Virginia Waring International Piano Competition (Formerly the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition)

2007 Winners »

2007 Prize Winners:

Junior 1st Place Solo - Jan Lisiecki, Canada, 12 years old

Junior 1st Place Concerto - Colton Peltier, USA, 12 years old

Intermediate 1st Place Solo - Wei Xin "Bryan" Zhou, China, 13 years old

Intermediate 1st Place Concerto - Yue Bing "Brian" Lin, China, 15 years old

Junior 2nd place solo - Aaron Kurz, USA

Junior 2nd place concerto - Weston Mizumoto, USA, 12 years old

Intermediate 2nd place solo - Vijay Venkatesh, USA, 16 years old

Intermediate 2nd place concerto - Connie Kim Sheng, USA, 15 years old

Junior 3rd place solo - TJ Keanu Tario, Hawaii

Junior 3rd place concerto - Sarina Zhang, Canada, 11 years old

Intermediate 3rd place solo - Christine Kim, USA, 15 years old

Intermediate 3rd place concerto - Junyao Peng, China, 16 years old


INTERMEDIATE CONCERTO ROUND CONTESTANTS:

Dai Zhang - Liszt

Jeremiah Trujillo - Beethoven

Alice Hwang - Liszt

Reed Tetzloff - Ravel

Jason Bae - Liszt

Vijay Venkatesh - Liszt

Amy Zhang - Mendelssohn

Andrew Ramos - Prokofiev

Irwin Jiang - Liszt

Gary Chan - Prokofiev

JUNIOR CONCERTO CONTESTANTS

Annie Kwok - Shostakovich

John Yoo - Beethoven

Aileen Gozali - Mozart

Tracy Wong - Beethoven

Andrea Choi - Beethoven

TJ Keanu Tario - Mozart

Stephanie Cai - Beethoven

Aaron Kurz - Mozart

Jan Lisiecki - Bach

Reiko Tsuchida - Beethoven

Kristin Qian - Mozart

Chris Zhang - Shostakovich

Audrey Yim - Beethoven

Cindu Lu - Mozart

JUNIOR SOLO SEMI-FINALS - 9 AM START, Wed Mar. 28:

# 48 - Aaron Kurz of Dallas, Texas (age 11)

#49 - Aileen Gozali, Fujian, China (age 12)

#88 - Sarina Zhang, San Diego & Canada (age 11)

#34 - Jan Lisiecki, Canada (age 12)

#21 - TJ Keanu Tario, Hawaii, (age 12)

INTERMEDIATE SOLO SEMI-FINALS - START 1:30 - Wed Mar 28

#35 - Christine Kim, Palo Alto, age (age 16)

#14 - Wei Xin Zhou - Shanghai, China (age 13)

#23 - Yuebing (Brian) Lin, Shenzhen, China (age 15)

#31 - Vijay Venkatesh, Laguna Niguel, CA (age 16)

#56 - Reeds Tetzloff, Bloomington, MN (age 15)

Tuesday, March 27:  Junior Solo (continued)

Starting at 9 am:

Kristin Qian

Annie Kwok

Colton Peltier

Jan Lisiecki

Aaron Kurz

Hilda Huang

Break

Reiko Tsuchida

Wesley Tiu

Chris Zhang

Cindy Lu

John Yoo

Evan Lin


Monday, March 26: INTERMEDIATE SOLO  (continued)

20 min. each, starting at 8:40 am:

Jeremiah Trujillo

Priscella Chan

Caitlin Carmack

BREAK

Starting at 10:30:

Reed Tetzloff

Danielle Kim

Wei Xin Zhou

JUNIOR SOLO COMPETITION - starting at 3:00

10 minutes each:

Stephanie Cai

Andrea Choi

Trenton Takaki

Aileen Gozali

Sarina Zhang

TJ Keanu Tario

Starting at 4:30:

Audrey Yim

Tracy Wong

Raymond Ku

Gabrielle Chou

Weston Mizumoto

Dennis Fang

INTERMEDIATE MASTER CLASS - 9 am

Sunday, March 25:  Intermediate Solo Competition:

Starting at 8:40 AM in the Indian Wells Theater on the Campus

Jason Bae

Maile Sarah Cha

Hotaik Tommy Sung

Dai Zhang

Page Young Moon

Starting at 10:45 AM:

Irwin Jiang

Dasom Kim

Andrew Ramos

Junyao Peng

Vijay Venkatesh

LUNCH 12 - 2

Starting at 2:00 PM

Connie Kim-Sheng

Gary Chan

Christine Kim

Alice Hwang

Starting at 4:10

Jonathan Allen Keith

Xuan Amy Zhang

Yuebing (Brian) Lin

Jae H. Kim