US New Star Piano Competition by Composer Winners

2025

The 2025 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:

Kyle Yeung, Age 17, from Irvine, CA
Student of Sasha Starcevich
Group IV: Chopin, Bach, Any Russian Composer,Free Choice -FIRST PRIZE

Top Performer Runner Up:

Paxton Radityo, Age 12, from Los Gatos, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu
Group II: Chopin-FIRST PRIZE,

Top Performer Second Runner Up:

Waddah Chehadeh, Age 17, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Tiffany Shi
Group IV: Chopin, Bach, Free Choice-Second PRIZE.

Group Prizes

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Group I

Chopin:

First Prize:

Elsie Lin, Age 8, from Redmond, WA
Student of Qian Yin

Bach:

First Prize, SECOnD PRIZE, THIRD PRIZE:

No Winner

Russian Composer:

First Prize:

Alyssa Ma, Age 8, from Bellevue, WA
Student of Qian Yin

Second Prize:

Oscar Yin, Age 8 from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

Third Prize:

An Pham, Age 8, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Sharon Wu

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Cayden Zeng, Age 9, from Sunnyvale, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

Second Prize:

Edelynn Chiu, Age 9, from Union City, CA
Student of Annie Lo

Group II

Chopin:

First Prize:

Paxton Radityo, Age 12, from Los Gatos, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Second Prize:

Aiden Shim, Age 12, from Redwood City, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Third Prize:

Jiexi Fu, Age 11, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Helena Ma

Lucas Chang, Age 12, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

Grace Cao, Age 12, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kaichi Zhu

HONORABLE MENTION:

Kylie Clarice Chow, Age 12, from Los Gatos, CA
Student of Yi Shin Lee

Bach:

First Prize:

Vincent Yang, Age 10, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

SECOND PRIzE:

Grace Cao, Age 12, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kaichi Zhu

Third Prize:

Julia Zizhou Chen, Age 12, from San Jose, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

Russian Composer:

First Prize:

No Winner

Second Prize:

Livia Tan, Age 10, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Wenchun Ku

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Grace Cao, Age 12, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Second Prize:

Vincent Yang, Age 10, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Huajun Zhang

Layla Guan, Age 10, from Elk Grove, CA
Student of Shanshan Lang

Third Prize:

Ryan Lan, Age 12, from Santa Clara, CA
Student of Wei Coglio

Group III

Chopin:

First Prize:

No Winner

Second Prize:

Sarah Zhou, Age 15, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Helena Ma

THIRD PRIZE

Kai Xin, Age 13, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Pilar Hsue

Bach:

First Prize:

Roshni Balajee, Age 15, from San Ramon, CA
Student of Amy Zanrosso

Second Prize:

Nicole Mok, Age 15, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Wen Chun Ku

Group IV

Chopin:

First Prize:

Kyle Yeung, Age:17, from Irvine, CA
Student of Sasha Starcevich

second Prize:

Waddah Chehadeh, Age 17, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Tiffany Shi

Third Prize:

Heather Wang, Age:16, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Bach:

First Prize:

Kyle Yeung, Age:17, from Irvine, CA
Student of Sasha Starcevich

second Prize:

Waddah Chehadeh, Age 17, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Tiffany Shi

Russian Composer:

First Prize:

Kyle Yeung, Age:17, from Irvine, CA
Student of Sasha Starcevich

SECOND Prize:

Heather Wang, Age:16, from San Jose, CA
Student of Kai Chi Zhu

Garrett Cai, Age 16, from Los Altos, CA
Student of Sujeeva Hapugalle

Third Prize:

Ivan Chen, Age:16, from New Hyde Park, NY
Student of Vivian Liu

Free Choice:

First Prize:

Kyle Yeung, Age:17, from Irvine, CA
Student of Sasha Starcevich

second Prize:

Waddah Chehadeh, Age 17, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Tiffany Shi

Chency Hung, Age 17, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Rose Chen

Third Prize:

Christopher H. Lu, Age:16, from San Jose, CA
Student of Helena Ma

Daniel Solomon Lin, Age:16, from Morgan Hill, CA
Student of Helena Ma

Emma Li, Age:16, from Palo Alto, CA
Student of Wen-Chun Ku

HONORABLE MENTION

Natalie Wong, Age 16, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Annie Lo