Virtuoso Artists Festival Results
Update 7/18/2024: All certificates and comment sheets have been sent by email to the teacher listed on your application. If you didn’t list a teacher, it will be in your email. Teachers, please check your junk/spam folders if the email doesn’t appear in your inbox.
As a reminder, all results are final and cannot be appealed. We thank you for your participation, and we are grateful for the expertise and energy of our jurors, Junheng Chen, Alexandre Dossin, Oana Rusu Tomai, Chen Liang, and Minji Noh — all of whom greatly enjoyed hearing your submissions. Further instructions, as well as medal and comment sheet distribution will be published in the coming days. Note that some participants who did not receive a prize are not listed below but will receive participation certificates.
All participants are to be congratulated on your dedication and hard work! Congratulations to the performers, families, and many talented instructors that made this event possible.
Concerto, Chamber music, and non-piano instrumental
Concerto (non-piano) 13 years and under
Gold Medal: Joy Zhan, Nathaniel Kim
Silver Medal: Victoria Cui, Stephen Cui, Charlene Chen
Bronze Medal: Dana (Chingyu) Lin
Honorable Mention: Mowen Zhao
Concerto (non-piano) 14 – 18 years
Gold Medal: Julia Yi, Zihan Fang
Silver Medal: Ziyun Pei
Bronze Medal: Leah Everling
Honorable Mention: Tara Saini
Concerto (piano) 13 years and under
Gold Medal: Patrick Yoon
Concerto (piano) 14 – 18 years
Distinguished Gold Medal: Avery Pun
Gold Medal: Audrey Yang, Eric Qian
Silver Medal: Alexander Du
Bronze Medal: Kosta Kapsalis
Chamber Music 13 years and under
Gold Medal: Ella and Jacob Nikulin
Chamber Music 14 – 18 years
Gold Medal: Caileen Wan, Avery Pun, and Ayar Newman
Silver Medal: Emma Le Metzger, Galen Belding, Hannah Girges, Katie Yu, and Nathan Choy
Bronze Medal: Jason and Jane Kwon
Honorable Mention: Cornelia Busuioc and Melissa Zberea
Instrumental (non-piano) single works 9 – 10 years
Gold Medal: Joy Zhan, Chloe Wu, Samuel Kim
Silver Medal: Shanni Li, Vincent Yue
Bronze Medal: Clora Huang, Ivy Qi
Instrumental (non-piano) single works 11 – 12 years
Gold Medal: Iris Liu
Silver Medal: Charlene Chen
Instrumental (non-piano) single works 13 – 14 years
Gold Medal: Chloe Cao
Silver Medal: David Kim
Instrumental (non-piano) single works 15 – 16 years
Gold Medal: Changle Wang, Irisia Li
Silver Medal: Flora Yang
Bronze Medal: Jeri Zhou
Piano – Single and Multiple Works
Single Works age 8 and under
Distinguished Gold Medal: Daniel Wang, Rusong An
Gold Medal: Jeffrey Lou, Emily Xiao, Sofia Yu, Andrew Cen, Kaden Nguyen, Marshall Chen, Isabelle Ye, Rebecca Li
Silver Medal: Irene Gao, Adorace Liu, Lucas Fei, Ruby Zhao, Julien Wang, Yiming Zheng, Zoey Zhang, Eliza Wang, Terence Wu
Bronze Medal: April Wang, Riley Shen, Jasper Zhu, Emilia Demko, Summer Guo, Claire Ji, Olivia Lau
Honorable Mention: Phatteera Tejavibulya, Aimee Liao, Leah Zberea, Tiansheng Shi, Alexia Gantukh, Iris Abbasi, Eric Zhan, Brian Li, Ethan Ma, Elise Eisele
Single Works age 9 – 10 years (A)
Distinguished Gold Medal: Alvin Lee
Gold Medal: Zhixuan Lyu, Samuil McArthur, Molly Wu, Annika Holland, Alexander Wang, Wesley Wang, Farrah Lee
Silver Medal: Aiden Dong, Aden Huang, Liam Sun, Siyi Xu
Bronze Medal: Isabella Liu, Ennian Lu, Jasper Wu, Adalyn Ng, Yutong Xie
Honorable Mention: Sinne Collin, Isabelle Lowe-Norris, Hugo Dockter, Scarlett Lo, Troy Tosukhowong
Single Works age 9 – 10 years (B)
Distinguished Gold Medal: Crystal Jiao
Gold Medal: Lucas Zheng, Ethan Xu
Silver Medal: Jason Gao, Wenxuan Huang, Roy Kim, Gillian Liu
Bronze Medal: Catherine Zhu, Lili Wei, Celine Huang, Jamie Ma
Honorable Mention: Olivia Lee, Rachel Zhu, Evelyn Xu, Gilbert Liu, Shashank Srinivasan, Kaysie Nguyen, William Wang, Jenna Huang
Single Works age 11 – 12 years (A)
Gold Medal: Aaron Jin, Timon Shin, Stanley Hyun, Austin Miao, Inez Ko, Joyce Wang, Simon Zhu, Ivy Zheng
