US New Star Music
Piano Competition Winners

2020

The 2020 US New Star Music Piano 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:

Lina Hisada, Age: 17, from Arcadia, CA

Student of Nobuyo Nishizaka

Top Performer:

Sora Corro, Age: 10, from Fremont, CA

Student of Yuko Yoshida

Top Performer:

Matthew Hahn, Age: 13, from Lake Forest, IL

Student of Christina Tio

Group Prizes

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Group I

First Prize:

Alisa Yunfei Huang, Age: 7, from Newport Beach, CA
Student of Ana Maria Eckstein

Second Prize:

Esme Soae Tran, Age: 6, from Newport Beach, CA
Student of Ana Maria Eckstein

Katherine Ma, Age: 7, from Pleasanton, CA
Student of Yi-Fang Wu

Third Prize:

Natalie Zhou, Age: 5, from Baton Rouge, LA
Student of Ning Gao

Catherine Yang, Age: 6, from Baton Rouge, LA
Student of Ning Gao

Felix Suo, Age: 6, from Ormond, Australia
Student of Eva Agizim

Arisa Hirao, Age: 7, from Foster City, CA
Student of Kaori Wada

Group II

First Prize:

Chanya Bayla Somboonvechakarn, Age: 8, from Bangkok, Thailand
Student of Irina Novikova

Lynn Ueno, Age: 8, from Fremont, CA
Student of Anna Poklewski

Ming Jasmine Cheung, Age: 8, from Hong Kong
Student of MT Wong

Third Prize:

Hiroshi Corro, Age: 8, from Fremont, CA
Student of Yuko Yoshida

Emmeline Chloe Hadeli, Age: 8, from Switzerland
Student of Slava Spiridonov

Honorable Mention:

Elliott Leung, Age: 8, from San Ramon, CA
Student of Yi-Fang Wu

Tangtang Wang, Age: 8, from Beijing, China
Student of Yuehan Wang

Landon Kroon, Age: 9, from Torrance, CA
Student of Jun Kurasako

Group III

First Prize

Sora Corro, Age: 10, from Fremont, CA
Student of Yuko Yoshida

Chloe Ding, Age: 11, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Third Prize:

Kevin Shen, Age: 10, from Centreville, VA
Student of Silva Blazquez

Honorable Mention:

Jordan Rowe, Age: 10, from Los Angeles, CA
Student of Yawen Wu

Maxwell Lee, Age: 11, from Irvine, CA
Student of Ana Maria Eckstein

Group IV

First Prize:

Matthew Hahn, Age: 13, from Lake Forest, IL
Student of Christina Tio

Katelyn Deng, Age: 11, from Fremont, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Irene Hwang, Age: 13, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Erna Gulabyan

Third Prize:

Zoie Wang, Age: 12, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kaichi Zhu

Edric Zhang, Age: 12, from Fremont, CA
Student of Le Yu

Irene Zhang, Age: 13, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Honorable Mention:

Garrett Cai, Age:12, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Mariacristina J Calcagno, Age: 13, from Philadelphia, PA
Student of Yu Xi Wang

Benjamin Jiang, Age: 13, from Elk Grove, CA
Student of Natsuki Fukasawa

Group V

First Prize:

Daniel Zhu, Age: 15, from West Chester, PA
Student of Yu Xi Wang

Second Prize:

Ethan D. Yu, Age: 15, from Fremont, CA
Student of Anna Poklewski

Third Prize:

Adriana Zhou, Age:14, from Irvine, CA
Student of Bella Tseng

Megan Liu, Age:14, from Valley Park, MO
Student of Zena Ilyashov

Jacob Winefeld, Age:14, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Nora Ayzman

Honorable Mention:

Oliver Corro, Age: 13, from Fremont, CA
Student of Yuko Yoshida

Tiffany Yung, Age: 14, from East Williston, NY
Student of Vivian Liu

Theresa Yung, Age: 14, from East Williston, NY
Student of Vivian Liu

Cady Chen, Age: 15, from Saratoga, CA
Student of Kaichi Zhu

Ryan F Zhang, Age: 15, from Devon, PA
Student of Marianna Prjevalskaya