International Etude Competition Winners

2025

The 2025 International Etude Competition winners are listed on our YouTube site (https://www.youtube.com/@USNewStarMusic). 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:

Oliver Corro (Age 18, Fremont CA) — Student of John McCarthy — Also Group V First Prize

Top Performer Runner Up:

Esme Tran (Age 10, Newport Coast CA) — Student of Ana Maria Eckstein — Also Group II First Prize

Top Performer Second Runner Up:

Ellie Xuan (Age 12, San Ramon CA) — Student of Chia-lin Yang — Also Group III First Prize

Group Prizes

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Group I

First Prize:

Amelia X Zhang (Age 7, Sunnyvale CA) — Student of Chia-Lin Yang

Group II

First Prize:

Esme Tran (Age 10, Newport Coast CA) — Student of Ana Maria Eckstein

Second Prize:

Scarlett Liu (Age 10, Irvine CA) — Student of Sally Liu

Third Prize:

Austin Lin (Age 9, Milpitas CA) — Student of Hanzheng Li

Group III

First Prize:

Ellie Xuan (Age 12, San Ramon CA) — Student of Chia-lin Yang

Second Prize:

Lyra Song (Age 11, Los Altos CA) — Student of Chia-Lin Yang

Shua Cheon (Age 13, San Jose CA) — Student of Chia-lin Yang

THIRD PRIZE

Lisa Saito (Age 13, Palo Alto CA) — Student of Nagisa Ariza

Honorable Mention

Sarah Seeger (Age 13, Palo Alto CA) — Student of Hyun-Ju Sung

Group IV

First Prize:

Jonathan Z. Zhou (Age 16, Irvine CA) — Student of Bella Tseng

second Prize:

Angelina Chen (Age 15, San Jose CA) — Student of Kaichi Zhu

honorable mention:

Lois Xu (Age 16, Irvine CA) — Student of Bella Tseng

Group V

First Prize:

Oliver Corro (Age 18, Fremont CA) — Student of John McCarthy

SECOND Prize:

Joshua Tittiranonda (Age 17, San Ramon CA) — Student of Chia-lin Yang