2022 Seattle International Piano Competition Winners
Winners, Finalists, and Semi-finalists of the 2022 Competition. This page will be updated as the jurors’ scores are tabulated.
Professional
Gold Medalist: Pui Yee Angela Lau (Hong Kong)
Silver Medalist: Zehao Bai (China)
Bronze Medalist: Yupeng Mei (China)
Audience Favorite Award: Zehao Bai (China)
President’s Prize for the Best Performance of a Work by Schumann or Brahms: Robert Brooks Carlson (USA)
Best Performance of…
a short character work by either Claude Debussy or Maurice Ravel (under 4 minutes in duration): Pui Yee Angela Lau (Hong Kong)
a Mazurka by Karol Szymanowski: Gabriel Merrill-Steskal (USA)
2022 Finalists: Zehao Bai (China), Robert Brooks Carlson (USA), Yi-Hsuan Lee (Taiwan), Yupeng Mei (China), Gabriel Merrill-Steskal (USA), Joseph Vaz (USA), Anna Yukho (Belarus), and Pui Yee Angela Lau (Hong Kong)
Instructors of the Finalists (in alphabetical order): Natalya Antonova, Arthur Greene, Soyeon Kate Lee, Marina Lomazov, Julian Martin, Joseph Rackers, Robert Roux, and Logan Skelton.
Unranked Semi-finalists (in alphabetical order): Heejin An (South Korea), Michael Dodds (United States), Yi-Chen Feng (Taiwan), Benjamin Hopkins (United States), Lyndon Ji (United States), Hyeseon Jin (South Korea), Aaron Kurz (United States), Aoshuang Li (China), Ching-Yi Lin (Taiwan), Xianfei Liu (China), Jonathan Mamora (United States), Vikram Rajan (India), Yoon-Wha Roh (South Korea), Keer Wang (China), and John Wilson (United States).
Collegiate
Gold Medalist: Muzi Zhao (China)
Silver Medalist: Cameron Akioka (USA)
Bronze Medalist: Zhengyi Huang (China)
Audience Favorite Award: Cameron Akioka (USA)
James Miles Memorial Presidential Prize: Cameron Akioka (awarded by President, Dr. Ivona Kaminska and Helena Azevedo)
2022 Finalists: Cameron Akioka (USA), Jianyi Gu (China), Zhengyi Huang (China), Jung Eun Kim (South Korea), and Muzi Zhao (China)
Instructors of the Finalists (in alphabetical order): Boris Berman, Alan Chow, Jeffrey Kahane, Yoshi Nagai, Jon Nakamatsu, and Logan Skelton.
Unranked Semi-Finalists: Sakurako Jayne Abe (Canada), Eunseon Ahn (South Korea), Xingyi Chen (Hong Kong), Zixin Chen (China), Matthew S Figel (USA), Tarje D Grover (USA), Yungyung Guo (China), Hanxiao Lai (China), Jiyeon Lee (South Korea), Hao Liu (China), Jie Luo (China), Nikolai Dmitrievich Nesterov (Russia), Xu Peng (China), Nicholaus C Poelwijk (USA), Jenna Aziza D Salliman (Philippines), Mira Carole Walker (USA), Yiguo Wang (China), You Wu (China), Rui-jia Yang (China), Xinyue Yang (China), Ivan Yumagulov (USA), Yinteng Zhao (China).
Youth, Ages 14-18
Gold Medalist: Matthew Scott (USA)
Silver Medalist: James McKay (USA)
Bronze Medalist: Elsie Lu (Canada)
Audience Favorite Award: Owen Yisu Wang (Canada)
Best Performance of…
an Etude by Nikolai Kapustin: Ella Cho (USA)
2022 Finalists: Jie Liang (New Zealand), Megan Lo (Canada), Elsie Lu (Canada), James McKay (USA), Matthew Scott (USA), and Owen Yisu Wang (Canada)
Instructors of the Finalists: Songwen Li, Lang Ning Liu, Ronald Morgan, Gabriel Sanchez, Jenny Shin, Sasha Starcevich, and Stephen Thomas.
