2024 Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winners
Congratulations to these outstanding students and their teachers!
The Winners Concert will be held at 4pm Saturday, April 20th in Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music, 501 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
For everyone’s safety, Thursday Musical strongly recommends all audience members to wear a non-cloth mask such as a N95, KN95, KF94, or surgical mask inside of the recital hall.
| Competition Category | Award | Student | Teacher |
| College Voice | 1st place | Yige Tang | Jane Giering-De Haan |
| 2nd place | Havyn Fish | Leanne Freeman Miller | |
| Honorable Mention | Leo Dworsky | John De Haan | |
| College Strings | 1st place | Jennifer Lee | Sally O'Reilly |
| 2nd place | Charlotte Lee | Sally O'Reilly | |
| Honorable Mention | Turner Sperry | Isidora Nojkovic | |
| College Piano | 1st place | Isaac Epley | Anthony Padilla |
| 2nd place | Jonathan Bass | Michael Mizrahi | |
| Honorable Mention | Benjamin Keating | Catherine Kautsky | |
| College Winds, Brass, & Percussion | 1st place | Maria Torres-Melgares | Kenneth Tse |
| 2nd place | Jessica Znaniecki | Immanuel Davis | |
| Honorable Mention | Angela Lara Cabrera | Fernando Meza | |
| High School Voice | 1st place | Meredith Heggen | Leanne Freeman-Miller |
| 2nd place | Alice Trachta | Alyssa Becker | |
| Honorable Mention | Jack Hanson | Melissa Holm-Johansen | |
| High School Musical Theater | 1st place | Henry Clark | Teresa Tierney |
| 2nd place | Alayna Williams | Alyssa Becker | |
| Honorable Mention | Olivia Ybarra | Amanda Weis | |
| High School Strings | 1st place | Vladimir Tsiper | Lucinda Marvin |
| 2nd place | Joshua Moon | Mara Stojkovic | |
| Honorable Mention | Sophia Alexander | Mina Fisher | |
| High School Piano | 1st place | Orion Kim | Claudia Chen |
| 2nd place | William Feng | Richard Tostenson | |
| Honorable Mention | Graham Hennig | Phillip Low | |
| High School Winds, Brass, & Percussion | 1st place | Christian Garner | Robert Dorer |
| 2nd place | Caleb Dusek | Joshua Becker | |
| Honorable Mention | Luke Kim | Amy Unseth | |
| Middle School Musical Theater | 1st place | Annie Birkholz | Amanda Weis |
| 2nd place | Lorilei Hartman | Melyssa Rice | |
| Honorable Mention | Hailey Grand | Tara Priolo | |
| Middle School Strings | 1st place | Henry Childs | Mina Fisher |
| 2nd place | Ariella Kim | Natsuki Kumagai | |
| Honorable Mention | Erik Brovold | Diane Loudon | |
| JUDGES | |
| Category | Judge |
| College & High School Voice | Monica Murray |
| College & High School Voice | Victoria Vargas |
| College Voice | Laura Nichols |
| High School Voice | Jonathon Struve |
| High School & Middle School Musical Theater | Julia Ennen |
| High School & Middle School Musical Theater | Rachel Inselman |
| High School Musical Theater | Anna Hashizume |
| Middle School Musical Theater | Kym Otto |
| College, High School, & Middle School Strings | Jim Bartsch |
| College, High School, & Middle School Strings | Kathryn Christie |
| College, High School, & Middle School Strings | Will Richardson |
| College Piano | Peter Arnstein |
| College Piano | Rie Tanaka |
| College Piano | Xiao Hu |
| High School Piano | Miryana Motova |
| High School Piano | Garret Ross |
| High School Piano | Hyein Choi |
| College &High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Karen Baumgartner |
| College & High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Angela Wyatt |
| College & High School Woodwinds/Brass/Percussion | Charles Wazanowski |
*Awards for 1st place, 2nd place and Honorable Mention in each category are at the judges’ discretion.
View the 2023 Winners here.