Category: <span>the winners</span>

Category: the winners

Junior Second Prize

     Ella Cho, age 14, began her piano studies at the age of 6 and is currently under the tutelage of Jenny Shin. For the past few years, Ella has had the privilege to take part in Regional, State, and International competitions. Most recently, she received First place at …

Amateur Division First Prize

     Taito Shimomura has studied piano with Kumiko Murase, Hiroko Fujii, Shoko Sugitani, Ryuichi Kusumoto, Hisayuki Ohara, and Rintaro Omi in Japan.  He has also studied with Marko Hilpo, Konstantin Bogino at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Master Course in Finland.     Dr. Shimomura has performed the Brahms piano …

Level B First Prize

     Rosabelle Shi, a 10 year old 4th grader from Illinois, has been taking piano lessons with Mrs. Brenda Huang since 4 and 1/2 years old and currently studying with Sylvia Wang.      A passionate and competitive performer, Rosabelle has earned recognition and awards nationally and internationally: a …

Level A First Prize

     Angela Guan Hsing Yue Jiang started playing the piano at the age of four, and currently studying with Bichuan Li in Honolulu, Hawaii.        As young as eight years of age, Angela has been a prizewinner of many national and international piano competitions: First Prize in 2021 …