Khullip Jeung | ||
| Giovanni Andrea Zanon, violin | 14 | Castelfranco Veneto, Italy |
| Student of Roberto Zedda and Maurizio Sciarretta | ||
| Derek Louie, cello | 14 | New York, NY |
| Student of Clara Kim | ||
| Patrick Pan, piano | 14 | Houston, TX |
| Student of John Weems and Prof. Nancy Weems | ||
| Second Place Winners | ||
| David Kwak, violin | 11 | Phoenix, AZ |
| Student of Susanne Rothaar | ||
| Maria Lakisova, violin | 11 | Vernon Hills, IL |
| Student of Drew Lecher | ||
| Shira Fertel, violin | 11 | Baltimore, MD |
| Student of Emily Price | ||
| Kendra Lee, cello | 11 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| Daniel Seog, violin | 12 | Tenafly, NJ |
| Student of Khullip Jeung | ||
| Eunice Park, violin | 12 | Wayne, NJ |
| Student of Dr. Yu Jeong Lee | ||
| Tiffany Xu, piano | 12 | Sandy, UT |
| Student of Jie Lu and Ning Lu | ||
| Christy Cheung, piano | 12 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Student of Dr. Tian Song | ||
| Sean Lee, piano | 12 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of YoungSook Kang | ||
| Natasha Saputra, piano | 13 | Mason, OH |
| Student of Takako Hayase | ||
| Sophia Wong, piano | 13 | Houston, TX |
| Student of Dr. Mei Rui | ||
| David Lu, piano | 14 | Douglaston, NY |
| Student of Siyuan Zhou | ||
| Jack Li, piano | 14 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Dr. Sam Chou | ||
| Billy Wu, piano | 14 | Bellevue, WA |
| Student of Michi Hirata North | ||
| Szuyu Su, piano | 14 | Tainan City, Taiwan |
| Student of Chaoyin Chen | ||
| Velimir Kiosev, piano | 14 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Student of Emilia Kaneva | ||
| Amber Wolf, piano | 14 | Newton, MA |
| Student of Yoshie Akimoto | ||
| Thomas Nickell, piano | 14 | New York, NY |
| Student of Thomas Osuga | ||
| Yu Chun Cheng, viola | 14 | Tainan City, Taiwan |
| Student of Tomizawa Naoko | ||
| Andrew Kirjner, violin | 14 | New York, NY |
| Student of Elizabeth Faidley | ||
| Emily Kerr, violin | 14 | Ridgefield, CT |
| Student of Shan Jiang | ||
| Julia Zhu, violin | 14 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Hernan Constantino | ||
| Katherine Woo, violin | 14 | Greer, SC |
| Student of Deirdre Hutton | ||
| Memie Osuga, cello | 14 | New York, NY |
| Student of Alex Croxton | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Heather Huh, piano | 14 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Young Sook Kang | ||
| Joshua Yoo, piano | 14 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Young Sook Kang | ||
| Third Place Winners | ||
| Alexandra Nantier, cello | 11 | Faitfax Station, VA |
| Student of Dr. John Gevorkian | ||
| Ayane Nakajima, piano | 11 | New York, NY |
| Student of Dr.Hiromi Fukuda | ||
| Victor You, piano | 11 | Woodbridge, CT |
| Student of Ludmila Ozeryansky | ||
| Gabrielle Valerie Basuki, piano | 11 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Edith Claudia Atmadja | ||
| Hyun Gyu Seo, violin | 12 | Fresh Meadows, NY |
| Student of Jungwon Yoon | ||
| Annaliese Wee, piano | 12 | New York, NY |
| Student of Irina Morozova | ||
| Ava Hojreh, piano | 12 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Dr. Bella Tseng | ||
| Linna Yao, violin | 12 | SCARSDALE, NY |
| Student of Mr. Yang Xu | ||
