We are happy to announce the winners of American Fine Arts Festival Competition in piano, strings, winds, voice & chamber music categories for the 2017-2018 season (Winter-Spring selection). This year, the level of the competition was exceptionally difficult, with over 400 students partaking in the festival. We would like to thank everyone who participated, to extend our congratulations on your impressive achievements, and encourage those who did not win this year to re-apply for during the next audition. Last but, most certainly, not least, we would like to express our gratitude to all the teachers who worked tirelessly to prepare their students for this season’s auditions.
- Recital Fee: $350. This fee includes participation in the concert, five guest tickets, 4 digital pictures, Certificate of Excellence and Diploma of Recognition for the teacher.
- The Recital fee for ensembles is $250/person.
- Please make checks payable to Art & Music Unlimited,
and send it to American Fine Arts Festival, P.O. Box 106, Holmdel, NJ 07733. - The Deadline is May 5, 2018
- The recital fee is non-refundable.
- Detailed information about the winners’ concert will be emailed to the winners after May 15, 2018
Weill Rectal Hall
• June 3, 2018 at 7:30pm (Limited placements)
• June 9, 2018 at 7:30pm (The concert is complete)
• June 23, 2018 at 1pm (The concert is complete)
• June 24, 2018 at 1pm (The concert is complete)
• September 22, 2018 at 1pm (The concert is complete)
• October 14, 2018 at 7:30pm
• October 21, 2018 at7:30pm
Leanna Bai, piano, MA
Ajita Bala, violin, NY
Eunha Basu, piano, MA
Michelle Bi, piano, CA
Sophie Bi, piano, CA
Garrett Blosen, piano, CA
Xiang Cai, piano, CA
Alexander M. Campos, NY
Benjamin Frank Chan, piano, MA
Ethan Chan, piano, PA
Megan Chan, piano, PA
Emma Chang, piano, CA
Angela Chen, piano, CA
Carter Chen, piano, CA
Daria Chen, piano, CA
Hannah Chen, piano, CA
Andrew Chen, piano, MA
Annabella Chen, piano, MA
Catherine Chen, piano, MA
Elaine Chen, piano, MA
Erica Cheng, piano, CA
Emily Cheng, piano, MA
Joshua Cheng, piano, MA
Matthew Chin, piano, CA
Chris Choi, piano, CT
Odelia Chong, piano, CA
Harrison Chou, viola, CA
Joy Chu, piano, CA
Trent Chu, piano, CA
Danika Dai, piano, MA
Jade Dai, piano, MA
Tarini Dasari, piano, MA
Catherine DeMario, viola, NJ
Chinmay Deshpande, piano, NY
Jennifer Do-Dai, piano, MA
Ava Ekiefaie, piano, CA
Leon Fan, piano, MA
Jerry Fang, piano, PA
Alysa Feng, piano, CA
Angela Feng, piano, MA
Shreya Ganti, piano, CA
Isaac Graylin, piano, MA
Alexander Greer, piano, PA
Justin Gu, piano, MA
Katherine Gu, piano, MA
Amy Guo, piano, CA
Ashley Guo, piano, CA
Caden Guo, piano, CA
Elaine Guo, piano, CA
Johnson Guo, piano, CA
Joshua Hao, piano, CA
Camilla Hayao, piano, MA
Claire Howard, piano, CA
Harrison Hsu, piano, CA
Hillary Hsu, piano, CA
Terrence Hu, piano, CA
Fiona Huang, piano, CA
Sophie Huang, piano, CA
Edward Huang, piano, CA
Micha Hughes, violin, NY
Emma Illidge, piano, MA
Ishya Jalla, piano, CA
Flora Jin, piano, CA
Lixuan Jin, piano, MA
Emily Kang, piano, MA
Remedy Kaplan, piano, CA
Solace Kaplan, piano, CA
Imaan Kashim, violin, Great Britain
Zoe Ko, piano, CA
Abhishek Krishnan, piano, CA
Tiffany Kwok, piano, CA
Nicole Lam, piano, CA
Michael Law, piano, CA
Evan Le, piano, CA
Vincent Le, piano, CA
Daniel Lee, piano, MA
Vivian Lee, violin, NY
Nicole Leonidov, violin, VA
Sabeline Lesokhin, piano, NY
Maya Leung, piano, NY
