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| Left: Mozart c. 1780, detail from portrait by Johann Nepomuk della Croce, Public Domain; Right: Postcard, undated ( ca.1914 ). Title: "Salzburg, seen from Mönchsberg", Public Domain |
Congratulations to all winners!
Best Mozart 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 January 27, 2026 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 270th 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
Instrumentalists
Age Group II
FIRST PRIZE
Camille Li
USA, piano
Darwin Ning
Germany, piano
SECOND PRIZE
Anthony Wu
USA, piano
Cecilia Price
USA, piano
Luna Liu
USA, piano
Mir Gurumurthy
USA, piano
Ryan Li
USA, piano
Sophia-Ayano Saumer
Japan/Guam (USA), violin
Vacheron Li
USA, piano
Yixiao Li
China/USA, piano
THIRD PRIZE
Andrian Carraux
USA, piano
Dominic Gutierrez
USA, piano
Joseph Kevin Chu
USA, piano
Age Group III
FIRST PRIZE
Caroline Li
USA, piano
Matthew Popescu
USA, piano
Pola Malich
Poland, flute
SECOND PRIZE
Caroline Mathews
USA, violin
Jonathan Fang
USA, piano
Katy John
United Kingdom, piano
Theodora Clempus
USA, piano
Zoe Grace Cooper
USA, harp
THIRD PRIZE
Pearl Zhu
China/USA, piano
Thea Darmawan
USA, piano
Wenkai Sandfort
USA, piano
Age Group IV
FIRST PRIZE
Eileen Zhuge
USA, piano
Judy Law
China/USA, piano
Natalie Qian
USA, piano
SECOND PRIZE
Arianna Tu
USA, piano
Katie Chen
USA, piano
THIRD PRIZE
Aaron Liu
USA, piano
Bella Huang
USA, piano
Lucas Choi
USA, violin
Age Group VI
FIRST PRIZE
Jade Rojas
USA, voice
Katarzyna Anna Szwarc
Poland, flute
Age Group VII
FIRST PRIZE
Ziyuan Zhao
China, piano
SECOND PRIZE
Nathan Fairhair-Phillips
USA, violin
THIRD PRIZE
Blake Ryan
USA, voice
Ensembles
Age Group V
THIRD PRIZE
Exposition String Quartet
Maria Pasquale, violin
Marisha Michael, violin
Daniel Fonseca, viola
Sahu Cherukuri, cello
USA