| Rebecca Slater, violin | 12 | Summit, NJ |
| Student of Khullip Jeung | ||
| Ethan Shen, piano | 13 | Cumming, GA |
| Student of Keli Xu | ||
| Yuchen Gu, piano | 13 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Teng Shichu | ||
| Mary Anne Lee, piano | 13 | San Marcos, CA |
| Student of Inessa Litvin | ||
| Herbert Santoso, piano | 13 | San Marino, CA |
| Student of Michelle Jo Santoso | ||
| Alice Tang, piano | 14 | Alpharetta, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Daniel Yoon, piano | 14 | Frederick, MD |
| Student of Dr. Scott Beard | ||
| Alexia Lee, piano | 14 | Norwood, NJ |
| Student of Theresa Kim | ||
| Joyson Zhang, piano | 14 | Houston, TX |
| Student of Dr. Clive Swansbourne | ||
| Simon Ma, piano | 14 | New York, NY |
| Student of Inesa Sinkevych | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Irene Yi, cello | 11 | Tenafly, NJ |
| Student of Julia Minjeong Kang | ||
| Andrew Do, cello | 11 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| Alexander Zhang, violin | 11 | Trubmull, CT |
| Student of Shan Jiang | ||
| Helena Stojanov, piano | 11 | Belgrade, Serbia |
| Student of Jelena Mazibrada and Nena Vujosovic | ||
| Joshua Lin, violin | 11 | Morganville, NJ |
| Student of Jung Won Yoon | ||
| Sonal Gupta, viola | 12 | Princeton, NJ |
| Student of Paul Manulik and Hanfang Zhang | ||
| Cecilia Scott, piano | 12 | South St Paul, MN |
| Student of Catherine Kim | ||
| Gillian Schneider, piano | 12 | Scarsdale, NY |
| Student of Dr. Efrem Briskin | ||
| Christine Yang, piano | 13 | Cumming, GA |
| Student of Frances Yao | ||
| Jeffrey Weiner, piano | 14 | Tenafly, NJ |
| Student of Jungeun Kim | ||
| Olivia Long, piano | 14 | St Louis, MO |
| Student of Wen Shen | ||
| Emmalee Calvert, piano | 14 | Dripping Springs, TX |
| Student of Shannon Trompeter | ||
| Age Group 15 to 17: | ||
| First Place Winners | ||
| Megan Lee, piano | 15 | Hudson, OH |
| Student of Sean Schulze | ||
| Hyeri Bae, piano | 15 | Suwanee, GA |
| Student of Anatoly Sheludyakov | ||
| Spencer Sharp, violin | 15 | Marion, IL |
| Student of Dr. Won-Bin Yim | ||
| Michael Won, cello | 15 | Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
| Student of Minhye Clara Kim | ||
| Minira Najafzada, piano | 15 | Baku, Azerbaijan |
| Student of Zemfira Huseynova and Nigar Najafova | ||
| Lilian Jin, piano | 15 | Toronto, Canada |
| Student of Tanya Tkachenko | ||
| Alan Cha, piano | 16 | Cortlandt Manor, NY |
| Student of Tatiana Goncharova | ||
| Andrew Chan, piano | 16 | Palo Alto, CA |
| Student of Lena Grozman | ||
| Miru Osuga, violin | 16 | New york, NY |
| Student of Ann Setzer | ||
| Skye Kinlaw, violin | 17 | Frederick, MD |
| Student of Rebecca Henry | ||
| Jiwon Park, piano | 17 | Fort Wayne, IN |
| Student of Dr. Robert Palmer | ||
| Lucas McCabe, piano | 17 | Manalapan, NJ |
| Student of Alan Wasserman | ||
| Elias Butterfield, piano | 17 | Encinitas, CA |
| Student of Inessa Litvin | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Serina Chang, piano Duo | 15 | New York, NY |
| Alison Chang, piano Duo | 18 | New York, NY |
| Students of Yegor Shevtsov | ||
| “Opus 321” Piano Trio: | ||
| Katherine Park, violin | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Dana Freeman | ||
