Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 2025 US New Star International Piano Competition:
Evelyn Hua, 3rd Prize (Group I)
Isabella Yuan, 3rd Prize (Group II)
Evelyn Hua, 7, was awarded First Prize at the Arizona Music Competition and the Opus Music Competition. She was also named the Third Prize winner at the 2025 Bellagrande International Music Competition.
Chi Anne Chen, 13, was selected and played in the masterclass led by Mr. Victor Rosenbaum at SFCM.
Evelyn Hua performed in the Gala Concert of the WPTA Italy International Piano Competition 2025. The concert took place in Piacenza, Italy, at the Auditorium of the Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano.
Congratulations to Elite International Music Competition winners who will perform in winner’s recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2026:
Ella Luo
Claire Shih
Chi-Anne Chen
Vivian Chen
Chloe So
Lucas Gao
Alexa Feng
Congratulations to winners at the 2025 Bach Festival International hosted by Seattle International Music Festival:
Evelyn Hua, Gold Medal
Emalia Kim, Bronze Medal
Congratulations to award winners at the 2025 US New Star International Etude Piano Competition:
Ellie Xuan: 1st Prize (III) and Top Performer 2nd Runner-up
Amalia Zhang: 1st Prize (I)
Lyra Song: 2nd Prize (III)
Shua Cheon: 2nd Prize (III)
Joshua Tittiranonda: 2nd Prize (V)
Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 32nd United States International Music Competitions:
Ellie Xuan: 3rd Prize (Young Artists C)
Shua Cheon: Honorable Mention (Young Artists C)
Evelyn Hua: 3rd Prize (Bach Special Theme A)
Evelyn Hua won Silver Award at the 2025 San Francisco International Piano Competition Finals.
Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 12th ENKOR International Music Competition:
Shua Cheon, Second Prize
Evelyn Hua, Third Prize
Lyra Song, Third Prize
Joshua Tittiranonda. Third Prize
Ella Luo, Honorable Mention
Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 7th WPTA Finland International Piano Competition:
Evelyn Hua, Gold Award, scholarships, invitation to perform in the Gala Concert 2025 in Uusi Paviljonki Concert Hall in Helsinki on August 21st, 2025
Lyra Song, Silver Award and scholarships
Chi-Anne Chen, Silver Award and scholarships
Howard Liu, Silver Award and scholarships
Ariel Chang, Bronze Award
Chloe So, Bronze Award
Ella Luo, Bronze Award
Congratulations to awardees at the 2025 Pacific International Piano Competition:
Chi-Anne Chen, Bronze
Ariel Chang, Bronze
Chloe So, Bronze
Congratulations to Evelyn Hua for winning the First Prize at the San Francisco International Piano Competition and the 2025 Charleston Virtuoso Music Competition, Gold award at the IPPA Conero Competition, Grand Champion at the US Young Pianists Competition, as well as the Second Prize at the Global Philharmonic Music Competition and will perform in Disney Hall in August 2025.
Ellie Xuan was awarded Third Prize, Scholarships at the Silicon Valley Open Doors International Piano Competition. Other finalists included Amelia Zhang and Shua Cheon.
Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 2025 WPTA-Italy Piano Competition:
Evelyn Hua: First prize, scholarships and performance in Italy (Junior A)
Asher Khoo, Second prize and scholarships (Junior B)
Isabella Yuan: Fifth prize (Junior B)
Chi Anne Chen: Third prize and scholarships (Junior C)
Matthew Mather: Fifth prize (Junior D)
Ethan Yan: Honorable mention (Junior D)
Dayton Nguyen played his Senior Recital at SFCM on May 18th, 2025.
Dayton Nguyen has been selected as the sole recipient of the Excelling in the Arts Scholarship from EDCC.
Congratulations to pianists awarded at the 2025 International Grande Music Competition:
Asher Khoo, First Prize (ages 7-9)
Avery Armstrong, Second Prize (ages 10-12)
Howard Liu, Lucas Gao, and Vivian Chen were selected into the Oclef Contemporary Festival and will be performing with the Oclef Orchestra on April 27th, 2025 at the 8va Hall.
Nathan Harah will be returning to the Interlochen Center for the Arts Piano Summer Program.
Lyra Song, Chi-Anne Chen, and Ariel Chang (returning) will be joining the Jacobs School of Music Summer Piano Academy at Indiana University.
Congratulations to Dayton Nguyen for being a 2025 Special Awardee in Original Music at the Creative Youth Awards for the third year.
Matthew Mather received Barbara Call Memorial Award, the top prize at the SCCMTAC Talent Bank Awards Festival in Santa Cruz.
Nathan Harah was awarded Honorable Mention at the 2025 MTAC Piano Concerto Competition.
Emalia Kim was accepted into the Rushmore Music Festival Young Artist Fellowship Program and was awarded a full-tuition scholarship in Summer 2025.
Joshua Tittiranonda was selected to join BU Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Piano Program in Summer 2025.
Congratulations to Ellie Xuan for winning First Prize at the 2025 KAMSA Music Competition.
Congratulations to Avery Armstrong for winning the Marilyn Mindell Piano Competition Junior Division.
Congratulations to pianists selected into the 2025 Junior Bach Festival:
Isabella Yuan
Nathan Harah
Amelia Zhang
Claire Shih
Joshua Tittiranonda
Isaac Choi (organ)