Each year, about 20 finalists are selected from among the many scholarship applicants by a panel of accomplished teachers who listen, anonymously to their audiotapes. At the recent auditions these finalists, ages 7-18, played two contrasting pieces from memory before three prominent adjudicators, Elirah Avni, Stefan Young, Paul Zeigler who selected the winners. Members, teachers and parents were in the enthusiastic audience.
Over the last nineteen 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. Each year a total of about $3,000 is granted, depending on revenues from Musicale attendance.
The Scholarship Finalists
- Penny Luan, student of Ingrid Clarfield, First Place, Group I
- David Hua, student of Ingrid Clarfield, Second Place, Group I
- Steve Lawrence Hsu, student of Veda Zuponcic, Third Place, Group I
- Paul von Autenried Jr., student of Chiu-Yze Lin, First Place, Group II
- Raymond Zhang, student of Ingrid Clarfield, Second Place Group II
- Kevin Jang, student of Chiu-Tze Lin, Joint Third Place, Group II
- David Ko, student of Frank Levy, Joint Third Place Group II
- Christopher Law, student of Ryugin Mikuriya, Honorable Mention, Group II
- Sue-Jin Jung, student of Yelena Ivanov, First Place, Group III
- Anastasia Falasca, student of Veda Zuponcic, Second Place, Group III
- Taylor Lee, student of Chiu-Tze Lin, Third Place, Group III
- Nicholas Bleisch, student of Eric Houghton, Honorable Mention, Group III
- Kimberly Li, student of Marion Zarzeczna, Honorable Mention, Group III
- Andrew Liu, student of Marion Zarzeczna, Honorable Mention, Group III
- Sheena Ching, student of Evelyn Golz, First Place, Group IV
- Sara Hong, student of Yuri Kim, Joint Second Place, Group IV
- Daniel Rorke, student of Don-Alexandre Feder, Joint Second Place, Group IV
- Catherine Xu, student of Yining Wang, Third Place, Group IV
- Josephine Li, student of Marion Zarzeczna, Honorable Mention, Group IV
- Kevin Luan, student of Ingrid Clarfield, Honorable Mention, Group IV