2019 MTNA(NJ) Student Performance Competitions RESULTS

Wei-Yuh Christina Xie, Chairperson & Senior Coordinator
Amy I-Yun Tu, Junior and Young Artist Coordinator

Printable Winners List

JUNIOR LEVEL

PIANO SOLO
Winner: Christopher Shin                                           Teacher: Veda Zuponcic 
Alternate: Alyssa Xu                                                    Teacher: Ingrid Clarfield
Honorable Mention: Maxwell J. Chen                       Teacher: Beatrice Long 
 Hannah Kim                              Teacher: Chiu-Tze Lin                                

STRINGS
Winner: Chelsea Wang, Violin                                     Teacher: Jeremy Zhu
 Alternate: Nicolas Lin, Violin                                       Teacher: Elizabeth Faidley 
 Honorable Mention: Matthew Ho, Cello                 Teacher: Mira Kang

WOODWINDS
Winner: Shuyuan Sun, Flute                                          Teacher: Joseph Lu
 Alternate: Audrey Yan, Flute                                         Teacher: Amy I-Yun Tu


SENIOR LEVEL

PIANO SOLO
Winner: William Chen                                                    Teacher: Michael Thomopoulos
 Alternate: Natalie Joyce Chow                                       Teacher: Beatrice Long 
 Honorable Mention: Jasmine Elizabeth Meyer Teacher: Julia Lam    
 Elizabeth Yang                        Teacher: Grace Yang                  
 Hans-Derek Yu                      Teacher: Veda Zuponcic 

STRINGS
Winner: Bethany Grace Bobbs, Cello                           Teacher: Catherine Bobbs                                                     
Alternate: Charlotte Rose Depew, Violin                  Teacher: Tunde Gaal
 Honorable Mention: Angelina Dong, Violin        Teacher: Jeremy Zhu
Amy Wang, Violin                Teacher: Jeremy Zhu
 Henry Zheng, Violin           Teacher: Nancy Wilson 

 WOODWINDS
Winner: James Wang, Saxophone                                  Teacher: Jordan Smith
 Alternate: Ethan Feng, Clarinet                                     Teacher: Kenneth Ellison

Senior Piano Duet
State Representative: Gordon Li and Jasmine Meyer Teacher: Julia Lam                      

Senior Voice
State Representative: Amanda Claire DeMichele        Teacher: Kristine Biller

YOUNG ARTIST LEVEL

PIANO
Winner: Wenyan Han                                                        Teacher: Veda Zuponcic
 Alternate: James Hunter Morris                                      Teacher: James Goldsworthy 

NJMTA Performs got off to a fabulous start at Acorn Glen on October 24th!

The residents and staff of the Assisted Living Residence were treated to an excellent program filled with instrumental and vocal delights.  We presented a varied program of piano solo, piano duet, flute/piano, violin/piano and voice/piano works.

Thank you to the following performers for sharing their time, energy and talent with so many:

Chiu-Ling Lin, Christina Xie, Ingrid Tang, Amy( I-Yun) Tu, Wennie Kao, Yevgeny Morozov, Betty Stoloff

We are in the process of scheduling the next NJMTA Performs event.  Stay “tuned”!

2018 Commissioned Composer Competition Results

This year’s commissioned composer was Juri Seo.

STUDENT

Eric Li
Annabelle Chow
Adora Rao

Claire Hua
Jordan Guo
Angela Zhang

Patrick Sun
Ellie Shin

Catherine Jiang (piano) & Nora Lee (violin)

PRIZE

1st
2nd
3rd

1st
2nd
3rd

1st
HM

1st

COMPOSITION

Intermed Piano - Sonatine, mvt. I



Beginner Piano - Sonatine, mvt II


Advanced Piano - Sonatine, mvt III

Violin & Piano Duo - Arco

TEACHER

Chiu-Ling Lin
Stella Xu
Stella Xu

Chloris Li
Stella Xu
Chiu-Tze Lin

Stella Xu
Grace Yang

Chiu-Tze Lin
Yousun Kim