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
Group II
Second Prize:
Kaitlyn Chang, Age: 10, from Cupertino, CA
Student of Vicky Wang
Group III
Second Prize:
Nathan Sun, Age: 14, from San Jose, CA
Student of Jackie Gao
Third Prize:
Jason D. Yu, Age: 13, from San Jose, CA
Student of Jie Gao
Group IV
Elizabeth Liu, Age: 17, from Richland, WA
Student of Cristian Neacsu