MUSIC INTERNATIONAL GRAND PRIX

2024 Grand Prix Winner:


Sacha Jorba-Wu (Youth Strings)


Audience Favorite:  sacha jorba-wu (Youth strings)

All 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in the Youth and Teen Categories have been awarded scholarships to the Interlochen Summer Program 2025.
 
AIMS in Graz Scholarship:  John Kun Park
 
Berlin Opera Academy Scholarship: HyunWoo Song
 
Performance with Orchestra in Ecuador with Manuel Campos, Conductor: Chanhee Jin, Teen Strings

2024 winners

Youth Popular Voice: 
1st Place:  Evolette Alexander Quineldy
2nd place:  Cleo Saliers
3rd Place:  Beau Durkin


Teen Popular Voice: 
1st Place:  Diya Koul
2nd Place:  Srushti Gubbi
3rd Place: Sara Deo


Adult Popular Voice: 
1st Place Carlos Perez
2nd Place:  Abigail Storm
3rd Place:  Roni Ellison


Youth Classical Voice: 
1st Place:  Katherine Backues
2nd Place:  Manami Baba
3rd Place:  Adelina Michel


Teen Classical Voice: 
1st Place:  Penelope (Poppy) Teague
2nd Place:  Diya Koul
3rd Place:  Mariela Palencia


Adult Classical Voice: 
1st Place:  Sarah Benzinger
2nd Place:  Alannah Garnier
3rd Place:  Hyeseong Kim


Youth Piano: 
1st Place:  Alexander Zhou
2nd Place:  Matthew Gu
3rd Place:  Belinda Zhu


Teen Piano: 
1st Place:  Caleb Sharkey
2nd Place:  Victoria Zeng
3rd Place:  Erik Jacoby


Adult Piano: 
1st Place:  Siwon Kim
2nd Place:  Junwen Liang
3rd Place:  Bowen Liu


Youth Strings: 
1st Place:  Sacha Jorba-Wu
2nd Place:  Deann Huang
3rd Place:  Mia Jung-Pitkin


Teen Strings: 
1st Place:  Chanhee Jin
2nd Place: Joshua Ho
3rd Place:  Emily Shi


Adult Strings: 
1st Place:  Qingzhuo Li
2nd Place:  Yuwa Roten
3rd Place:  Moacyr Teixeira Neto


Youth Winds & Brass: 
1st Place:  Naryn Kim
2nd Place:  Arya Koul
3rd Place:  Not awarded


Teen Winds & Brass: 
1st Place:  Brianna Tang
2nd and 3rd place not awarded

Adult Winds & Brass: 
1st Place:  Zitian Wang
2nd Place:  Leesak Ko
3rd Place:  Ionas Mercadal


Youth Composition: 
1st Place:  Kai Lin
2nd and 3rd place not awarded

Teen Composition: 
1st Place:  Tara Lynam
2nd Place not awarded
3rd Place:  Sitori Byers

  
Adult Composition: 
1st Place:  Olga Amelkina-Vera
2nd Place:  Dinah Bianchi
3rd Place:  Miles Swaminathan


Ensemble: 
1st Place:  Erik and Katia Duet
2nd Place:  Trio Somni
3rd Place:  Schmidt Trio








2024 finalists

Youth Piano
Luise Bold
Chloe Nari Wang
Alexander Zhou
Belinda Zhu
Matthew Gu

Teen Piano
Erik Jacoby
Levi Li
Caleb Sharkey
Victoria Zeng
Kaiyue Ethan Guan

Adult Piano
Minyoung Rho
Junwen Liang
Bowen Liu
Siwon Kim
Mary-Victoria Voutsas
Youth Winds & Brass
Naryn Kim
Arya Koul

Teen Winds & Brass
Jaturaporn Sinsitthiprasert
Ellinor Bengtson
Rundong Liu
Brianna Tang

Adult Winds & Brass
Ionas Mercadal
Leesak Ko
Zitian Wang
Ana Diaz Asencio
Youth Strings
Sacha Jorba-Wu
Rubi Yujin Kang
Mia Jung-Pitkin
Deann Huang

Teen Strings
Chanhee Jin
Emily Shi
Joshua Ho
Orion McKenzie

Adult Strings
Qingzhuo Li
John Fawcett
Moacyr Teixeira Neto
Yuwa Roten
Youth Original Composition
Kai Lin

Teen Original Composition
Tara Lynam
William Feng
Sitori Byers
Anvay Mathur

Adult Original Composition
Olga Amelkina-Vera
Miles Swaminathan
Dinah Bianchi
Ruichao Wu

Ensembles
Trio Somni
Schmidt Trio
Erik and Katia duet
Flying Strings Chinese Ensemble
Youth Popular Voice
Evolette Alexander Quineldy
Beau Durkin
Alexander Slavin
Cleo Saliers

Youth Classical Voice
Manami Baba
James Yeh
Adelina Michel
​Katherine Backues
Liam Wang
Sarah Lee
Lily Bell Morgan

Teen Popular Voice
Srushti Gubbi
Nisha Udomaksorn
Diya Koul
Lilianna Rindal
Sara Deo

Teen Classical Voice
Penelope (Poppy) Teague
​Rebecca Marchan
Mariela Palencia
Diya Koul
Avantika Swaminathan

Adult Popular Voice
Carlos Perez
Sandra Fernandes
Abigail Storm
Roni Ellison


Adult Classical Voice
Zhiyu  Cheng
David Rivera Bozon
Hyein Hong
HyunWoo Song
Sitong Liu
Chen Yanxi
Sarah Benzinger
Sooyeon Kim
Hyeseong Kim
Mandy Brown
Amanda Staub
Alannah Garnier
John Kun Park
Congcong Wang
Yu Pan









