2026 December Winners

Daniel Bertold Sestak, violin

4 years old

United States of America

Michael Girgis, piano

4 years old

United States of America

Lucas Zhang, piano

6 years old

Australia

Ben Furman, violin

6 years old

United States of America

Cecylia Xue, violin

6 years old

United States of America

Maisie Choi, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Seraphina Eleanor Djojoatmodjo, piano

8 years old

Indonesia

Daisy Koder, piano

6 years old

United Kingdom

Shirley Zhao, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Alan ChangXing Zhu, piano

6 years old

United Kingdom

Evelyn Wang, piano

6 years old

China

Jasper Pai, violin

6 years old

United States of America - Taiwan

Marcus De, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Esther Victoria Lee, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Charlotte Kang, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Sophie Mei Gregorio, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Patrick Nguyen, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Luke Yu, piano

6 years old

United States of America

Yu Chi Chen, piano

7 years old

Taiwan

Joseph Gu, violin

7 years old

Australia

Grant Gunawan, piano

7 years old

United States of America

Michelle Li, piano

7 years old

United States of America

Katie Xu, piano

7 years old

United States of America

Julianna Christine Wang, piano

7 years old

United States of America

Livia Chen, piano

7 years old

United States of America

Annabeth Xin En Lee, piano

7 years old

United Kingdom

Han Huang, piano

8 years old

Australia

Colette Chen-Ho, piano

8 years old

Australia

Kane Lu, piano

8 years old

Australia

Ming Ji Matthew Hwang, cello

8 years old

Singapore

Isabella Han, piano

8 years old

Australia

Enxia Xu, piano

8 years old

Australia

Isabella Leung, harp

8 years old

Canada

Ayari Kuge, piano

8 years old

Japan - Singapore

Cory Besson, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Scarlett Wheeler-Lyn, singer

8 years old

United States of America

Vyana Balakrishman, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Elin Cui, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Eddie Lee, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Celina Jiang, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Jasper Xu, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Rachel Long, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Alain Kang, singer

8 years old

United States of America

Han Jeong, piano

8 years old

South Korea

Alain Kang, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Venus Kangvanpanich, piano

8 years old

Thailand

Stella Choi, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Cecilia Riesland, violin

8 years old

United States of America

Liam Chelen, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Ava He, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Chase Nguyen, piano

8 years old

United States of America

Daniel Bang, cello

9 years old

Australia

Aidan Xie, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Naphat Chalokepunrat, piano

9 years old

Thailand

Lucas Yeh, piano

9 years old

United States of America - Taiwan

Anna Shi, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Angela Huang, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Yiming (Eamon) Jiang, cello

9 years old

China - United Kingdom

Iris Lin, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Olivia Liu, piano

9 years old

Japan - United States of America

Harper Huang Jiang, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Quinn Schiller, violin

9 years old

United States of America

Tommy Weng, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Tesla Chow, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Ishan Hari, piano

9 years old

India - United States of America

Yiming (Eamon) Jiang, piano

9 years old

China - United Kingdom

Aya Horiuchi, piano

9 years old

Japan - United States of America

Leo Ray, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Shaka Strode, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Niam Sheng, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Chloe Sheen, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Celine Kang, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Meefah Siripanich, piano

9 years old

Thailand

Sylvia Shi, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Daniel Fan, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Hanjun Kim, cello

9 years old

South Korea

Hiwalani Lederer, violin

9 years old

United States of America

Matilda Choi, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Mahealani Lederer, violin

9 years old

United States of America

Anya Berliner, singer

9 years old

United States of America

Hiroto Fujii, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Milan Zhuang, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Angelina Sun, piano

9 years old

United States of America

Preston Liu, piano

10 years old

Taiwan

Daniel Zhao, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Anthony Chong, saxophone

10 years old

Hong Kong

Kimmy Gia-Cat Tran, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Zhangxiaduo Yu, piano

