US New Star Piano Competition by Composer Winners

2024

The 2024 US New Star Music Competition by Composers winners are listed on our YouTube site. Please visit our channel to check out and support the winners.

Out of every age & composer 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:

Oliver Corro, Age 17, from Freemont, CA
Student of Yuko Yoshida
Group IV: Chopin-FIRST PRIZE,

Top Performer Runner Up:

Karen Matsui, Age 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu
Group III: Bach-FIRST PRIZE,

Top Performer Second Runner Up:

Meryl Zhang, Age 17, from Fremont, CA
Student of Alexander Katsman
Group IV: Free Choice-FIRST PRIZE.

Group Prizes

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Group I

Chopin:

First Prize:

Esme Tran, Age 9, from Newport Beach, CA
Student of Ana Maria Eckstein

Bach:

First Prize:

Liam Sun. Age 6. from Clyde Hill, WAStudent of Renata Shumskaya

Contemporary:

First,SECOND,THrid Prize:

No Winner

HONORABLE MENTION:

Vihaan Mahisekar, Age 8 from Cupertino, CA Student of Mihyun Kim

HONORABVLE MENTION:

Scarlett Mu, Age 9, from San Leandro, CA
Student of Lina Choa

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Owen Zhuang, Age 8, from Saratoga, CA
Student of Lena Grozman

Second Prize:

Katherine Cheng, Age 9, from Sunnyvale, CA
Student of Wenchun Ku

Third Prize:

Brayden Din-Eugenio, Age 9, from Woodland CA
Student of Jill Covert

Group II

Chopin:

First Prize, SECOMD PRIZE, THIRD PRIZE:

No Winner

HONORABLE MENTION

Kylie C. Chow, Age 11, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Cindy Lee

Bach:

First Prize,SECOND PRIXE, THIRD PRIZE

No winner

HONORABLE MENTION

Josephine Gan, Age 12, from Davis, CA
Student of Jill Covert

Contemparary:

First Prize:

Aiden Shim, Age 11, from Redwood City, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Second Prize Tie:

Grace Cao, Age 11, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Third Prize:

Ellie Yang, Age 11, from Winterville, NC
Student of Wei Coglio

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Grace Cao, Age 11, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Second Prize:

Kylie C. Chow, Age 11, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Cindy Lee

Third Prize:

Isabella Cheng, Age 12, from Sunnyvale, CA
Student of Wenchun Ku

Honorable Mention:

Kai Xin, Age 12, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Pilar Hsue

Group III

Chopin:

First Prize:

Garrett Cai, Age 15, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Second Prize:

Gareth Lee, Age 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

THIRD PRIZE

Wynn Huang, Age 14, from Sunnyvale, CA
Student of Rozina Tenenbaum

Bach:

First Prize:

Karen Matsui, Age 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Second Prize:

Gareth Lee, Age 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

THRID PRIZE

Alexander Tang, Age 13, from Mountain View, CA Student of Wen Chun Ku

Honorable Mention:

Jordan Rowe, Age 14, from Los Angeles, CA
Student of Joanne Pi-He Wu

Group IV

Chopin:

First Prize:

Oliver Corro, Age:17, from Fremont, CA
Student of Yuko Yoshida

Bach:

First Prize:

Isabella Kong, Age:16, from Medfield, MA
Student of Jeanie Lee

Contemporary

First Prize:

Kate Hsia, Age:16, from Menlo Park, CA
Student of Tamami Honma

SECOND Prize:

Minghao Zou, Age 17, from Santa Clara, CA
Student of Coglio Wei

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Meryl Zhang, Age 17, from Freemont, CA
Student of Alexander Katsman

second Prize:

Garrett Cai, Age 15, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Third Prize:

Kate Hsia, Age:16, from Menlo Park, CA
Student of Tamami Honma

HONORABLE MENTION:

Tianke Zhao, Age 17, from Sunnyvale CA, Student of Wenchun Ku

HONORABLE MENTION

A. T. Bruno, Age 18, from Marseilles, IL, Student of E Lee