ART SONG WINNERS

Children's Voices Ages 12 and under (as of February 1, 2023)

First Place Donna Megules
Medford, NJ
Haines 6th Grade Center
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Kristine Biller

Second Place
(tie) Chloe Kesner
Mesa, AZ
Homeschool
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teachers: Allison Houston
Hailey Rivera
Cliffside Park, NJ
Christ the Teacher Academy
Pianist: Liliana Sotirova
Voice Teacher: Amelia DeMayo, Liliana Sotirova

Third Place
(tie) Kailey Sunwoo
Demarest, NJ
Demarest Middle School
Pianist: Haekyoung Lee
Voice Teacher: HyeYoung Kang
Janelle Wu
Johns Creek, GA
Perimeter School
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher:Xianyu Cui

Honorable Mentions Ashley Hua
Marietta, GA
Cristina Garcia (age 12)
North Plainfield, NJ
Juliet Lee
Vienna, VA
Brooks Liang
New York, NY
Lily Bell Morgan
Portsmouth, VA
Emma Tang
Duluth, GA

Finalists Rachel Anand (Austin, TX)
Amber Chen (Duluth, GA)
Amelia Holly (Chicago, IL)
Carter Meza (Mission Viejo, CA)
Anastasia Miin (Saratoga, CA)
Elsa Newbower (Weston, MA)
Nived Panicker (Sammamish, WA)
Anna Reeser (Honey Brook, PA)
Claire Reimer (Coralville, IA)
Renee Tse (Dallas, TX)
Ellaria Vecsey (Ballston Spa, NY)
Dyuti Venkatakrishna (Parsippany, NJ)
Clara Wise (Austin, TX)

Semi-Finalists Eunice Bang (Tenafly, NJ)
Stella Brosius (New York, NY)
Ella Cai (Vaughan, ON)
Kyndall Carson (Wichita, KS)
Tor Cohen (New York, NY)
Dau (Arcadia, CA)
Lilliana DeBoer (Palisades Park, NJ)
Emmanuella DeMers (Vienna, VA)
Scarlett Diviney (Brooklyn, NY)
Jocelyn Dong (Maple, ON)
Mehal Dubey (Johnson City, TN)
Maya Eswaran (Fairfax, VA)
Esther Gao (Alpharetta, GA)
Saanvi Garg (Foster City, CA)
Celeste Grodeon (Mascoutah, IL)
Sid Kamat (Short Hills, NJ)
Lauren Kim (Englewood Cliffs, NJ)
Sarah Lee (Fairfax, VA)
Miranda Libanan (New Milford, NJ)
Alisha Mahajan (Short Hills, NJ)
Penelope Main (Irvine, CA)
Avyay Mangalampalli (Inner Grove Heights, MN)
Veronica Mayasova (Ashland, MA)
Deeya Mehrotra (San Ramon, CA)
Pranshi Mehta (Austin, TX)
Lily Mei (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Aurielle Neu (West Palm Beach, FL)
Nikila Rajan (Allen, TX)
Agneya Roy (Concord, NC)
Suhana Sehgal (Short Hills, NJ)
Samaira Singh (Short Hills, NJ)
Selina Smith (Merced, CA)
Sanmaya Srivastava (Short Hills, NJ)
Cora Stumpf (Sanford, NC)
Charles Sun (North York, ON)
Reyna Vasavada (Livingston, NJ)
Rhea Vasavada (Livingston, NJ)
Jacob Wang (Thornhill, ON)
Hanson Xu (Suwanee, GA)
Queena Yang (Irvine, CA)
Ruolin Yuan (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Audrey Zelkovic (Briarcliff Manor, NY)
Kacey Zhang (Richmond Hill, ON)

Early Teen Voices Ages 13-15 (as of February 1, 2022)

First Place Katherine Ryan
Pearl River, NY
Immaculate Heart Academy
Pianist: Glenn Gordon
Voice Teacher: Amelia DeMayo

Second Place
(Tie) William Lovell
Mesa, AZ
ASU Prep Digital
Pianist: Hope Douglas
Voice Teacher: Nichole Jensen
Alana Merritt
Escondido, CA
St. Joseph Academy
Pianist: Michael Denison
Voice Teacher: Yvette Itano

