Winners 2011

Each year, about 20 finalists are selected from among the many scholarship applicants by a panel of accomplished teachers who listen, anonymously to their CDs. At the recent auditions these finalists, ages 7-18, played two contrasting pieces from memory before three prominent adjudicators, Dr. Eric Fung, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer and Nicolas Schidlovsky, who selected the winners. Members, teachers and parents were in the enthusiastic audience.

Over the last twenty one years, more than 100 students have received Steinway Society scholarships. Many of the past winners have gone on to win other state and national prizes and study music in college.

The Scholarship Finalists

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  • Nicolas Gritz, student of Paul Zeigler, First Place, Group I
  • Joshua Baw, student of Veda Zuponcic, Second Place, Group I
  • Hans-Derek Yu, student of Veda Zuponcic, Third Place, Group I
  • Emil Deng, student of Veda Zuponcic, Honorable mention, Group I
  • Danielle Tseng, student of Yining Wang, Honorable mention, Group I
  • Gabrielle Hsu, student of Veda Zuponcic, First Place, Group II
  • Albert Gu, student of Paul Zeigler, Second Place, Group II
  • Helen Shen, student of Lana Ivanov, Third Place, Group II
  • Roshan Benefo, student of Rita Shklar, Honorable Mention, Group II
  • Edward Gelernt, student of Veda Zuponcic, Honorable Mention, Group II

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  • Alexander Lo, student of Veda Zuponcic, First Place, Group III
  • Kevin Kong, student of Chiu-Ling Lin, Second Place, Group III (not present for picture)
  • Matthew Eng, student of Veda Zuponcic, Third Place tie, Group III
  • Vincent Li, student of Ingrid Clarfield, Third Place tie, Group III
  • Audrey Luo, student of Tomoko Harada, Honorable Mention, Group III
  • Steve Hsu, student of Veda Zuponcic, Honorable Mention, Group III
  • Justin Chae, student of Paul Zeigler, Honorable Mention, Group III
  • Amanda Liu, student of Veda Zuponcic, Honorable Mention, Group III
  • AllanWang, student of Yining Wang, Honorable Mention, Group III
  • Constance Kaita, student of Chiu-Ling Lin, First Place tie, Group IV
  • David Loe, student of Ryugin Mikuriya, Second Place tie, Group IV
  • Farshad Tahvildar-Zadeh, student of Larissa Korkina, Second Place tie, Group IV
  • Amanda Li, student of Ingrid Clarfield, Honorable Mention, Group IV
  • Sonya Ching, student of Arkady Aronov, Honorable Mention, Group IV (not present for picture)