US New Star Strings Competition Winners

2025

The 2025 US New Star Strings Competition winners are listed on our YouTube site. Please visit our channel to check out and support the winners.

We genuinely appreciated every single one of your pieces. We look forward to having you join us again next year to compete!

 

Grand Prize:

 

Top Performer:

Preston Yen, Age: 17, from Folsom, CA

Student of Susan Cook

 

Top Performer Runner Up:

Tabitha H. Tio, Age: 13, from Irvine, CA

Student of Mauricio Lopez-Chollett

 

Top Performer Runner Up:

Nathan Teng, Age: 13, from San Diego, CA

Student of Hernan Constantino


Group Prizes

 

Please visit our YouTube channel to view these students’ performance

Our Youtube Channel
 

 

Group II

Second Prize:

Kaitlyn Chang, Age: 10, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Vicky Wang

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Group III

Second Prize:

Nathan Sun, Age: 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Jackie Gao

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Third Prize:

Jason D. Yu, Age: 13, from San Jose, CA
Student of Jie Gao

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Group IV

Elizabeth Liu, Age: 17, from Richland, WA
Student of Cristian Neacsu

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