| Matthew Gustafson, cello | 16 | Long Beach, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| Natalie Cernius, piano | 16 | Newport Beach, CA |
| Student of Ana Maria Eckstein | ||
| Second Place Winners | ||
| Chaoyang Wang, piano | 15 | North Potomac, MD |
| Student of Faye Bonner and Shwu-Ching Jeng | ||
| Max Ma, piano | 15 | Newcastle, WA |
| Student of Nino Merabishvili | ||
| Mimi Meng, piano | 15 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Fafan Xiao | ||
| Stephen Wang, piano | 15 | Bellaire, TX |
| Student of Mr. Weems John | ||
| Irene Jeong, cello | 15 | Palo Alto, CA |
| Student of Jonathan Koh | ||
| Rochelle Lewis, cello | 16 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| William Hume, Piano | 16 | Yorktown, VA |
| Student of Dr. Anna Kijanowska and Susan Starr | ||
| Jason Kim, piano | 16 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Bernadene Blaha | ||
| Alexander Zhang, piano | 16 | Jamison, PA |
| Student of Joy Mary Kiszely | ||
| Yihao Yang, piano | 16 | New York, NY |
| Student of Spencer Myer and Jamie Goodnow | ||
| Stephen Lee, piano | 16 | New York, NY |
| Student of Dr. Amy Gustafson | ||
| Yunheng Zhu, piano | 16 | San Diego, CA |
| Student of Inessa Litvin | ||
| Xinran Wang, piano | 17 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Jin Aiping | ||
| Mingcheng Yu, piano | 17 | Alpharetta, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Daria Barabanova, piano | 17 | Moscow, Russia |
| Student of Tatyana Titova | ||
| James Choi, violin | 17 | Cockeysville, MD |
| Student of Klara Berkovich | ||
| Beatrice Zanon, violin | 17 | Castelfranco Veneto, Italy |
| Student of Sonig Tchakerian | ||
| Solomon Oak, violin | 17 | Harrington Park, NJ |
| Student of Dr. Yu Jeong Lee | ||
| Hoseon Sue Choi, violin | 17 | Devon, PA |
| Student of Guillaume Combet | ||
| Jiha Min, violin | 17 | New York, NY |
| Student of Min Sun Kim | ||
| Piano Duo/Four Hands: | ||
| Joe Parnell, piano | 17 | Mendota Heights, MN |
| Student of Dr. Catherine Kim | ||
| Piano Duo: | ||
| Ingrid Cai, violin | 16 | Johns Creek, GA |
| Student of Yang Que | ||
| Catherine Xie, piano | 16 | Johns Creek, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Third Place Winners | ||
| Sienna Tabron, piano | 15 | Wilkes Barre, PA |
| Student of Pamela Carroll | ||
| Kevin Chen, piano | 15 | San Marino, CA |
| Student of Jenny Shin | ||
| Joanne Do, violin | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Yookyung Oh | ||
| Daniel Cheng, viola | 15 | Singapore |
| Student of Luo Biao | ||
| Celine Chang, cello | 15 | Carpinteria, CA |
| Student of Min Young Park | ||
| Shujianing Li, piano | 15 | Jericho, NY |
| Student of Yeleno Fridman | ||
| Samantha Lee, Cello | 15 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| Sebastian Wilbert Basuki, piano | 15 | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Student of Edith Claudia Atmadja | ||
| Hueyjong Shih, violin | 16 | North Potomac, MD |
| Student of Chienmo Wu | ||
| Ingrid Cai, piano | 16 | Johns Creek, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Ingrid Cai, violin | 16 | Johns Creek, GA |
| Student of Yang Que | ||
| Vijay Reddy, cello | 16 | Anaheim Hills, CA |
| Student of Sarah Koo | ||
| Katherine Gershfeld, piano | 16 | Cheshire, CT |
