2023 World 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	Third Prize
Piano	Chelsea Chen	Athena Huang	Julie Jia Alice Guan

Age 7

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Caden Chan Camille Li	Austin Lin Bryant Lin	Bryce Chen Ethan Joon Byeon		Nina Jean Watters
Violin	River Ashley Brown

Age 8

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Esme Soae Tran John Wang Fang Yu Isabella Li	Evan Wu Samuil McArthur	Carnegie Vu Park / / Eldrian Ling		Theodore Hoang Nguyen
Violin	Kristiāns Isakovs	Daniel Liu
Voice	Ivy Deng		Jeffrey Qu
Duet			Kyle and Nina Watters

Age 9

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Caroline Li		Pharkorn Phophong		Kyle Allan Watters
Violin	Timur Yusupov			Owen Jianwei Lei / Lisa Oki
Guitar		Artur Leshchuk / Soumar Torfeh / /
Cello			Emily Niu
Voice			Sathie Dilru Bodhya Jinadasa

Age 10

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Duryea Parrelly	Joaquin Francisco Wong Pharphum Phophong Elena Ling	Suri Ye Julien Torfeh  /  /  Sarvesh Sriram /	Sophia Chang	Aditya Motivala
Violin	Yuming Wang Christopher Huang	Jacqueline Yun Cao	Sarah Chang		Sherjahon Jalilov /
Harp	Kaitlin Janelle Hui
Voice			Sarah Chang Ashley Yunseo Oh

Age 11

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Minjae Jeon / Alexis Anastasia Dyche	Aithan Liu Neel Ali Perdue Lena Park	Wenruixi Zhang / Alessandro Basile	Shohjahon Jalilov / Ailin Cao
Violin	Maya Camille Brisard /		Erin Chung /	Pranav Jaishankar
Voice	Angelina Tong	Annie Ye
Guitar	Ethan Kim
Dombra		Dana Mukhamedalieva /
Trio		Deng, Mercado, Subhawong
Quintet		Boychenko, Ding, Chen, Ye, Tan

Age 12

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Daniel Chung Anna Wu Dylan Bomin Kim	Jamie Yao Yuze Lee	Kayla Isabel Ostrow Giselle Dina Goldenberg	Saanvi Kaza Charis Wong Lukas Alfredo Cordoba
Violin	Maxwell Brown Ksenia Bagautdinova / Adriana Ossi		Hinata Ohno / Thomas Anthony Bailey
Cello	Adam Kim
Voice	Akzhibek Askarkyzy Mustafina / Nisha Udomaksorn

Age 13

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Everett Leigh	Maia Pham		Benjamin Gao
Violin	Artem Varsanofiev / Elliot Gulacsi Anderson /		Deborah Zhu	Jason Ng
Guzheng	Sophia Jiang
Trumpet		Leo Chen
Voice			Kyung Min Nam Angel Geng /
Quartet			Chen, Lu, Fong, Phung /

Age 14

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Sophia Lin Eric Lin / Ethan Primeldi	Joel Walter Rice Yerang Kim / Vivienne Sirui Chen Nathan Jeffrey Furman	Clemence Wong		Han Wei Zhang
Violin	Zedric Wong		Jaynie Lee /	Nicole Lin
Viola	Jayden Kim		Ahmet Cemal Taş
Cello	Seunghun Shin
Flute	Ellie Yewon Ahn
Sitar		Maya Reddy
Voice			Hannah Chang
Duet			Annie Lam and Jackie Zhao

Age 15

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize	Fifth Prize
Piano	Maria-Louisa van Staden Olivia Li Hayden Park	Bella Dang	Eunoo Cho	Eeshan Ajmera / Emily Ngoc Nhi Nguyen / Rishi Chowdhury	Julia Nhi Vo /
Cello	Andrew Sun Sofia Burbano Ryan Chan Chong /		Yeji Joanna Yoon /
Guzheng	Claire Shen Jingyi Ling / Elena Zhu
Flute	Allison Xiaodi Cohn	Lydia Eunji Hong
Violin	Yena Oh		Elodie Sooah Breig /
Voice		Yejoo Isabel Byun Isaac Chang	Shrujana Karthick Iyer
Viola	Joshua Chae
Saxophone	Dylan Hardy
Clarinet	Gahyeon Yoon
Duet	Eric and Katie Shih Koh

Age 16

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Yuma Saito Kano Ryan Modafe	Roslyn Lee / Vignesh Somasekar Varun Rodrigues Emily Wu	Charles ChenYu Zhu Andrea Li	Amelia Claire Burba
Violin	Julia Yi	Ashton Insol Baek Na-Yeon Emily Song / Dongwoo Kang /	Sophia Yermolov /
Flute	Lyria Zhu Sena Kim
Cello	Blake Inha Baek	Jacob (JunKyoung) Park /
Viola	Ashley Yesle Gil	Allison Kim
Hammered Dulcimer		Grace Kelsangmetog Cai
Recorder		Tegan Costello
Guitar			Rithvik Jandhyala
Mridangam				Khedaar Kashyap
Duet		Samuel Lee and Joshua Padilla

Age 17

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Lapon Uavechanichkul	Hannah Lui An Chen Jiayi Shi Marvin Zhang Kaisa Jill Woodruff Taiga Nishida /	ShengJui Du / Christopher Pishvaian	Dian Chen / Ali Soner Cicek
Voice	Juliet Caffrey-Cama Avay Swaminathan Carl Egert		Maggie Jiarui Peng
Violin	Yitong Sun Miriam Zhu	Anja Miljenović		Sophia Shi
Clarinet	Jessica Jungmin An Narin Kim	Claire Faith Yum /
Cello	Liam Sullivan Harrison Sungmin Park
Oboe	Anna Elizabeth Edgcomb
Flute		Catherine Nan Joanne Jane Fan

Ages 18 – 19

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Violin	Lana Crosson
Piano		Luke Walter Magee
Flute			Seojin Kwon Seoyoung Kwon
Cello			Daniel Kim
Voice			Justin Riley Pokrant
Oboe				Elijah Smith

Ages 20 – 21

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize
Voice	Caitlin Towell Kevon Kenneth Thompson
Viola	Nicolette Marie Sullivan-Cozza
Flute	Fu Yiru
Piano		David Jose Berrocal-Barrios /
Violin		Anika Xiao Fu Meisel

Ages 22 – 29

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Huijae Lee / Zhengyu Xu Steven Daniel Viola / Yingfei Li			Minsol (Sola) Kim /
Violin	Jaehee Jeoung /
Harp	Zibin Zhou /
Flute		Brenna Sherman Man Hin Gwen Wen /
Voice		Natalya Kushlanthi Dissanayake
Viola			Yi Jiafeng
Duet		Zheng Xie and Mengqi Xu

Ages 30+

Instrument	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize	Fourth Prize
Piano	Esfir Ross Mary-Victoria Voutsas /	John Carpenter Esteban Alvarez /	Young Eun Jeong / Orlando Green	Luisa Kay Reyes Adelia Davletova Nazareth /
Voice	Ciyuan Zhu		Luisa Kay Reyes
Viola	Bo Kyoung Park /
Cello			Dominic Martinez
Trio	Mileva Krivokapić, Milica Lalošević, and Tamara Jovićević