10 years old

China - Thailand

Mako Urakawa, piano

10 years old

Japan

Nylie Su, piano

10 years old

United States of America

William Shen, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Noah Zhong, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Ariel Tian Stewart, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Woochan Kim, violin

10 years old

United States of America

Adrian Chen, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Sachin Balakrishnan, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Mimosa Zhuang, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Jordin Ayane Burrows, piano

10 years old

Japan - United States of America

Chloe Zhang Nacianceno, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Riaan Raul, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Emma Liu, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Michael Held, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Pett Pothanun, alto saxophone

10 years old

Thailand

Gabriella Anderson, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Ellie Kim, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Xinyu Fang, piano

10 years old

United Kingdom

Lily Koder, piano

10 years old

United Kingdom

Lily Koder, singer

10 years old

United Kingdom

Ryan ZiRui Yu, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Baile Lu, violin

10 years old

China - United Kingdom

Olivia Zhang, violin

10 years old

United States of America

Miranda Li, piano

10 years old

Australia

Aaron Truong, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Pett Pothanun, ranat

10 years old

Thailand

Vihaan Sharma, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Waylon Lin, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Landyn Zhou, piano

10 years old

United States of America

Antar Dogalakov Schiemenz, saxophone

10 years old

Switzerland

Jian Lee, cello

10 years old

South Korea - United States of America

David Bik, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Gavril Minnis, piano

11 years old

Romania - United States of America

Farrah Lee, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Henie Jo, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Annabella Liu, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Avery Cherng, cello

11 years old

United States of America

Mir Gurumurthy, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Livia Ou, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Krithi Pantangi, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Parisarang Eamskoolnont, piano

11 years old

Thailand

Tina Ye, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Yongqi Lei, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Govardhan Arungopan Nair, piano

11 years old

India - United States of America

Derek Chen, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Tristan Chow, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Baichen Lu, piano

11 years old

China - United Kingdom

Ethan Jiradisai Ha, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Jessica Guan Chen, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Winnie Pan, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Yashi Shaktawat, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Nobischa Livie Keliat, piano

11 years old

Indonesia

Scarlett Revilak, alto saxophone

11 years old

United States of America

Alec Sagiev, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Olivia See, piano

11 years old

Philippines - United States of America

Sophie Girgis, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Youone Song, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Helen Wang, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Derek Wan, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Edward Avakian, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Aidan Au, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Emma Vavrikova, cello

11 years old

United States of America - Czech Republic

Angeline Tsai, piano

11 years old

Taiwan

Emma Yu, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Roy Kim, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Declan Roberts, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Kylie Nguyen, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Kaylee Zang, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Beverly Chan, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Mio Nakanishi, piano

11 years old

Japan - United States of America

Brandon Choi, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Madeleine Del Deo, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Constance Lin, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Tiffany She, piano

11 years old

United States of America

Lucas Sun, violin

12 years old

United States of America

Kevin Zhang, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Hannah Zhang, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Abby Zhang, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Kota Fujii, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Suyi Sun, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Brandon Chen, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Harrison Ng, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Dayeon Lee, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Janie Shi, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Chuyu Chen, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Seoyoon Joy Ma, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Carly Tse-Sabella, violin

12 years old

United States of America

Tsz Yuet Tang, harp

12 years old

New Zealand - Hong Kong

Sumin Kim, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Zhouyi Li, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Alexander Bisroev, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Jingmei Wu, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Callie Koder, piano

12 years old

United Kingdom

Ploy Pothanun, saxophone

12 years old

Thailand

Sophie Lin, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Michaela Revilak, flute

12 years old

United States of America

Stanley Gu, piano

12 years old

China - Australia

Alexandre Meslet, piano

12 years old

France - Singapore

Katherine Dong, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Skylar Lin, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Aria Walia, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Kimberly Min Jane Chan, singer

12 years old

Malaysia

Ethan Le-Vong, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Ethan Luo, piano

12 years old

Canada

Zoha Irshad, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Venice Kangvanpanich, piano

