US New Star Strings Competition Winners

2021

The 2021 US New Star Strings Competition winners are listed on our YouTube site. Please visit our channel to check out and support the winners.

We had a large amount of applicants this year, and we genuinely appreciated every single one of your pieces. Out of every age group, we chose a total of 3 winners per age group, and a grand prize overall. Below are the list of the links to the winners of this year, and check out our YouTube channel for the videos of previous years’ winners. We look forward to having you join us again next year to compete!

 

Grand Prize:

 

Top Performer:

Joshua Lee, Age: 12, from Phoenix, AZ

Student of Jooyeon Han

Top Performer Runner Up:

Evangeline Lien, Age: 11, from La Verne, CA

Student of Chu-Ping Lin

Top Performer Second Runner Up:

Nikolia Garoufalidou, Age: 11, from Greece

Student of Kirill Troussov


Group Prizes

 

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

 

 

Group I

First Prize:

Yihan Li, Age: 8, from China
Student of Xiaojun An

 
 

Group II

First Prize:

Evangeline Lien, Age: 11, from La Verne, CA
Student of Chu-Ping Lin

First Prize:

Nikolia Garoufalidou, Age: 11, from Greece
Student of Kirill Troussov

Third Prize:

Hannah Qian Yi Yap, Age: 10, from Malaysia
Student of Prof Dr. Eliseu Silva

 
 

Group III

First Prize:

Joshua Lee, Age: 12, from Phoenix, AZ
Student of Jooyeon Han

Second Prize:

Valerie Chen, Age: 14, from Valencia, CA
Student of Ji Young An

 
 

Group IV

Second Prize:

Jason Chen, Age: 16, from Valencia, CA
Student of Ji Young An