US New Star Strings Competition Winners

2024

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

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:

Junhao Peng, Age: 15, from Beijing, China

Student of Changhai Wang

Second Performer:

Riko Kasyan, Age: 16, from Houston, TX

Student of Chizu Kataoka

Group Prizes

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Group II

First Prize:

Victoria Cui, Age: 10, from Bellevue, WA
Student of Cristian Neacsu

Group III

First Prize:

Stephen Cui, Age: 12, from Bellevue, WA
Student of Cristian Neacsu

Honner Prize:

Nathan Teng, Age: 12, from San Diego, CA
Student of Hernan Constantino

Group IV

First Prize:

Junhao Peng, Age: 15, from Beijing, China
Student of Changhai Wang

Second Prize:

Riko Kasyan, Age: 16, from Houston, TX
Student of Chizu Kataoka

Honner Prize:

Xavier Semien, Age: 15, from Chandler, AZ
Student of Jamie Wu