Unranked Semi-finalists (in alphabetical order): Jeslyn Z Cai (USA), Celine A Chen (USA), Frederick Chiu (USA), Xiaolu Guo (China), Matthew Hahn (USA), Yuxiang Ji (China), Benjamin Jiang (USA), Vivian Kao (USA), Phatthicha Leowattana (Thailand), James Liu (USA),Yanjiahe Liu (China), Megumi Maekawa (Japan), Pinn Zheng Mahasaranond (Thailand), Austin Ng (Canada), Yechong (Eric) Shan (China), Nathaniel Su (USA), Rebecca M Sun (USA), Sara Tardif (USA), Chau Minh Tran (Vietnam), Darren Tsai (Canada), Henry Tushman (USA), William Wang (USA), Paul Wang (Canada), Han Mo Wang (China), Ziyue Zeng (China), and Jonathan Y Zheng (USA).
Instructors of the Semi-Finalists:
Youth, Ages 10-13
Gold Medalist: Jacob Rockower (USA)
Silver Medalist: Zichen Ma (China)
Bronze Medalist: Heming Yu (China)
Audience Favorite Award: Zichen Ma (China)
Best Performance of…
an Etude by Nikolai Kapustin: Zichen Ma (China)
2022 Finalists: Isabella Kirillova (Russia/USA), Zichen Ma (China), Chanya Methaprayoon (USA), Jacob Rockower (USA), Meining Wu (USA), Heming Yu (China)
Instructors of the Finalists (in alphabetical order): Hans Boepple, Weiling Chen, Natalia Dolenko, Hongbo Quan, John Weems
Unranked Semi-finalists (in alphabetical order): Brielle A Bryant (USA), Stephanie Cheng (USA), Isaac Choi (USA), Joy Chuang (Taiwan), Hiroshi Corro (USA), Sora Corro (USA), Evan Dan (USA), Joanna Edwin (USA), Isabel Feng(USA), William Feng (Canada), David Gatien (USA), Victoria Huang (USA), Wei-Ning I Ko (USA), Louis Kwong Ching Li (Hong Kong), Ariel Yixuan Liu (Canada), Melanie Yutong Liu (USA), Thannapas Luanpitpong (Thailand), Brayden Miao (USA), Kye Lie Ng (Singapore), Yuna Noh (USA), Emily Qi (USA), Thatarat Vanichkobchinda (Thailand), Eric Yiyan Wang (USA), Arisa Wangwittaya (Thailand), Tiger Kaiyi Wu (Canada)
Youth, Ages 9 and under
Gold Medalists: Richard Jiang (USA), Andrew Sun-Zhuang (USA), Dana Wang (USA), Nicole Wang (USA), Nina Zhang (USA)
Audience Favorite Award: Andrew Sun-Zhuang (USA)
Instructors of the Winners: Akiko Gaffney, Ivona Kaminska, Ni Liu, Stephanie Neeman, Peter Mack
Unranked Semi-Finalists: Claire Chen (USA), Ethan Z Cheng (USA), Gaius SK Dail (USA), Nathan Jiao (USA), Amberly Koh (USA), Alex Li (USA), Eli Enyi Li (USA), Minlada Tangmanophienchai (Thailand), Jessie Yimeng Wu (USA), Katherine Xiao (USA), Irene Xu (USA), Siyi Xu (USA), Bella Zhang (USA), Sophia Zhong (USA)
Outstanding Amateurs
Gold Medalists: Yuan (Diana) Gao (China), Daisy Gilman (USA), Cindy Lu (USA), John Teti (USA), Dhammarin Tularatruengnam (Thailand)
Audience Favorite Award: Cindy Lu (USA)
Instructors of the Winners: Nina Ferrigno, Robin McCabe, Christopher Janwong McKiggan, Susan Merdinger, William Chapman-Nyaho