Winners of the 2023 Aloha International Piano Competition
LIVE CATEGORY
Junior (Ages 12 – 14)
- First Prize: Helena Kim, age 14, Wayne, NJ (student of David Epstein)
- Second Prize: Miyu Akino, age 12, Honolulu, HI (student of Joanna Fan)
- Third Prize: Crystal Ferreira, age 13, Honolulu, HI (student of Thomas Yee)
- Honorable Mention: Ivy Wang, age 11, San Jose, CA (student of Hans Boepple)
- Honorable Mention: Ben Liu, age 13, Honolulu, HI (student of Bichuan Li)
VIRTUAL CATEGORY
Level A (up to age 8)
- 1st Place: Chloe K. Wang, age 8, Chula Vista, CA (student of Maria Crystalia)
- 2nd Place: Not awarded
- 3rd Place: David Hayes, age 7, Honolulu, HI (student of Joanna Fan)
- Honorable Mention: Robyn Mui, age 6, Honolulu,HI (student of Joanna Fan)
Level B (ages 9 – 11)
- 1st Prize: Jeremy Liu, age 11, Naperville, IL (student of Sueanne Metz)
2nd Place: Chanya Bayla Somboonvechakarn, age 10, Bangkok, Thailand (student of Irina Novikova)
3rd Place (tie):: Chihiro Miyawaki, age 11, Ibaraki, Japan (student of Noriko Uenaka)
- 3rd Place (tie): Dylan Zhang, age 9, River Forest, IL (student of Sueanne Metz)
- Honorable Mention: Keeley Fan, age 10, Honolulu, HI (student of Joanna Fan)
Junior (ages 12 – 14)
- 1st Prize: Meining Wu, age 14, San Jose, CA (student of Hans Boepple)
- 2nd Prize: Aya Okimoto, age 14, Honolulu, HI (student of Steven Casano)
- 3rd Prize: Peter Parra, age 12, Mountain View, CA (student of Erna Gulabyan)
- Honorable Mention: Claire Rong, age 14, Vernon Hills, IL (student of Sueanne Metz)
- Honorable Mention: Edie Park, age 13, Chicago IL (student of Christina Tio)
High School (ages 15 – 18)
- 1st Prize: Katherine Liu, age 18, Wellesley, MA (student of Haesun Paik)
- 2nd Prize: Michelle Cao, age 15, Belleview, WA (student of Sasha Starcevich)
- 3rd Prize: Riko Kimura, age 15, Ibaraki, Japan (student of Noriko Uenaka)
Young Artist (ages 19 – 25)
- 1st Prize: Momoko Kimura, age 24, Japan (Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany – student of Henri Sigfridsson)
- 2nd Prize (tie): Mia Pecnik, age 22, Croatia (Hochshule fur Musik und Tanz, Koeln, Germany – student of Andreas Frolich)
- 2nd Prize (tie): Siyuan Zhang, age 24, China (University of Arizona – student of John Milbauer)
- 3rd Prize: Not awarded
Amateur (non-professional pianist age 30+)
- 1st Place: Waka Miura, Ibaraki, Japan (student of Noriko Uenaka)
- 2nd Place: Chihiro Sato, Tokyo, Japan (student of Ronn Yedidia)
- Honorable Mention: Elsa Lee, Honolulu, HI