Third Place
(tie) Sofiia Dorozhkina
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Academy of Musical Arts
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Alina Ilchuk
Lukas Palys
Dallas, TX
St. Mark’s School of Texas
Pianist: Szu-Ying Huang
Voice Teacher: Alexander Rom

Honorable Mentions Katherine Berdovskiy
Davis, CA
Maeve Cunningham
Ridgewood, NJ
Aurora Dainer
Bethesda, MD
Akshi Malhotra
San Jose, CA
Niko Rinaldi
Stamford, CT
Lily Yezdanian
Clifton, NJ

Finalists Saryu Baptla (San Antonio, FL)
Siyona Bordia (Short Hills, NJ)
Daniel Deng (Dallas, TX)
Vince Ermita (New Milford, NJ)
Sienna Gasparrelli (Escondido, CA)
Katherine Gilchrist (Orefield, PA)
Baylee Horvath (Gilbert, AZ)
Maya Joshi (Cresskill, NJ)
Hazel Kim (Buffalo Grove, IL)
Rachel Kim (Fort Lee, NJ)
Diya Koul (Lexington, MA)
Iva Liu (Irvine, CA)
Joshua Marley (Salem, OR)
Mollie Pedersen (Rochester, NH)
Lara Piccitto (South Hackensack, NJ)
Pavani Rhoads (West Palm Beach, FL)
Aanya Santosh (Lincolnshire, IL)
Kendall Sorenson (Armonk, NY)
Ellyanna Tyson (Lusby, MD)
Julianna Wong (Skillman, NJ)
Leila Woodward (Newport Beach, CA)
Margaret Zhang (Syosset, NY)

Semi-Finalists Besch-Turner (Fairport, NY)
Calyna Chen (Chantilly, VA)
Sara Deo (Edison, NJ)
Siyu Fan (Los Gatos, CA)
Jude Frazier (Orlando, FL)
Cristina Garcia (North Plainfield, NJ)
Caitlin Hayles (Port St. Lucie, FL)
Alice Huang (Syosset, NY)
Elizabeth Kandziolka (Madison, NJ)
Keira Kuennemann (Irvine, CA)
Olivia Lee (Leonia, NJ)
Alyssa Mason (Leonardtown, MD)
Annabelle Miin (Saratoga, CA)
Saisha Pal (Herndon, VA)
Vaishnavi Paul (San Jose, CA)
Luke Reimer (Coralville, IA)
Brady Roland (Elverson, PA)
Darby Schlosser (Armonk, NY)
Naomi Sedwick (McLean, VA)
Chelsea Sun (Dallas, TX)
Noella Tae (Daly City, CA)
Emily Tang (San Jose, CA)
Sarah Serena Thompson (Atlanta, GA)
Ella Wang (Little Neck, NY)
Lila Weber (Cave Creek, AZ)
Allison Zhou (Palo Alto, CA)
Eva Lee (Leonia, NJ)
Claire Xiao (Lee, NH)

High School Voices Ages 16-18 (as of February 1, 2023)

First Place Maximus Taylor
Louisville, KY
Dupont Manual High School
Pianist: Bruce Boiney
Voice Teacher: Garrett Sorenson, Elizabeth Batton Sorenson

Second Place
(tie) Erin Chung
Saratoga, CA
Archbishop Mitty High School
Pianist: Sophia Min
Voice Teacher: Cristina Park
Olivia Gonzales
Houston, TX
Kinder High School for the Performing Arts
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Alicia Gianni

Third Place
(tie) Alicia Chu
Newark, DE
Juilliard Pre-College
Pianist: Matthew Jewel
Voice Teacher: Lorrain Nubar
SangHoon Jung
Fort Lee, NJ
Bergen County Academies
Pianist: Hanghyun Lee
Voice Teacher: Ronald Cappon, Yohan Yi

Honorable Mentions David “Trey” Logeman
Kings Mountain, NC
Naysa Marrero
Miami, FL
Gabriel Wang
Vancouver, BC
Briggs Williamson
Delaplane, VA