| Student of Bella Keyzner | ||
| Yohan Kwon, piano | 16 | Old Greenwich, CT |
| Student of Mrs. Rebecca Leigh | ||
| David Weiner, piano | 16 | Tenafly, NJ |
| Student of Jungeun Kim | ||
| Timur Seckin, piano | 16 | Brooklyn, NY |
| Student of Vlademir Yudilevich | ||
| Justin Lee, piano | 16 | Duluth, GA |
| Student of Lois Finlay | ||
| William Yang, piano | 17 | Johns Creek, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Jisoo Mun, violin | 17 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of Haroutine Bedelian | ||
| Benjamin Lei, violin | 17 | Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Student of Betty-Jean Hagen | ||
| Linda Zhou, piano | 17 | Marietta, GA |
| Student of Ping Xu | ||
| Preston Jordan Lim, cello | 17 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Joseph Elworthy and Alex Lim | ||
| Kotaro Tsutsumi, violin | 17 | Irvine, CA |
| Student of William Fitzpatrick | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Sanchitha Balasubramanian, Piano | 15 | Monmouth Junction, NJ |
| Student of Gary Madison | ||
| Shuang Teng, piano | 16 | Basking Ridge, NJ |
| Student of Daniel Cataneo | ||
| Edward Yoon, piano | 16 | River Edge, NJ |
| Student of KyungMi Nam | ||
| Erica Lee, piano | 17 | Burnsville, MN |
| Student of Catherine Kim | ||
| Joshua Tam, piano | 17 | Duluth, GA |
| Student of Dr. Elena Cholakova | ||
| Sreejata Munsi, piano | 17 | Berwyn, PA |
| Student of Katarzyna Marzec-Salwinski | ||
| College students and professional musicians | ||
| First Place Winners | ||
| Xiaohui Yang, piano | 21 | Philadelphia, PA |
| Student of Ignat Solzhenitsyn | ||
| Fanya Lin, piano | 23 | Ogden, UT |
| Student of Yu-Jane Yang | ||
| Shanshan Wang, piano | 23 | Roslindale, MA |
| Henry Chen, cello | 23 | Rochester, NY |
| Student of Steven Doane and Ronald Leonard | ||
| Tye Austin Hoseclaw, classical guitar | 23 | Ashland, OR |
| Student of James Edwards | ||
| Bingxia Lu, cello | 24 | Los Angeles, CA |
| Student of Ralph Kirshbaum and Liwei Qin | ||
| Seo Hyun Lee, violin | 24 | Bloomington, IN |
| Student of Ik Hwan Bae | ||
| Jisun Kim, cello | 24 | Los Angeles, CA |
| Student of Andrew Shulman and Alan Harris | ||
| Viriany Setiosa, piano | 25 | Indonesia |
| Student of Nina Svetlanova and Ubaldo Diaz Acosta | ||
| Dmitry Silvian, cello | 25 | Paris, France |
| Student of Michel Strauss | ||
| Seohee Byun, violin | 26 | Urbana, IL |
| Student of Nelson Lee | ||
| Doyeon Kim, piano | 26 | Ann Arbor, MI |
| Student of Arthur Greene | ||
| Sina Kloke, piano | 26 | Yonkers, NY |
| Student of Prof. Matti Raekallio | ||
| Sun Min Kim, piano | 27 | Rochester, NY |
| Student of Nelita True | ||
| György Lakatos, violin | 27 | Budapest, Hungary |
| Student of Szenthelyi Miklos | ||
| Jacob Ertl, piano | 28 | Indiana, PA |
| Student of Nelita True | ||
| Maria Bessmeltseva, violin | 29 | Bowling Green, OH |
| Jungae Woo, piano | 29 | Minneapolis, MN |
| Student of Alexander Braginsky | ||
| ChunChi Chang, piano | 29 | Minneapolis, MN |
| Student of Alexander Braginsky | ||
| Jovanni Rey de Pedro, piano | 30 | Jackson, MS |
| Jooeun Pak, piano | 31 | Bloomington, IN |
| Student of Menahem Pressler and Edmund Battersby | ||
| Dahm Huh, viola | 31 | New York, NY |
| Shearom Chung, viola | 32 | Fairfax, VA |