Silver Medal: Raegan Kim, Charles Miao, Alisa Yunin, Ian Kang, William Hu, Amelia Du, Aaron Wang, Jeremy Lien, Zoey Kasad, Jacob Nikulin, Abrisham Fayazbakhsh, Steffi Lau
Bronze Medal: TianHao Xu, Fitzhugh McCullough, Yevin Widanalage, Leonart Wang, Jiayun Li, Julia Huang, Kaleb Sheldon Kan, Khanh Pham, Matthew Fu, Lillian Mergler, Alina LI
Single Works age 11 – 12 years (B)
Distinguished Gold: Lele Liu, William Feng
Gold Medal: Ian Fung, Yunfei (Joanna) Huang, Ru-Shan An, Andrew Liang
Silver Medal: Aquila Wu, Yelin Liu, Lucas Popescu, Melody Chen, Lucas Corcoro, Jiaqiao Gu, Benjamin Podebrad
Bronze Medal: Wanwan Cheng, Arjun Bhate, Anya Parson, Aya Yuanlong Glass, Leah Huang, Jessica Xie, Xiangrui Kong, JingYan Xu, David Samuel
Honorable Mention: Elia Sofia Corona Suarez, Sasha Federov, Aneesh Iyer, Raymond Guo, Advika Ajay, Armen Dockter, Diya Karthik
Single Works age 13 – 14 years (A)
Distinguished Gold Medal: Albert Zhang
Gold Medal: Alexander Vollmer, Kyle Liao, David Zhang, Hadassah Ho, Caileen Wan, Toko Ota
Silver Medal: Bao-Chi Tran, Ryan Pilat, Kevin He, Urban Shin, Emily Zhang, Eva Akulova, Chloe Mergler, Elliot Lee
Bronze Medal: Ria Gupta, Nora Seide, Luke Yuan, Zoe Glass, Frances Shen, Kevin Song, Amour Luo, Anessa McCullough
Single Works age 13 – 14 years (B)
Distinguished Gold Medal: Emily Liu
Gold Medal: Colin McHugh, Anna Li, Angie Wang, Audrey Cui
Silver Medal: Adam Tsai, Connor Wang, Lucas Lee, Antoine Vigneron
Bronze Medal: Josie Hu, Vika Aleynikov, Alicia Feng, Arianne Zhang, Ekaterina Grebennikova, Rachel Wu
Honorable Mention: Maya Hussain, Ariana Murshed, Sungwoo Cho, Mugdha Singh, Antara Jagadish, Satatya Jain, Rhea Gupta, Vishwa Ravichandhiran, Madeline Knight, Evanessa Rotari, John Ngo
Single Works age 15 – 16 years
Distinguished Gold Medal: Eric Qian, Jeffrey Zhao
Gold Medal: Hongchen Duan, Gianna Chau, Alexander Toutanov, Phil Yao, Yohaan Ardeni, Scarlett Liu, Cooper Swart, Nathan Choy, Vivian Jiang
Silver Medal: Emma Zheng, Yumeng Liu, Ashley Zong, Keshav Mohan, Rishi Baradwaj, Lawrence Yeh, Frank Ouyang, Claire Xu, Elizabeth Cameron, Symphony Tafreshi
Bronze Medal: Jessica Chen, Zhengjia Sun, Abhinav Iyer, Shreya Sahoo, Tilman Seide
Honorable Mention: Emma Lu, Demian Orlov, Evelyn Hing
Single Works age 17 – 18 years
Distinguished Gold Medal: Noah Maeda
Gold Medal: Uina Yamaguchi, Paloma Oh, Yechong (Eric) Shan
Silver Medal: Kelvin Wang
Bronze Medal: Jonathan Li, Miles Chanbai
Honorable Mention: Elaina Mergler
Adult Single Works
Gold Medal: Yi Xiang
Silver Medal: Chun-Wei Chang
Bronze Medal: Godwin Hong
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Siney
Multiple Works age 8 and under
Gold Medal: Annabelle Wang, Hallie Lyu, Isabella Zhang, Lily Liu, Celine Cheng, Eric Liang, Daisy Wang, Elin Magnusson
Silver Medal: James Hu, Andrew Cen, Weibo Gao
Bronze Medal: Claire Kaiboriboon, Natalie Sun, Brandon Liu, Kinsley Cao
Honorable Mention: Sanjana Siddhartha, Ella Nikulin
Multiple Works age 9 – 10 years
Gold Medal: Anabelle Lo, Shanna Wu, James Song, Qian Shao
Silver Medal: Muhan Lou, Anna Li, Heidi Li, Leo Sun, May Xu
Bronze Medal: Mila Li, Eric Xia, Bryan Hao, Millie Chanbai
Multiple Works age 11 – 12 years
Distinguished Gold Medal: William Feng (first piece, second piece)
Gold Medal: Catherine Tang, Jane Kang, Emily Lu, Naomi Baumann
Silver Medal: Levin Zhang, Fiona Zhan, Shashwat Srinivasan, Samuel Kuropatkin
Bronze Medal: Kyrene Zhang, Anthony Kim, Mylee Yang, Kaylee Hu, Melissa Zberea, Kasen Eng, Nathaniel Lowe-Norris, Anmol Prashanth
Multiple Works age 13 – 14 years
Gold Medal: Anna Li
Bronze Medal: Sizhe Zheng
Honorable Mention: Alexis Liu, Kylie Zhang, Cornelia Busuioc, Enrique Alejandro Corona Suarex, Jayce Brown, Benson Liu
Multiple Works age 15 – 16 years
Distinguished Gold Medal: Jeffrey Zhao (first piece, second piece)
Gold Medal: Oliver Laksberg
Silver Medal: Janie Jang, Benicia Zhu
Bronze Medal: Andrew Lu