2021 Vanguard Winners
First Place Winners:
Eli Breydo - piano
Cobie Buckmire - piano
Jennifer Chen - piano
Lucas Chiche - piano
Semin Chun - violin
Kimia Corke - violin
Ares Economides - piano
Luca Gierlinger - piano
Natsuka Hayashida - piano
Yungeng Hu - violin
Nicole Izaguirre - piano
Laura Jin - violin
Lauren Kang - piano
Minji Kim - violin
Nicholas Kim - cello
Aaron Kotchen - piano
Kristie Lu - violin
Alexandra Maskoff - piano
Benjamin Riveron - voice
Owen Smith - piano
William Woodruff - piano
Jack Yan - Voice
Teachers: Tamila Azadaliyeva, Efrem Briskin, Irina Edelman, Marion Feldman, Bela Horvath, Diana Kim, Jiwon Kim, Min Kwon, Irina Morozova, Lorraine Nubar, Tatiana Pikayzen, Vassily Primakov, Gena Raps, Elizabeth Skavish, Sheryl Staples, Golda Tatz, Lora Tchekoratova, Liana Tretiakova.
Second Place Winners:
Iris Araki - piano
Nupur Ballal - piano
Kavya Ballal - piano
Aran Basu - piano
Noah Berz - violin
Blair Bi - piano
Melanie Chang - cello
Dana Chung - violin
Bori Chung - viola
Alexander Diefenbach - cello
Victor Hsu - violin
William Kim - Shoemaker - cello
Whitney Lin - piano
Conor McMillen - violin
Alexander Moon - cello
Jeremy Ng - piano
Joylyn Wei - violin
Maya Zhan - voice
Daniel Zhang - piano
Teachers: Efrem Briskin, Sheng - hui Wu Chen, Alex Croxton, Edna Garabedian, Mira Kang, Jiwon Kim, Marina Kitaychik, Sayuri Lida, Malcolm Lowe, Terrace Lu, Jisoo Ok, Mark Pakman, Benjamin Sutin, Golda Tatz, Lora Tchekoratova.
Third Place Winners:
John Critelli - cello
Franziska Diefenbach - piano
Emma Leifer - violin
Nadim Spohr - violin
Marina Wong - violin
Teachers: Alex Croxton, Elizabeth Faidley, Mark Pakman, Nicholas Pappone, Eriko Sato.