Jennifer Lew, piano, CA
Charlotte Lew, violin, CA
Althea li, piano, CA
Madeleine Li, piano, MA
Oliver Li, piano, MA
Avery Li, piano, NY
Kevin Lin, piano, CA
Erin Liu, flute, CA
Jason Liu, piano, CA
Jiazheng Elvis Liu, piano, CA
Lianlian Liu, piano, CA
Samantha Liu, piano, CA
Isabella Liu, piano, MA
James Liu, piano, MA
Naomi Liu, piano, NY
Tyler Lu, piano, CA
Norman Lu, piano, MA
Wesley Luh, viola, CA
Andrea Ma, cello, CA
Emily Ma, piano, MA
Olivia Ma, piano, MA
Rachel Mathew, voice, MA
Isabel Mavrides, violin, NY
Charles Mazof, piano, MA
Arya Mehran, piano, CA
Neeka Mehran, piano, CA
Leia Mitwalli, voice, CT
Jonathan Mong, piano, NY
Elizabeth Moshkevich, piano, NJ
Sabrina Nguyen, piano, CA
Evan Ning, piano, MA
Junyao Pan, piano, CA
Lucia Papikian, voice, MA
Nishka Parikh, piano, MD
Joshua Park, piano, CA
Jubilee Park, piano, CA
Matthew Parrella, piano, MA
Charlene Pau, piano, CA
Olivia Peng, piano, PA
Anisha Prakash, piano, MA
Elizabeth Qian-Tsuchida, piano, MA
Anson Quon, piano, CA
Sahana Ramesh, piano, MD
Jay Rana, piano, NJ
Renee J. Roberts, violin, MD
Catherine Ruan, piano, CA
Denis Ryabovol, violin, NH
Nicole Savitsky, piano, NY
Benjamin Shaar, piano, MA
Andrea Shang, piano, MA
Stephanie Shao, piano, CA
Agnes Shen, piano, MA
Alyssa Shen, piano, MA
Andrew Shen, piano, MA
Julia Shi, piano, PA
William Shi, piano, PA
Katherine E Song, violin, MD
Raine Soriano, piano, CA
Kathy Su, piano, CA
Kelvin Su, piano, CA
Jerry Sun, piano, CA
Ruixin Sun, piano, CA
Claire Tang, piano, MA
Ningxin Tao, piano, CA
Sara Tardif, piano, MA
Richard Tian, piano, MA
Yufei Tian, piano, MA
Katie Tian, piano, NY
Caroline Ting, piano, MA
Louie Tsai, violin, CA
Benjamin Tseng, piano, CA
Yasmeen Tsipena, piano, CA
Anthony Tu, piano, IL
Zoe Tweten, piano, CA
Michael Varshavskiy, piano, NJ
Alice Wang, piano, CA
Matthew Wang, piano, CA
Seraphini Wang, piano, CA
Vincent Wang, piano, CA
Jasmine Wang, piano, MA
Xing Han Wang, piano, MA
Aaron Wang, piano, NY
Lyons Wang, piano, NY
Alina Watson, piano, NY
Maya Watson, piano, NY
Lan Wei, piano, CA
William Wang, piano, MA
Esther Wu, piano, CA
Jessica Wu, piano, MA
Margaret Wu, piano, PA
Karina Wugang, piano, VA
Adrienne Xiao, piano, CA
Shu Yang Xie, piano, CA
Lily Xing, piano, MA
Jiayi Xu, piano, CA
Hanbo Xu, piano, CA
Brandon Yan, piano, CA
Angela Yan, piano, MA
Rachel Yan, piano, MA
Alexander Yang, piano, MA
Joshua Yap, piano, CA
Julia Yee, piano, MA
Charlize Yee, piano, NY
Kelvin Yuan, piano, VA
Katherine Zeng, piano, MA
Allison Zhang, piano, CA
Carissa Zhang, piano, CA
Jiatong Zhang, piano, CA
Alan Zhang, piano, MA
Amelia Zhang, piano, MA
Michelle Zhang, piano, MA
Powell Zhang, piano, MA
Ronnie Zhang, violin, CA
Katie Zhao, piano, NY
Connie Zhao, piano, VA
Daniel Zheng, piano, CA
Bryan Zheng, piano, MA
Mabel Zhong, piano, CA
Haotian Zhong, piano, MA
George Zhou, piano, CA
Emily Zhou, piano, MA
Alice Zhou, piano, NY
Ensemble groups
Katie and Eric Koh, piano duet, CA
Jubilee and Joshua Park, piano duet, CA
Joy Ding / Alexander Sequin, violin & guitar duet, MA
Evan Meyer, piano / Joy Ding, violin / Jonah Covell, cello, piano trio, MA
Misha Hughes / Ajita Bala / Vivian Lee / Daniel Lee / Isabel Mavrides / Analise Chen, violin’s sextet, NY
Amy and Ashley Guo, piano duet, CA
- Recital Fee: $330. This fee includes participation in the concert, five guest tickets, 4 digital pictures, Certificate of Excellence and Diploma of Recognition for the teacher.