Finalists Elizabeth Cho (Ellicott City, MD)
Elsa Franks (Stewartson, NH)
Ally Johnson (Howell, MI)

Semi-Finalists Lindsay Alexander (Austin, TX)
Anneliese Baum (Hewlett, NY)
Maya Brown (Delray Beach, FL)
Calia Burdette (Independence, MO)
Isabella Chaboya (Tucson, AZ)
Jonathan Daniel (Smyrna, GA)
Ciela Elliott (Chappaqua, NY)
Sophie Gu (Palo Alto, CA)
Anaika Iyer (Powell, OH)
Ananya Kaushal (Newtown Square, PA)
Alexander Kim (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Roy Kim (Los Angeles, CA)
Michelle Kugel (Sunny Isles Beach, FL)
Abigail Lewis (Pflugerville, TX)
Bridget Lomax (Short Hills, NJ)
Lilliana Mindel (Huntington Beach, CA)
Sophia Politano (Haverford Twp, PA)
Sara Porjosh (Vienna, VA)
Viveka Saravanan (Lake Forest, CA)
Hyewon Son (Englewood Cliffs, NJ)
Anna Trueblood (Webb City, MO)
Ella Vaughn (Cincinnati, OH)
Jaden Yoo (Irvine, CA)

College/Univeristy Voices Ages 18-23 (as of February 1, 2023)

First Place Sarah Fleiss
Philadelphia, PA
Curtis Institute of Music
Pianist: Ting Ting Wong
Voice Teacher: Julia Faulkner

Second Place Lily Bogas
Rochester, NY
Eastman School of Music
Pianist: Jenny Choo Kirby
Voice Teacher: Robert Swensen

Third Place Emily Damasco
Philadelphia, PA
Curtis Institute of Music
Pianist: Jenny Choo Kirby
Voice Teacher: Robert Swensen

Honorable Mentions Even Johnson
Chapman University
Madeleine Keane
Manhattan School of Music
Clara Reeves
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Finalists Molly Blumenfeld
Boston Conservatory
Nicole Khouzami
Carnegie Mellon University
Antoinette Pompe van Meerdervoort
Eastman School of Music
Cole Strelecki
Drake University

MUSICAL THEATRE WINNERS

Children's Voices Ages 12 and under (as of February 1, 2023)

First Place Vinya Chhabra
East Brunswick, NJ
Churchill Junior High School
Pianist: Glenn Gordon
Voice Teacher: Amelia DeMayo, Glenn Gordon and Liliana Sotirova

Second Place
(tie) Evelyn Billingsley
Jacksonville, OR
Cascade Christian School
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Andrea Hochkeppel
Sienna Stoll
Phoenix, AZ
St. Francis Xavier School
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Renee Koher

Third Place
(tie) Kylie Kuioka
Brooklyn, NY
Bridgeway Academy (homeschool)
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Cayden Tan
New York, NY
Horace Mann School
Pianist: Sun Young Chang
Voice Teachers: Sun Young Chang

Honorable Mentions Chance Challen
Santa Barbara, CA
Lincoln Cohen
New York, NY
Kai Edgar
Saint Charles, IL
Everleigh Murphy
Rockford, MI
Shreya Philips
Austin, TX
Dyuti Venkatakrishna
Parsippany, NJ

