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.