2020 PRIMA VOLTA MUSIC COMPETITION WINNERS
Cash Prize Winners
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GRAND PRIZE
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Age category 3 to 13
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Age category 14 to 19
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Lily Kwak, piano
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Sarah Li, piano
Nicolas Lin, violin
Wyeth Minami, viola
Aurelia Faidley-Solars, cello
Christian Yoo, clarinet
Maya Joshi, voice
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Lily Kwak, piano
Alexander Oh, cello
Emma Su, flute
Kenny Kim, clarinet
Andrea Nalywajko, voice
First Place
Angela Butz, piano
Jacqueline Chen, piano
Regina Cho, piano
Abiageal Devine, piano
Christian Douglas, piano
Olivia Dunleavy, piano
Alexia Fang, piano
Yuntong Guan, piano
Halle Hau, piano
Yiming Huang, piano
Joelle Jeon, piano
Shrey Jhalani, piano
Lily Kwak, piano
Jeanne Lee, piano
Melissa Lee, piano
Bowen Liang, piano
Jaden Liu, piano
Sarah Li, piano
Paige Lopez, piano
Pennie Lu, piano
Duc Nguyen, piano
Serin Oh, piano
Milan Radjabli, piano
Tianqi(George) Sun, piano
Andrew Wan, piano
Sophie Wolf, piano
Alex Yang, piano
Aaron Ye, piano
Mason Zhou, piano
Maxwell Brown, violin
River Brown, violin
Chloe Shiho Chang, violin
Avagail Hulbert, violin
Jennifer Jang, violin
Julia Jang, violin
Chrissy Jung, violin
Isabella Jung, violin
Ashley Y. Kim, violin
Se-Eun Kim, violin
Amelia Lee, violin
Nathan Lin, violin
Nicolas Lin, violin
Moises Molina, violin
Mia Pakola, violin
Sofia Skoldberg, violin
Arabelle Song, violin
Iris Sung, violin
Kate Vo, violin
Sydney Yan, violin
Ellie Yu, violin
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Stephanie Cho, viola
Hunter Kui, viola
Wyeth Minami, viola
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Simon Minami, cello
Alexander Oh, cello
Aurelia Faidley-Solars, cello
Annamaria Witek, cello
Daniel Yoo, cello
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Hyunkyung Katherine Lee, harp
Thatcher Harrison, classical guitar
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Nayoung Kim, flute
Emma Su, flute
Audrey Yan, flute
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Iris Chang, clarinet
Kenny Kim, clarinet
Christian Yoo, clarinet
Maya Joshi, voice
Helena He, voice
Chloe Kim, voice
Andrea Nalywajko, voice
Emily Son, voice
Angela H Song, voice
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Camerata Youth Chamber Choir, ensemble; Lynn Chu, Matthew Ha, Anna Huh, Hannah Joung, Daniel Kim, Edwin Kim, Joon Young Kim, Jinwoo Lim, Paige Min, Jieun Oh, Sung Joon Park
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Second Place
Chloe Shiho Chang, piano
Jacob Chin, piano
Lilliana DeBoer, piano
Terry Deng, piano
Arosh De Silva, piano
Cassandra Papadatos, piano
Lauren Perez, piano
Elli Ray, piano
Sandhya Ray, piano
Sage Rhee, piano
Nikhil Seth, piano
Aiden Wan, piano
Nina Wang, piano
Madison Yang, piano
Daniel Yoo, piano
Jingxin Zhong, piano
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Regina Cho, violin
Gabriella Foster, violin
Phoebe Kim, violin
Danielle Lee, violin
Joseph Lee, violin
Eloisa Park, violin
Ryan Saleem, violin
Julia Shen, violin
Lauren Shim, violin
Youhao Wang, violin
Owen Wei, violin
Julian Won, violin
Amy Xiao, violin
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Ashley Gil, viola
Phoebe Ro, viola
Ayush Saran, viola
Isabelle Son, viola
William Song, viola
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Brendan Cho, cello
Eunsun Choi, cello
Henry Idone, cello
Ryan Shim, cello
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Eunhye Choi, flute
Alyson Lee, flute
Annika Moon, flute
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Derek Lee, oboe
Jonathan Lai, clarinet
Anita Liu, clarinet
Kieran Corcoran, Saxophone
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Alexandra Bae, voice
John Chang, voice
Natalie Hahn, voice
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Third Place
Ryan Cho, piano
Constantin Farinaccio, piano
Danny Jang, piano
Paul Nasr, piano
Ethan Park, piano
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Elsie Rey-de-Castro, violin
Sayuri Kataoka, violin
Jonathan Kim, violin
Michelle Kim, violin
Seongil Oh, violin
William Wu, violin
Sophia Yoo, violin
Andreas Pelekis, cello
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Honorable Mention
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Andrey Diaz, piano
John Mauro, piano
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best teachers
Dae Hee Ahn, Eunjung Ahn, Toby Appel, Karen Beardsley, Irina Bendetsky, Daniela Bracchi, Louis Caimano, Ivy Chang, Jessica Chang, Susannah Chapman, Sharon Cho, Young Bin Cho, Seungho Choi, Yousun Chung, Ingrid Clarfield, Alex Croxton, Susan Deaver, Amelia DeMayo, Elizabeth Faidley, Bart Feller, Eliot Fisk, Illya Filshtinskiy, Mira Gill, Madeleine Golz, Ye-Jin Han, Tomoko Harada, Ella Heifets, Bela Horvath, Hyunjin Jang, Hans Jorgen Jensen, Youngbin Jo, Hye Young Kang, Victoria Kang, Masao Kawasaki, Judy Kessler, Chloe Kiffer, Boeun Kim, Chungsun Kim, Eui Kim, Euntaek Kim, Heejung Kim, Jinyoung Park Kim, Jiwon Kim, Sooyeon Kim, Yoojung Kim, Yuri Kim, Jonathan Koh, Minji Kwon, Jeehyoun Lee, Jee Sun Lee, Junghee Lee, Karen Kim, Kyung Ah Lee, Yu Jeong Lee, Hanbo Liu, Liana Loo, Elizabeth MacCorquodale, Dmitrii Mokrenko, Eunmi Moon, Jérôme Mouffe, Meyer Nam, Miyong Park, Manijeh Pickard, Elmar Oliveira, Matti Raekallio, Kyu Rhee, Renee Rosen, Shelley Beard Santore, Ann Setzer, Minjoo Shin, Kah Yun Song, Michael Thomopoulos, John Ward, Mun-Tzung Wong, Grace Yang, Fan Yang, Seo-Jin Yang, Stacie Yao, Young Kwang Yoo, Katha Zinn