Finalists Rachel Anand (Austin, TX)
Emily Arruda (New Beford, MA)
Anna Athungal (Scotch Plains, NJ)
Vivian Connelly (Houston, TX)
Addison Deats (Mechanicsburg, PA)
Lilliana DeBoer (Palisades Park, NJ)
Adeline DeFeo (Needham, MA)
Emmanuella DeMers (Vienna, VA)
Sabrina Ferges (Barrington, IL)
Brayden Flores (Corpus Christi, TX)
Melanie Gospodinoff (Fallston, MD)
Heidi Hager (Herndon, VA)
Nicole Hodges (Spring, TX)
Rei Huston (West Lebanon, NH)
Suan Kim (Old Tappan, NJ)
Ava Kimble (Doylestown, OH)
Frederick Kranenburg (Central Point, OR)
Juliet Lee (Vienna, VA)
Audrey Lee (Boca Raton, FL)
Brooks Liang (Campbell, CA)
Elliot Lovell (Mesa, AZ)
David Lovell (Mesa, AZ)
Teddie MacDowell (Olympia, WA)
Avyay Mangalampalli (Inver Grove Heights, MN)
Josephine Martin (New York, NY)
Donna Megules (Medford, NJ)
Lily Mei (Basking Ridge, NJ)
Lexie Moore (Johnson City, TN)
Saish Nagnur (Hillsborough, NJ)
Abigail O’Connor (Munster, IN)
Hailey Rivera (Cliffside Park, NJ)
Willow Seixas (Anacortes, WA)
Akiv Shah (Short Hills, NJ)
Sophie Sobel (Port Washington, NY)
Renee Tse (Dallas, TX)
Sofia Vidaic (Wyckoff, NJ)
Mary Liddy Wyatt (Tupelo, MS)

Semi-Finalists Kileah Aiello (New Bedford, MA)
Bristol Beasley (Muskego, WI)
Isla Bush (Havertown, PA)
Claire Butler (Austin, TX)
Eliana Campanella (Jacksonville, OR)
Kyndall Carson (Wichita, KS)
Sierra Chavez (Fullerton, CA)
Rick Chen (Vaughan, ON)
Annabelle Chung (Sugarland, TX)
Tor Cohen (New York, NY)
Sahana De (East Brunswick, NJ)
Skylar Devito (Carle Place, NY)
Anoushka Dey (Houston, TX)
Jocelyn Dong (Maple, ON)
Mehal Dubey (Johnson City, TN)
Maya Eswaran (Fairfax, VA)
Evelyn Fatuch (Gansevoort, NY)
William Foon (Orinda, CA)
Isabella Gallagher (Oakland, NJ)
Esther Gao (Alpharetta, GA)
Sarah Genne (Fairfax Station, VA)
Zane Grimes-Barlow (Jacksonville, OR)
Celeste Grodeon (Mascoutah, IL)
Charlee Groendal (El Segundo, CA)
Hannah Hodges (Spring, TX)
Ashley Hua (Marietta, GA)
Shruti Iyer (Chandler, AZ)
Faith James (Dayton, OH)
Sid Kamat (Short Hills, NJ)
Rigley Kirkpatrick (Queen Creek, AZ)
Barbara Kokkalis (Havertown, PA)
Niyati Kotagal (Suwanee, GA)
Arya Koul (Lexington, MA)
Audrey LeBouef (Raleigh, NC)
Julia Lee-Kumm (Englewood Cliffs, NJ)
Nicole Li (Woodbridge, ON)
Miranda Libanan (New Milford, NJ)
Antonio Lin (Irvine, CA)
Ivy Liu (Plano, TX)
Grace Lovell (Mesa, AZ)
Fiona MacKinnon (Oak Park, IL)
Alisha Mahajan (Short Hills, NJ)
Margaux Mahan (New York, NY)
Isabella Mariani (Westport, CT)
Cleo Marshall (New York, NY)
Brendan McCanta (Laguna Hills, CA)
Rosalie McCormick (Park Ridge, IL)
Sierra Mendoza (Rocky Hill, CT)
Carter Meza (Mission Viejo, CA)
Maggie Miao (Rye Brook, NY)
Josephine Miller (Scotch Plains-Fanwood, NJ)
Victoria Mills (Lancaster, PA)
Gabriella Montero (Emmaus, PA)
Gowri Nair (Montvale, NJ)
Bella Nazzaro (Lake Worth, FL)
Sofie Nesanelis (Pomfret Center, CT)
Michael Parsi (Hillsborough, NJ)
Shibani Rao (Herndon, VA)
Nadia Ruberg (Brookline, MA)
Erin Scott (Boynton Beach, FL)
Miraya Sharma (North Potomac, MD)
John Michael Starling (Fairhope, AL)
Caroline Stern (Voorhees, NJ)
Cora Stumpf (Sanford, NC)
Angelina Tong (Johns Creek, GA)
Rhea Vasavada (Livingston, NJ)
Grace Wang (San Jose, CA)
Lucy Wang (San Jose, CA)
Christiaan Wilkes (New York, NY)
Ander Yu (Chandler, AZ)