- Please make checks payable to Art & Music Unlimited,
and send it to American Fine Arts Festival, P.O. Box 106, Holmdel, NJ 07733. - The Deadline is May 5, 2018
- The recital fee is non-refundable.
- Detailed information about the winners’ concert will be emailed to the winners after May 15, 2018
June 30, 2018 at 6pm
Lauren Alley, violin, NJ
Sophia Cheng, piano, CA
Annie Chui, piano, CA
Abbie Deng, piano, MA
Emilia Deng, piano, MA
Elyssa Duggan, voice, PA
Digang Fan, piano, CA
Shizhe Fan, piano, CA
Daniel Guzman, piano, MD
Ahana Jashi, piano, NJ
Hannah Jeong, violin, MD
Eon Jeong, violin, MD
Ahana Joshi, piano, NJ
Nicole Leonidov, violin, VA
Jiajie Lin, piano, CA
Vanessa Liu, piano, CA
Jacob Makar-Limanov, voice, MA
Artyom Martirosyan, voice, MA
Elizabeth Morgievich, violin, NJ
Yiyi Ouyang, cello, CA
Jay Rana, cello, NJ
Alex Tang, piano, MA
Ethan Tieu, piano, CA
Angelika Tzioumis, violin, VA
Nancy Tzioumis, violin, VA
mahi Vakil, piano, NJ
Esther Wu, voice, CA
Jiakai Xu, piano, CA
Angela Yang, violin, VA
Grace Yang, violin, VA
Wanqing Zhou, piano, CA
XinYue Zhou, piano, CA
Natalia Akopian
Ruzanna Akopjan
Marina Alekseyeva
Victoria Avetisian
Lilit Babayan
Craig Bate
Julia Bernstein
Dmitry Borisovsky
Magdolna Bornemisza
Irina Brener
Jeffrey Campbell
Olga Chala
Hsuan-Ya Chen
Zhanna Chernyakova
Amy Chiu
Hye Eun Choi
Sue Dearing
John Enz
Joanna Ezrin
Ruzanna Faramazyan
Niva Fried
Marine Geladze
Marina Genina
Svetlana Gorokhovich
Viktoria Grigoreva
Fei Guo
Natalia Hanukai
David Hodakins
Lesia Houk
Amy Huang
Yin Yin Huang
Susanna Israyelyan
Tiffany Jones
Romana Kalyoncu
Yelena Khaydarov
Galina Khutoryansky
Yeji Kim
Joy M. Kiszely
Vera Klepikov
lilia Kochetova
Marina Konovalova
Margarita Kotlyarova
Dr. Irina Koulikova
yiyi Ku
Gayaneh Kumar
Mark Lakirovich
Tatyana Levina
Yingwen Lewis
Fan Li
Jan C. Li
Tien S. Li
Lin Lin
Leon Livshin
Marina Lo
Elena Makarova
Natela Mchedlishvili
Sueanne Metz
Rita Mikulinsky
Irina Morgan
Dr. Dmitri Nazarenko
Marina Obukovsky
Andrew Park
Yevgeniy Perebeyev
Jason Son Phu
Olga Popova
Arlene Portney
Maryam Pourmalek-Mehran
Galina Prilutskaya
Anna Rozovsky
Ellen Sargisian
Irirna Shachneva
Sandra Shen
Dorothy Shi
Nilly Epstein Shilo
Lawrence Shubert
Anton Smirnov
Larisa Solovyova
Anahit Sevoyan
Bohan Sung
Yumin Tsai
Vivian Tsang
Bella Hui-hsin Tseng
Rouzan Vanesian
Helena Vesterman
Li Wang
Yu Wang
Man-Mei Wu
Claudia Xi
Tian Yu Yang
Claudia Yun Xi
Ethan YiDong
Liu Dun Ying
Wei-san Yue
Andrew Zador