American Protégé

International Piano and Strings Competition 2009

First Prize Winners:

Age Group 5 to 10:

Derek Wang, piano

10

Massachusetts

Student of Dorothy Shi

 

 

Nicholas Allgeier, piano

10

North Carolina

Student of John Ruggero

 

 

Anna Han, violin

10

New Jersey

Student of Elizabeth Faidley

 

 

Age Group 11 to 14:

Jake Taylor, cello

11

New York

Student of Vladimir Panteleyev

 

 

Yaegy Park, violin

11

Texas

Student of Kyung Sun Lee

 

 

Yuka Kubota, violin

11

Maryland

Student of Klara  Berkovich

 

 

Chaeyoung Park, piano

11

Kansas

Student of Jack Winerock and Whain Lee

 

 

Steve Hsu, piano

12

New Jersey

Student of Veda Zuponcic

 

 

Miranda Liu, violin

12

Austria

Student of Paul Roczek

 

 

Auburn Lee, piano

13

Texas

Student of John Weems

 

 

Wendy Hou, piano

14

Connecticut

Student of Svitlana Fiorito

 

 

Age Group 15 to 18:

Aaron Huang, piano

15

New York

Student of Dr. Ronn Yedidia

 

 

Jim Isaac Chua, piano

15

Washington

Student of Hania Dec

 

 

Kevin Kuh, violin

16

New Jersey

Student of Tali Kravitz

 

 

Katherine Sebring, piano

17

Netherland

Student of Marietta Petkova

 

 

Yang Song, piano

17

China
Student of Phillip Kawin    

Aileen LI, piano

17

New York

Student of Sheryl Canellakis

 

 

Reed Tetzloff, piano

17

Minnesota

Student of Dr. Paul Wirth

 

 

Beatrice Söderberg, piano

18

New York

Student of Ubaldo Diaz-Acosta

 

 

Rachel Chung, piano

18

Massachusetts

Student of Gregg Pauley and Katherine Chi

 

 

College Students and Professionals:

Patrick Kreeger, piano

19

Pennsylvania

Student of Susan Starr

 

 

SooJin Ahn, piano

20

New York

Student of James Tocco

 

 

Ashlee Young, piano

21

Montana

Student of Dorothea Cromley

 

 

Myung-Ji Lee, piano

23

Pennsylvania

Student of Sergey Schepkin

 

 

John Irrera, violin

23

New York

Student of Zvi Zeitlin

 

 

Emiko Miura, piano

24

United Kingdom

Student of Kathryn Stott

 

 

Kristie Janczyk, piano

25

Texas

Student of Alfred Mouledous

 

 

Jacob Ertl, piano

25

New York

Student of Belita True

 

 

Hye-Won Jo, piano

26

Illinois

Student of Timothy Ehlen

 

 

Joseph Irrera, piano

26

New York

Jan Bartos, piano

27

New York

Student of Zenon Fishbein

 

 

Hayarpi Grigoryan, piano

27

Armenia

Marina Vardanyan, piano

29

Armenia

Seungmi Jung, piano

27

New Jersey

Student of Dr. Min Kwon

 

 

Wei-Ya Lai, piano

28

Ohio

Student of James Tocco

 

 

Young Park, piano

28

New York

Student of Dr. Min Kwon

 

 

Chiacheng Naomi Sen, piano

29

California

Student of Paul Berkowitiz

 

 

Krystian Tkaczewski, piano

29

Connecticut

Student of Oxana Yablonskaya

 

 

Sunjin Kim, violin

30

Illinois

Student of Simin Ganatra

 

 

Jung Eun Lee, piano

30

Illinois

Student of Dr. William Heiles

 

 

Nicolas Horvath, piano

31

France

Student of Patrick Zygmanowski

 

 

Ji Young Lee, piano

31

Ohio

Student of Eugene Pridonoff

 

 

Myung-Jin Paik, piano

32

South Korea

Student of Gilbert Kalish

 

 

Soyoon Yim, piano

34

Ohio

Student of Eugene Pridonoff

 

 

Junko Nagaya, piano

34

Japan

Soohyun Yun, piano

36

Illinois

Student of Ian Hobson

 

 

Jayoung Hong, piano

36

Kansas

Student of Dr. Jack Winerock

 

 

Sem Cerritelli, piano

 

Italy

Jung Sook Choi, mezzo soprano

 

South Korea

 

 

 

American Protégé

International Piano and Strings Competition 2009

Second Prize Winners:

 

Age

Country/State

Age Group 5 to 10:

Tiffany Koo, piano

6

California

Student of Mikhail Korzhev

 

 

Victoria Krylova, piano

7

New York

Student of Marina Rogozhina

 

 

Kenneth Rye Naito, violin

8

Maryland

Student of Elizabeth Faidley

 

 

DeeAnn Guo, piano

9

New York

Student of Shenghni Wu Chen

 

 

Maya Richter Fortune, violin

9

Maryland

Student of Elizabeth Faidley

 

 

Nathan Grabow, piano

10

Pennsylvania

Student of Roger Hayden

 

 

Age Group 11 to 14:

Dimitri Malignan, piano

11

France

Student of Nicolas Horvath

 

 

Hannah Hernandez, violin

11

New Jersey

Student of Elizabeth Faidley

 

 

Felix Jarrar, piano

13

Connecticut

Student of Vurton Hatheway

 

 

Carson Malen, piano

13

Utah

Student of Susan Duehlmeier

 

 

Kalen J. Winfrey, piano

14

New York

Student of Joseph Iberra

 

 

Age Group 15 to 18:

Jonathan Duarte, piano

15

Costa Rica

Student of Dr. Alexandr Sklioutovski

 

 

Heather Elizabeth Zhang, piano

15

New York

Student of Ronn Yedidia

 

 

Jennifer Yoon, Piano

16

New Jersey
Student of Donald Dolan    

MinAh Kim, Piano

17

New Jersey

Student of Jim-Kyung Park

 

 

Joyce Kuo, piano

17

New Jersey

Student of Ronn Yedidia

 

 

Bruno Ferrari, piano

18

California

Student of Val Underwood

 

 

College Students and Professionals:

Solomon Eichner, piano

20

New York

Student of Arkady Aronov

 

 

Kaifan Wang, piano

21

China

Student of Ken Wilson

 

 

Miroslava Mintcheva, Piano

33

Colorado

Student of Doris Pridonoff Lehnert

 

 

Amateur:

Kingsley A. Matthew, piano

38

New York

Student of Dr. Emily White

 

 

 

American Protégé

International Piano and Strings Competition 2009

Honorable Mention Winners:

 

 

 

College Students and Professionals:

John Provine, piano

25

California

Student of Yoshikazu Nagai

 

 

Mei-En Chou, piano

27

Louisiana

Sunyoung Ju, piano

30

Kansas

Student of Jack Winerock

 

 

Rebeca Boyd, violin

33

New York

Student of Zvi Zeitlin

 

 

Kathy L. Ito, piano

53

California