Early Teen Voices Ages 13-15 (as of February 1, 2023)

Early Teen Voices Ages 13-15 (as of February 1, 2022)

First Place Lily Yezdanian
Clifton, NJ
Lacordaire
Pianist: Glenn Gordon, Liliana Sotirova
Voice Teacher: Amelia DeMayo, Liliana Sotirova

Second Place
(tie) Nicole Blanco
Houston, TX
Episcopal High School
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Laura Ballard
Vince Ermita
New Milford, NJ
David E. Owens Middle School
Pianist: Glenn Gordon
Voice Teacher: Amelia DeMayo

Third Place
(tie) Eve Antonelli
Oradell, NJ
Bergen County Academies
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Lori Fredrics
Edward Turner
Oradell, NJ
Bergen County Academies
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment
Voice Teacher: Terri Grosso

Honorable Mentions Marina Chamedes
New York, NY
Diya Koul
Lexington, MA
Katherine Ryan
Pearl River, NY

Finalists Ava Acconzo (Bloomingdale, NJ)
Madison Anderer (Palm Springs, CA)
Ella Armandi (Havertown, PA)
Haley Griffin (Cypress, TX)
Ava Patel (Berrien Center, MI)
Allie Weld (Mesa, AZ)
Eva Woodruff (New York, NY)
Katie Wylie (Franklin, MA)

Semi-Finalists Adisynn Ackley (Vancouver, WA)
Aaliyah Bailey (Centerville, OH)
Abi Balachandran (Houston, TX)
Ruhi Balaji (West Bloomfield, MI)
Katherine Berdovskiy (Davis, CA)
Jamie Choe (Dunn Loring, VA)
Elizabeth Clegg (Greer, SC)
Elsa Dees (Greenwich, CT)
Eden Dupre (New Bedford, MA)
Kalea Edgar (Saint Charles, IL)
Ella Gabbay (Voorhees, NJ)
Sienna Gasparrelli (Escondido, CA)
Taylor Gilbert (St. Peters, MO)
Delilah Grad (Austin, TX)
Stefan Herrera (Houston, TX)
Baylee Horvath (Gilbert, AZ)
Maya Joshi (Cresskill, NJ)
Rose Knapp (New York, NY)
William Lovell (Mesa, AZ)
Georgia Martin (Tacoma, WA)
Alvina Mastakar (Terre Haute, IN)
Sophia O’Toole (Medfield, MA)
Mollie Pedersen (Rochester, NH)
Brady Roland (Elverson, PA)
Naomi Sedwick (McLean, VA)
Kendall Sorenson (Armonk, NY)
Monique Tian (Newark, DE)
Ellyanna Tyson (Lusby, MD)
Andrew Tyson (Marlton, NJ)
Leila Woodward (Newport Beach, CA)
Sofia Work (Fairfax, VA)
Allison Yodis (Cinnaminson, NJ)

High School Voices Ages 16-18 (as of February 1, 2023)

First Place Lauren Huserik
Renton, WA
Kentridge High School
Pianists: Deborah Mackey
Voice Teacher: Darcy Fulkerson

Second Place
(tie) Lindsay Alexander
Austin, TX
Stephen F. Austin High School
Pianists: Austin Haller
Voice Teachers: Shaunna Shandro
Alexander Kim
Laguna Niguel, CA
St. Margaret’s Episcopal School
Pianists: Lex Leigh
Voice Teacher: Denise Milner Howell

Third Place
(tie) Kaiya Bagley
Medford, OR
St. Mary’s School
Pianists: Dr. Eunae Ho
Voice Teacher: Andrea Hochkeppel
Zoey Blackman
Voorhees, NJ
Melissa Daniels Vocal Studio
Pianist:Melissa Daniels McCann
Voice Teacher: Melissa Daniels McCann

Honorable Mentions Chelsea Bohn-Pozniak
Cinnamonson, NJ
Kathryn Dooley
Austin, TX
Ciela Elliott
Chappaqua, NY
Aurna Mukherjee
Austin, TX
Claire Shirley
Greenville, SC