12 years old

Thailand

Evan Elias, piano

12 years old

United States of America

Gina Liu, piano

13 years old

China

Marissa Huang, flute

13 years old

United States of America

Sophia Law, flute

13 years old

United States of America

Ivy Yi, singer

13 years old

United States of America

Ivy Song, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Alexander Chiu, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Elaine Sun, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Cassie Wang, singer

13 years old

United States of America

Isadora Qi, violin

13 years old

United States of America

Aidan Lin, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Jiayue Gu, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Chloe Cai, piano

13 years old

Singapore - United States of America

Noah Chu, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Xuyao Weng, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Olivia Wang, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Yitong Jiang, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Madelyn Ngo, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Jacob Chen, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Sean Chen, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Miley Hu, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Austen Amley, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Suhani Pandit, bansuri

13 years old

India - United States of America

Sophia Chen, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Olivia Chieh, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Jenson Roth, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Maya Ural, piano

13 years old

United States of America

Jun Den Seng, violin

14 years old

United States of America

Sayu Nakamura, violin

14 years old

Japan

Amalia Steinort, violin

14 years old

Germany

Amerida Hoyd, piano

14 years old

United States of America - Mongolia

Alina Belsak, piano

14 years old

Slovenia

Somang Yoo, violin

14 years old

South Korea

Jason Wu, violin

14 years old

United States of America

David He, violin

14 years old

United States of America

Seongbin Woo, piano

14 years old

South Korea - United States of America

David He, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Carissa Darmawan, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Ansh Gupta, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Brycen Chen, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Sophia Wu, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Evan Camp, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Emma Zheng, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Ethan Chang, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Rhea Prakash, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Leila Choi, viola

14 years old

United States of America

Josheau Feingold, singer

14 years old

United States of America

Sophie Wolf, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Isaac Rhee, violin

14 years old

United States of America

Timothy Choi, cello

14 years old

United States of America

Rachel Chen, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Swar Bhagat, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Michael Lemon, piano

14 years old

Canada

Stacey Corrinthia Keliat, piano

14 years old

Indonesia

Selene Zhang, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Keshav Dehspande, cello

14 years old

United States of America

Keshav Dehspande, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Rushui Guan, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Ashkon Mashayekh, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Annisa Ng, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Tayden Li, piano

14 years old

China - United States of America

Athena Au, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Olivia Wan, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Valensa Nguyenvong, piano

14 years old

China - Vietnam - United States of America

Elizabeth Collier, piano

14 years old

United States of America

Austin Peter Altman, saxophone

14 years old

United States of America

Avery Brandstetter, singer

15 years old

United States of America

Chomin Yim, viola

15 years old

United States of America

Zetian Wang, piano

15 years old

China - United States of America

Yuxiao Huang, violin

15 years old

China

Mason Wu, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Kai Yuan, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Vanessa Natalie Limery, piano

15 years old

Indonesia

Bhavya Machineni, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Daniel Jo, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Bea Curic, piano

15 years old

Croatia

Arya Kantak, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Charley Van, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Ivan Xie, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Rhys LaRoche, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Brian Su, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Siddarth Srinivas, violin

15 years old

United States of America

Colin Hennessy, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Wuxi Fang, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Max Ethan Lee, viola

15 years old

Hong Kong

Rina Yuki, flute

15 years old

Japan - United States of America

Sihyoung Lee, saxophone

15 years old

United States of America

Evangelos Kapur, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Sophia Chen, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Wojciechowski Zuzanna, saxophone

15 years old

Poland

Jorge Cortes Cardoso, piano

15 years old

Spain

Nichadapa Eamskoolnot, piano

15 years old

Thailand

Yuzhu Xie, piano

15 years old

China - United States of America

Haily Zheng, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Paulo Sanchez, piano

15 years old

Mexico - United States of America

Akira Toews, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Gerald Nathanael Keliat, piano

