Results: Best Chopin Performance (5th Edition, 2021)

We are thrilled to announce the results of the 5th edition of the international competition for instrumentalists Best Chopin Performance.

Congratulations to all winners!

Best Chopin Performance is a member of Best Performance Competition Series. All of the competitions in this series are designed in such a way that the award winners will be announced annually on the composers' birthdays. Today is March 1, 2021 -
Frédéric François Chopin's 211th anniversary. Happy Birthday!

We encourage all of the participants who didn't make it to the final round. Don't lose hope, keep trying.

RESULTS

Age Group I

FIRST PRIZE

Chloe Kim
USA

THIRD PRIZE

Connor Cho
USA

Age Group II

FIRST PRIZE

Averie Wu
USA

Carolyn Yang
USA

Leonardo Dinner
USA

Peter Parra
USA

Randy Wang
USA

SECOND PRIZE

Allison Tsai
Taiwan/Australia

Anna Kobayashi
USA

Chloe Cheng
USA

Connor Kim
USA

Ian Kim
South Korea/USA

Jiayin Liang
USA

Keshav Kaushik –Gopal
India/USA

Mia Gu
USA

Nicolette Sophia Ledford
USA

Oliver Wong
USA

Tianyue Yan
USA

THIRD PRIZE

Bella In
USA

Bethany Yung
Hong Kong/USA

Jeannine Zhou
USA

Justin Gao
Canada/USA

Kirk Kang
USA

Age Group III

FIRST PRIZE

Daniel Strebulaev
USA

Eleanor Wang
USA

Ellie Nguyen
USA

Hiroki Matsui
USA

Jin Tan Vietor
Hawaii

Liliana Chai
Canada/USA

Roger Guo
USA

SECOND PRIZE

Anastasia Grunina
USA

Antonina Waliszewska
Poland

Dan Gnip
USA

Daniel Stang
Germany

Iris Balough
USA

Kate Vo
USA

Lucy Li
China

Mateo Hurtado Castillo
Mexico/USA

Rian Mao
China/USA

Ronin Silva
USA

Sarah Chen
USA

Sophia Yingxuan Wang
USA

Vinca Lu
USA

THIRD PRIZE

Alex Nguyen
USA

Amber Lin
USA

Ameya Kiwalkar
USA

Chloe Sim
USA

Chloe So
USA

Danny Shing
USA

Deimi Velcheva
Bulgaria

Josie Liao
USA

Maxwell Derella
USA

Nina Cilliers
South Africa

Sanchali Banerjee
USA

Yuet-Ying Ang
USA

Age Group IV

FIRST PRIZE

Amber Wang
USA

Chelsia Kwon
USA

Daniel Wu
USA

Helena Krolowna
Poland

Jose Andres Alvarez Garcia
Mexico

Megan Liu
USA

Michelle Qiu
USA

Olivia Oh
USA, violin

Ryan Chun
USA

SECOND PRIZE

Abigail Vilk
USA

Amanda Kim
USA

Annika Joshi
USA

Courtney Y. Wu
USA

Dimitar Tsonev
Bulgaria

Joshua Shi
USA

Kaishun Sato-Choi
USA

Keira Chen
USA

Kenneth Duong
USA

Marien Femerling
Mexico

Marina Mravova
Bulgaria

Mehana Ellis
USA

Nathan Yang
USA

Viktoria Vlahova
Bulgaria

Wiktor Gasior
Spain

William Jin
USA

Yoanna-Lora Vasileva
Bulgaria

THIRD PRIZE

Aadhithyaram Balaji
Malaysia/USA

Abby Harris
USA

Bethany Lin
USA

Charity Parrott
USA

Emma Zhang
USA

Ethan Peng
Canada

Farah Mamedova
USA

Keona Lau
USA

Nathaniel Hsu
USA

Neha Srinivasa
USA

Patrick Kwon
USA

Ria Dhillon
USA

Sophie Lin
USA

Therese Tran
USA

Troy Wei
USA

Age Group V

FIRST PRIZE

Dawid Ganczar
Poland

Grace Wang
USA

Vanessa Jan
USA

SECOND PRIZE

Brandon Zhang
USA

Christine Watts
USA

Luke Xia
USA

Sydney Lemley
USA

THIRD PRIZE

Mia Moore
USA

Ensembles

FIRST PRIZE

Duo Braica
Ana Braica, piano
Paul Braica, piano
Germany

Age Group VI

FIRST PRIZE

Yangyang Ruan
China