2023 20th Century Music Competition Results
Congratulations to our winners!
We are very excited to announce that Top 3 Finalists in their age group and instrument category can now order a personalized 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Prize Trophy with their name corresponding to their prize here. Please note that at this time, we are only able to ship trophies to locations in the United States.
Ages 6 & under
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize |
|---|---|---|
| Piano | Gabriel Ronuel Acosta Ellie Lee Pan | Joey Liang /  Aashvi Srinivas Violet Chen |
| Violin | Juliette Leong | |
| Duet | Rowan and Florence Lam / |
Age 7
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Olivia Minji Yang Rebecca Li Arthur John Gavin Scott Leah Sung | Ethan Joon Byeon Ishanvi Srinivas Thasia Aguilar | Maritza Ysabela Goldin | Drukmo Dorotsang |
| Violin | Caroline Kim |
Age 8
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Dennis Gabriel Wu | Ryan Chen | Vihaan Mahisekar | Abigail Chen |
| Violin | Daria Panfilova / | Chloe Hengyu Wang Ian Chen |
Ages 9 – 10
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Stephen Sirui Chen | Yihan Yang Leonard Xu Henry Sun | Joaquin Francisco Wong Choice Bujing Zhao Mary Katherine Hamons | Alex Yu Sai Nayan Vodnala Yutso Dorotsang |
| Violin | Herman Petrenko | |||
| Duet | Angela Shao and Johan Peña / |
Ages 11 – 12
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Adele Emmanuela Liakhovetski Alice Luo | Jude Anderson Battles Eli Jake Rudikoff | Kayde Lareau | Julien Hsiung |
| Violin | Sofiia Serdiuk | |||
| Cello | Ayman Bourar / | |||
| Trumpet | Leo Chen | |||
| Duet | Maxim Yanovitsky and Maxim Krueger Ethan Chen and Eileen Zou |
Ages 13 – 14
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Alexander Vollmer Meddy Quan Jody Chen | Yixuan Xu / Darin Nguyen Taiga Sasaki  / | Tiffany Hsu | George Jiovanni Yawakim /  /  / |
| Violin | Kate Vo | Yerang Kim / | Lucas Chu | |
| Duet | Penelope and Sawyer Chung |
Age 15
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Ray Takagi / Oliver Chen  / Joseph Huang Zhou | Xiaoyue Lai / Dylan Danis Schenker | Abigail Leah Leychkis Arsh Jha | Gavin Chi |
| Oboe | Kristen Chun Madison Testa | |||
| Voice | Marissa Emmie Torii Williams | Abigail Ziqiang Rong | ||
| Violin | Alexey Koksharov | |||
| Saxophone | Dylan Hardy | |||
| Sitar | Kaira Soin | |||
| Flute | Daphne Chao / | |||
| Marimba | Aryan Rajpal | |||
| Duet | Dayton Nguyen and Rohan Ramkumar | Guha Ekambaram and Vishnu Muthuraman |
Age 16
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Ethan Reinart Lee Yohana Jie Kim Megan YiAn Sun Ryan Seunghyun Chung Thomas Brian Evans | Ulyana Koshechkina / Asa Rachman Miller | Claire Guo | |
| Cello | Arianne Kim | Vince Chan | Zachary Geller | |
| Violin | Benedetta Clara Gauthier-Mamaril | Rachel Tran | ||
| Voice | Ella Wang Yinuo Wang | |||
| Viola | William Xie |
Age 17
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Taylor Christene Trimble Alessandra Cate Barefoot | Zhiyu Ge Haejoo Chang / | Shen Shin Zhang / |
| Cello | Antonio David McDonald / Randy Huang / | Jason Joonsuh Lee | |
| Flute | Alexander Romero | ||
| Viola | Michael Wang | ||
| Duet | Minjae and Hyunjae Kim / |
Ages 18 – 20
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize | Fourth Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Siddharth Easwaran | Bell Chen | Joshua David Miller | |
| Voice | Emma Maria Puscalau / / | Kalya Saira Hajari | ||
| Saxophone | Khristian Smith | |||
| Trombone | Grace Ng / |
Ages 21 – 24
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Nadine Satamian / Pedro César Silva  | Mone Sugihara /  | |
| Flute | Gillian Alyssa Derer | Arianna Allyson Durkin | |
| Voice | Sandra Keerthi / | ||
| Violin | Yunxi Peng / | ||
| Organ | Makena James | ||
| Saxophone | Yifan Wang | ||
| Horn | Joshua Prestenberg | ||
| Viola | Haixiang Ge / |
Ages 25 – 29
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saxophone | José Ramón Villanueva GarcÃa | Jared Nathaniel Cummings | |
| Violin | Mia Wang | ||
| Viola | Nicky Moore | ||
| Voice | Leslie Anne Llado | ||
| Piano | Angela Lin | ||
| Clarinet | Emily Jean Rose | ||
| Duet | Shana Stone and Sonny Yoo / | ||
| Trio | Emily Rose, Rachel Sweeney, and Savannah Royston | ||
| Sextet | Penner, Cole, Seaman, Liu, Dantoni / |
Ages 30+
| Instrument | First Prize | Second Prize | Third Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piano | Warlem MarÃlio Fernandes dos Santos Madalina Danila / Sanghie Lee / | Mary-Victoria Voutsas Susan Dantoni | Johanna Lyn Bopp |
| Flute | Tian Tian | Katie Mess | |
| Clarinet | Season Cowley | ||
| Voice | Qi Liang | Mele Santos | |
| Duet | Madalina Danila and Hugh Sung / / Madalina Danila and Xuan Yao / / Nathaniel De La Cruz and Rosa LoGiudice Andreia Lucaciu and Madalina Danila |