| Cole Burger, piano | 33 | Bowling Green, OH |
| Minjeong Lee, piano | 33 | East Lansing, MI |
| Student of Doborah Moriarty | ||
| Ji Young Yoo, piano | 34 | Palisades Park, NJ |
| Student of Reiko Shigeoka Neriki and Deborah Moriarty | ||
| Jeong Ja Shim, piano | 34 | White Plains, NY |
| Hyejin Kim, viola | 34 | Laurel, MD |
| Student of Tsuna Sakamoto | ||
| Piano Duo: | ||
| Yun Jung, violin | 28 | Vancouver, Canada |
| Student of Scott Flavin | ||
| Adriana Teodoro Dier, piano | 28 | Coral Gables, FL |
| Student of Santiago Rodriguez and Paul Posnak | ||
| Piano duo: | ||
| Jiyong Kim, violin | 31 | Cincinnati, OH |
| Student of Dr. Won-Bin Yim | ||
| Jeongin Kim, piano | 33 | Cincinnati, OH |
| Student of Michael Chertock | ||
| Piano Duo, four hands: | ||
| Kristina Budvytyte, piano | 21 | Shilute, Lithuania |
| Adele Daunoraviciute, piano | 21 | Klaipeda, Lithuania |
| Students of Tatjana Romashkina | ||
| Liberté String Quartet: | ||
| Insun Kim, violin | 31 | Seoul, South Korea |
| Student of Anton Miller | ||
| Yunjoo Cho, viola | 30 | Seoul, South Korea |
| Student of CJ Chang | ||
| Hyejee Kang, cello | 24 | Seoul, South Korea |
| Hyunah Chang, violin | 30 | Boston, MA |
| Second Place Winners | ||
| Oh Hyun Kwon, Viola | 21 | Seoul, South Korea |
| Student of Prof. Eun Sik Choi | ||
| Molly Goldman, viola | 22 | Rochester, NY |
| Student of Carol Rodland | ||
| Ines Andrade, piano | 23 | New York, NY |
| Student of Jose Mendez | ||
| Adam von Housen, violin | 23 | Acworth, GA |
| Student of Helen Hwaya Kim | ||
| Ali Puskulcu, violin | 23 | New York, NY |
| Student of Rosa Fain | ||
| Yao Lin, piano | 25 | DeKalb, IL |
| Student of William Goldenberg | ||
| Chen Wang, piano | 26 | Beijing, China |
| Student of Wang Yadan | ||
| Alexander Zlatin, piano | 28 | Hempstead, NY |
| Student of Tamara Poddubnaya | ||
| Claire Wang, piano | 29 | Northridge, CA |
| Student of Ming Tsu and David Roitstein | ||
| Mikyung Lim, piano | 42 | Buena Park, CA |
| Student of Adam Wodnicki | ||
| Suhyoung Park, piano | 47 | Champaign, Il |
| Student of Prof. William Heiles | ||
| Amateur Category: | ||
| Sara Ma, piano | 18 | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Student of Ya Liu | ||
| Christine Lee, piano | 34 | Santa Clarita, CA |
| Third Place Winners | ||
| Lok Yan Charlotte Tang, piano | 19 | Richmond, VA |
| Student of Eos Cheng | ||
| Hao Zhang, piano | 19 | Jinan, China |
| Student of Chuan Qin | ||
| David Abdurachmanov, piano | 24 | Jamaica, NY |
| Student of Donald Pirone | ||
| Andrew Focks, piano | 24 | Houston, TX |
| Student of Jon Kimura Parker | ||
| Yoon Hye Ji, piano | 32 | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Student of Andrew Cooperstock | ||
| Honorable Mention | ||
| Jingyu Xiao, piano | 32 | Santa Clara, CA |
| Sungyo Lee, piano | 35 | Denton, TX |
| Student of Adam Wodnicki | ||
| Asaki Nakagawa, piano | 47 | Wynnewood, PA |
| Yuksel Dural, piano | 63 | Ankara, Turkey |
| Amateur Category: | ||
| James Choi, cello | 24 | Philadelphia, PA |
| Student of Audrey Nodwell | ||
| Kingsley Matthew, piano | 42 | New York, NY |
| Student of Emily White | ||
Other applicants received Diploma of Participation
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WINNERS!