2022 Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winners
Congratulations to these outstanding students and their teachers!*
The Winners Concert at Concordia University will be held at 4pm Saturday, April 9th in Buetow Music Center Auditorium, 300 Hamline Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104.
For everyone’s safety, Thursday Musical requires all audience members to wear a non-cloth mask such as a N95, KN95, KF94, or surgical mask. If needed, surgical-type masks will be available. All audience members will also need to show proof of full COVID-19 vaccination, or proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance.
| Competition Category | Award | Student | Teacher |
| College Intermediate Voice | 1st place tie | Jordan McCready | Leanne Freeman-Miller |
| 1st place tie | Svea Hagen | Anne Jennifer Nash | |
| 2nd place | Leo Dworsky | John De Haan | |
| Honorable Mention | Rachel Dumont | Tracey Engleman | |
| College Advanced Voice | 1st place | Emma Davis | Carol Eikum |
| 2nd place | Gabriel Toso | Peter Halverson | |
| Honorable Mention | Abigail LaDuke | Holly Janz | |
| College Strings | 1st place | Ingrid Tverberg | Benjamin Osterhouse |
| Honorable Mention | Rachel Gee | Sally O' Reilly | |
| College Piano | 1st place | Ami Hatori | Catherine Kautsky |
| 2nd place | Paul Casiano | Ksenia Nosikova | |
| Honorable Mention | Jonathan Bass | Michael Mizrahi | |
| College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | 1st place | Claire Zwiefelhofer | Sangyoon Kim |
| 2nd place | Lingxiao Li | Kenneth Tse | |
| Honorable Mention | Zijian Zhang | Preston Duncan | |
| High School Voice | 1st place | Ava Bartel | Teresa Tierney |
| 2nd place | Emma Higgins | Melissa Holm-Johansen | |
| Honorable Mention | Kevin Kereakos-Fairbanks | Janna Kysilko | |
| High School Strings | 1st place | Grace Weitzel | Aaron Janse |
| 2nd place | Vladimir Tsiper | Lucinda Marvin | |
| Honorable Mention | Ruth Conry | Sally O' Reilly | |
| High School Piano | 1st place | Edward Ojard | Nicholas Susi |
| 2nd place | Jacob Taggart | Paul Wirth | |
| Honorable Mention | Aurora Wang | Alexander Braginsky | |
| High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | 1st place | Kalina Lee | John Snow |
| 2nd place | Andrei Bancos | Scott Anderson | |
| Honorable Mention | Daniel Ewing | Laura Grondahl | |
| Middle School Piano | 1st place | Alex Rodriguez | Paul Wirth |
| 2nd place | Graham Hennig | Phillip Low | |
| Honorable Mention | Owen Artiles | Catherine Kautsky | |
| JUDGES | |
| Category | Judge |
| College Intermediate, College Advanced & High School Voice | Victoria Vargas |
| College Intermediate & College Advanced Voice | Monica Murray |
| College Intermediate & College Advanced Voice | Laura Nichols |
| High School Voice | Shari Speer |
| High School Voice | Deborah Carbaugh |
| College & High School Strings | Mina Fisher |
| College & High School Strings | James Bartsch |
| College & High School Strings | Rolf Haas |
| College & Middle School Piano | Asami Hagiwara |
| College Piano | Xiao Hu |
| College Piano | David Viscoli |
| High School Piano | Sara Langmead |
| High School Piano | Garret Ross |
| High School Piano | Richard Lange |
| Middle School Piano | Rebecca Shockley |
| Middle School Piano | Irina Elkina |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Charles Wazanowski |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Karen Baumgartner |
| High School and College Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Eri Isomura |
*Awards for 1st place, 2nd place 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 place or Honorable Mention).
View the 2021 Winners here.