Finalists Lucy Grunden (New York, NY)
Lexi Howard (Greer, SC)
Tierney Violet Joyce (Scranton, PA)
Morgan Maher (Butler, NJ)

Semi-Finalists Esther Abiog (Allen, TX)
Jessica Aezen (Cherry Hill, NJ)
Evan Alena (Voorhees, NJ)
Braelyn Andrade (New Bedford, MA)
Katie Barnum (Denahm Springs, LA)
Anika Bhaskaran (Bellevue, WA)
Jasmin Chen (Great Falls, VA)
Kate Clemetson (Reno, NV)
Gabriel Cozzetto (Birmingham, MI)
Sabatino Cruz (Stamford, CT)
Shannon Daly (Havertown, PA)
Elias Doell (Medford, OR)
Jingyi Du (Oakland Gardens, NY)
Molly Dupre (New Bedford, MA)
Strahlia Durr (Culver City, CA)
Yu Feng (Saratoga, CA)
Meredith Fernett (Lebanon, PA)
Jack Forgea (Santa Barbara, CA)
Lucy George (Maryville, TN)
Elizabeth Gill (Dublin, OH)
Lauren Goldsborough (Voorhees, NJ)
Nina Granik (Needham, MA)
Isabel Hoch (White Plains, NY)
Ally Johnson (Howell, MI)
Dante Johnson (Queen Creek, AZ)
Abigail Lewis (Pflugerville, TX)
David "Trey" Logeman (Kings Mountain, NC)
Bridget Lomax (Short Hills, NJ)
Rika Nishikawa (Chicago, IL)
Niya Petkova (Apex, NC)
Rachel Rogstad (Loma Linda, CA)
Thomas Roper (Tupelo, MS)
Emma Schrier (Cinnaminson, NJ)
Alyssa Sherman (Byron Center, MI)
Chloe Shirley (Dandrige, TN)
Jessica Smith (Havertown, PA)
Eliza Tait (Newport Beach, CA)
Donatella To (Laguna Niguel, CA)
Maria Torchia (Moorestown, NJ)
Ellie Wang (Newfields, NJ)
Claire Waskow (Madison, NJ)

Young Adult Voices Ages 18-23 (as of February 1, 2023)

Enrollment in a school is not required in this category, nor is a voice teacher, but if the singer provided that information it appears below.

First Place Anna Zavelson
Ann Arbor, MI
University of Michigan
Pianist: Casey Baker
Voice Teacher: Elizabeth Gray

Second Place
(tie) Vera Brown
Memphis, TN
Webster University
Pianist: Zach Nuemar
Voice Teacher: Elizabeth Gray
Ashlyn Combs
New York, NY
Winthrop University
Hal Leonard Recorded Accompaniment

Third Place
(tie) Diego Bly
Providence Forge, VA
Christopher Newport University
Pianist: Suzanne Daniels
Voice Teacher: Colin Ruffer
Alex Daspit
McFarland, WI
Webster University
Pianist: Jeffrey Carter
Voice Teacher: Jeffrey Carter

Honorable Mentions Meg Booker
Northern Kentucky University
Curran Bramhall
University of South Carolina
Grace Caccavari
Xavier University
Owen Clark
Xavier University

Finalists Isaiah Henry (Webster University)
Emily Kars (Huntington University)
Sara Moore (Christopher Newport U.)
Cole Strelecki (Drake University)
Grace Vickery (Columbia, SC)

Semi-Finalists Sarah Alexander (U. of South Carolina)
Gracie Auld (U. of South Carolina)
Te’Jah Beaton (U. of South Carolina)
Sophie Carpenter (Bard College)
Gianna DiTucci (Manhattan School of Music)
Sarah Fountain (Azusa Pacific Univ.)
Melaina Furgeson (Christopher Newport University)
Kristabel Kenta-Bibi (U. of Michigan)
Josiah Mustaleski (Belmont Univ.)
Lilly Nowak (Oklahoma City U.)
Alexis Pinto (Xavier University)