2020 Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winners

Due to recent concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, our Thursday Musical Artist Series March 19th concert at MacPhail, new member auditions for Saturday, March 21st, and Winners' Concert for Thursday, March 26th will be cancelled.

Scholarship winners will receive their certificates and scholarship monies by mail.  We are following the lead of many local and national events in this move, as we feel it is in the best interest of our musicians, audience, and the general public to do our part to help mitigate the spread of the virus.

We will continue to monitor the news to determine how we will proceed with the remainder of our concert season.

Winners will be posted Monday, March 2, 2020. First place winners will be notified by phone. Critique sheets will be mailed to all contestants.

Awards for 1st, 2nd and honorable mention in each category are at the judges’ discretion. If a category does not have a contestant that averages a score with the appropriate minimum, it is possible that that category will not have a 1st place winner (or 2nd or Honorable Mention.)

Competition Category

Award

Student

Teacher

College Intermediate Voice

1st place tie

1st place tie

Elijah Hager

Cole McIlquham

Carol Eikum

Adriana Zabala

2nd place tie

2nd place tie

Abigail LaDuke

Mark Jesmer

Holly Janz

Tracey Engleman

Honorable Mention

Jacob Wilde

Dale Kruse

High School Voice

1st place

Paige Klemenhagen

Teresa Tierney

2nd place

Donovan Schumacher

Judy Bender

Honorable Mention

Laura Breyen

Colleen O’Shaughnessy Pollack

College Piano

1st place

Andrew Cannestra

Christopher Atzinger

2nd place

Hung Phi Nguyen

Catherine Kautsky

Honorable Mention

Darren Glewwe

April Kim

High School Piano

1st place

Margaret Wang

Alexander Braginsky

2nd place

Shuen Wu

Alexander Braginsky

Honorable Mention

Vinh Nguyen

Alexander Braginsky

Jr. High Piano

1st place

Orion Kim

Joe Zins

2nd place

Aurora Wang

Alexander Braginsky

Honorable Mention

Tasha Piyabongkarn

Megan Wallace

College Strings

2nd place

Inkyung Alison Oh

Sally O’Reilly

Honorable Mention

Yu-Chia Hsu

Sally O’Reilly

High School Strings

1st place

Dennis Eum

Mina Fisher

2nd place

James Thompson

Sally O’Reilly

Honorable Mention

Ingrid Tverberg

Tanya Remenikova

Jr. High Strings

1st place

Ruth Conry

Sally O’Reilly

2nd place

Vladimir Tsiper

Lucinda Marvin

Honorable Mention

Brooke Harms

Aaron Janse

College Winds, Brass & Perc.

1st place

Sheng Chen

Timothy Zavadil

2nd place tie

2nd place tie

Charlie Gannon

Russel Sweet

Preston Duncan

Preston Duncan

Honorable Mention

Micah Ray

Gene Koshinski

H.S. Winds, Brass & Perc.

1st place

Megan Schoenzeit

Julia Bogorad

2nd place

Johnny Yue

Ye Yu

Honorable Mention

Laurel Carter

Carol Gilkey

Jr. High Winds, Brass & Perc.

1st place

Jonas Carlson

Trudi Anderson

2nd place

Sophia Hannan

Mike Alexander

Honorable Mention

Berit Fitzsimonds

Carrie Vechionne

JUDGES

Categories:

College & High School Voice

Debra Gilroy

Aaron Humble

Harriet McCleary

College & Jr. High Piano

Herbert Johnson

Heather McLaughlin

Christopher Mechell

High School Piano

Julia Elkina-Ehrlich

Kevin Hobbs

Yumiko Oshima-Ryan

College, Jr & HS Strings

Holly Ager

Rolf Haas

Nickolai Kolarov

Winds, Brass & Percussion

Benjamin Cold

Terry Vermillion

Charles Wazanowski

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