15 years old

Indonesia

Lav Chajka Todorovski, piano

15 years old

Macedonia

Charita Kumworachai, piano

15 years old

Thailand

Franklin Na, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Pranav Sharma, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Jacky Zhu, oboe

15 years old

United States of America

Isra Ozgu Kapusuz, violin

15 years old

Türkiye

Prae Pothanum, khim

15 years old

Thailand

Allen Bai, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Vanbawi Lian, piano

15 years old

United States of America

Prince Domingo, viola

16 years old

Phillipines - Bermuda

Harrison Shin, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Jake Kim, cello

16 years old

United States of America

Terrence Su, piano

16 years old

China - Canada

Amanda Wang, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Matthew Kang, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Sophia Yunseo Kim, violin

16 years old

United States of America - South Korea

Lucas Lee, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Jumpei Morita, cello

16 years old

Japan - United States of America

Ivan Borisov, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Lydia Lo, flute

16 years old

United States of America

Bryce LaRoche, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Lucas Zhang, piano

16 years old

United States of America

Kexin Cai, cello

16 years old

United States of America

Xiaoyu Ge, piano

16 years old

China - United States of America

Yongyan Yu, violin

16 years old

China - United States of America

Hanseung Choi, cello

16 years old

South Korea - United States of America

Helena Belgardt, piano

16 years old

Germany

Maria Julia Niebrzegowska, violin

16 years old

Poland

Vivian Michalske, violin

16 years old

United States of America

Runxin Tao, piano

16 years old

China - United States of America

Amber Ding, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Gunhee Kim, cello

17 years old

United States of America

Jordan Gwon, viola

17 years old

United States of America

Matoi Mikami, harp

17 years old

United States of America

Tara Kim, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Mia Holmgren, cello

17 years old

United States of America

Von Le Doux, violin

17 years old

United Kingdom

Noah Sosnowski, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Lucas Karamanoukian, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Irene Choi, viola

17 years old

United States of America

Sofia Soltani, singer

17 years old

United States of America

Mihika Ranjan, singer

17 years old

United States of America

Abigael de Chambure, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Ankit Marwah, piano

17 years old

Canada - United States of America

David Kohanets, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Grant Nowotny, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Pranav Sundarrajan, piano

17 years old

United States of America

Anastasia Procofiev, piano

17 years old

Canada

Samuel Peltier, violin

17 years old

United States of America

Christopher Kim, double bass

17 years old

United States of America

Evangelia Tsiantzi Mante, piano

19 years old

Greece - United States of America

Enrique Perez Mendoza, singer

19 years old

Mexico - Austria

Alejandro Gonzalez, piano

21 years old

Costa Rica

Weiming Xu, piano

22 years old

China

Michelyn Jefferson Chow, piano

24 years old

Indonesia - Singapore

Hyeryung Joo, piano

26 years old

South Korea - United States of America

Yiqi Guo, piano

26 years old

China - United States of America

Rui Xi, piano

28 years old

China - United States of America

Alida Capobianco, soprano

28 years old

Italy

Danpei Han, piano

29 years old

China - United States of America

Eunjin Jung, piano

30 years old

South Korea

Giovanni Battista Scuderi, violin

30 years old

Italy - United States of America

Kyungran Park, viola

33 years old

South Korea

Xiangru Li, violin

34 years old

China

Ruhin Ismayilov, piano

39 years old

Azerbaijan

Chihiro Sato, piano

40 years old

Japan

Altanshagai Todgerel, topshuur & khoomei

44 years old

China - United States of America

Nafisa Manapat, piano

52 years old

Republic of Tatarstan - United States of America

Lyon Saionji, piano

56 years old

Japan

He Wu, violin

China - United States of America

Trio: Hanjun Kim, cello Jian Lee, cello and Hajun Jung, cello

Chamber Music Group A

South Korea

Duo: Ploy Pothanun, khim and Pett Pothanun, ranat

Chamber Music Group A

Thailand

2026 Winners - New York "Golden Classical Music Awards"