​High scoring Semifinalists:

PIANO ONLINE
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Youth Piano
Belinda Zhu
Chloe Nari Wang
Yuzuki Olson

Teen Piano
Erik Jacoby
Levi Li
Ellen Dai
Rian Mao
Reina Kimura
Shreyashi Bodaka
Sophia Wan

Adult Piano
Minyoung Rho
Yu-Hsien Chen
Rachel Park
Clara Christian
Tinatin Gudadze


ENSEMBLES ONLINE

Trio Somni
​Erik and Katia Duet



COMPOSITION ONLINE

Teen Composition
Tara Lynam
William Feng

Adult Composition

Olga Amelkina-Vera
Miles Swaminathan
Dinah Bianchi
Dian Shuai
Wang XiaoChen
Bradley Robin
Heng Lin


NEW YORK CITY

Youth Piano
Alexander Zhou
Isaiah Shin
Sophia Zhong
​Matthew Gu
​Milo Gu
Evin Fu
Stanley Hyun
Grace Hwang
Aiden Kim

Teen Piano
Caleb Sharkey
Aaron Liu
Edward Liu
Joyce Xu
Sam Fridman

Adult Piano
Siwon Kim

Youth Strings
Rubi Yujin Kang
Mia Jung-Pitkin

Teen Strings
Chanhee Jin


Ensemble
Schmidt Trio
Flying Strings Chinese Ensemble


Youth Winds & Brass
Naryn Kim


Teen Winds & Brass
Brianna Tang


Adult Winds & Brass
No scores 90 or above


Youth Original Composition
Kai Lin


Teen Original Composition
Sitori Byers


Youth Popular Voice
Cole Bellorgey


Teen Popular Voice
Maria Blas
Cristina Gisella Garcia
Jacquelyn Erickson

Adult Popular Voice
Robert Rinaldo


Youth Classical Voice
Lily Bell Morgan
Hailey Rivera


Teen Classical Voice
Rebecca Marchan
Cristina Gisella Garcia


Adult Classical Voice
​Hyein Hong
Sitong Liu
Sarah Benzinger
Hyeseong Kim
Rachel Barg
John Kun Park
Isabelle Zeledon
Gillian Watson
Gisella Milla
Seul Woo Lee
Sandra Keerthi








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STRINGS ONLINE

​Youth Strings
Deeann Huang
Nathaniel Kim
Brian Chen


Teen Strings
Orion McKenzie
Yale Xie
Johnathan Hu
Justin Liu

Ellie Chung

Adult Strings
Qinzgzhuo Li
Moacyr Teixeira Neto
Yuwa Roten

Alex Tuan

WINDS & BRASS ONLINE

Youth Winds & Brass
No scores 90 or above


Teen Winds & Brass
Jason Yu
Chloe Nam

Adult Winds & Brass
Ionas Mercadal
Zitian Wang
Ana Diaz Asencio


WASHINGTON DC

​Youth Classical Voice

Manami Baba
Sarah Lee
Liam Wang


Youth Popular Voice
Cleo Saliers
Charlotte Foster

​Teen Classical Voice
Gina Vicari
Giavanna Parker
Aurora Dainer
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Teen Popular Voice

Emmanuella DeMers

Adult Classical Voice
Sooyeon Kim
Mandy Brown
Amanda Staub

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Teen Strings
​Emily Shi


Adult Strings
​Kelsey Payne

​Adult Piano
Junweng Liang
Mary Voutsas
​Bibiana Miskolciova

VOICE ONLINE
Youth Voice Classical
James Yeh
Adelina Michel

Youth Voice Popular

Evolette Alexandra Quineldy
Beau Durkin
Alexander Slavin

Teen Voice Classical

Penelope Teague
Mariela Palencia
Diya Koul
Sara Deo
Marissa Emmie Williams

Teen Voice Popular

Srushti Gubbi
Nisha Udomaksorn
Diya Koul
Liliana Rindal
Sara Deo
Manu Gopal
Laurel Aronian
Ella Grenier
Alejandra Espaillat Ferreira
Annabelle Sarawit
Bridget Lomax
Alyssa Abielmona
Divya Beeram
Elizabeth Sahakyants

Logan Marber
Ethan Mathias

Adult Voice Classical
David Rivera Bozon
HyunWoo Song
Congcong Wang
Yujen Tsai
Michael Colman
Yssela Erquiaga
Kyeongseon (Sunny) Choi

Jennifer LaRocco

Adult Voice Popular
Carlos Perez
Sandra Fernandex
Abigail Storm
Roni Ellison

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ASIA ONLINE

Teen Original Composition
Anvay Marthur 

Adult Original Composition
Ruichao Wu
 

Youth Piano
Naphat Chalokepunrat

Teen Winds & Brass
Rundong Liu 

Adult Classical Voice
Zhiyu Cheng
Chen Yanxi
Yu Pan
Ziyi Zeng




EUROPE ONLINE

Youth Piano
Luise Bold

Teen Piano
Victoria Zeng

Teen Winds & Brass
Ellinor Bengtson

Teen Voice Popular
Eva Stengel

Teen Voice Classical
No scores 90 or above

LOS ANGELES

Youth Classical Voice
Katherine Backues

Youth Popular Voice
Eva Mather

Teen Classical Voice
Avantikah Swaminathan
Estella Sky Keyoung
Lavinia Watkins

Adult Classical Voice
Alannah Garnier
Karen Kim
Lily Smith

Youth Piano
No scores above 90

Teen Piano
Elise Watanabe
Evan Yao

Youth Strings
Sacha Jorba-Wu


Teen Strings
Joshua Ho
Khaos Kook
Grant Brady

Adult Strings
John Fawcett

Adult Winds & Brass
Leesak Ko













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