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The 10. Rising Stars Grand Prix 2025

International Music Competition Berlin

Solo performance (piano, strings, wind instruments, plucked instruments, voice, accordeon, organ)

Category: YOUTH (up to 9 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize Lydia Xu, 8, piano, Canada
3rd Prize Harper Hu, 8, piano, Australia
Honorable mention with good results
Chenyi Li, 6, violin, China
Honorable mention
Cui Yiyi, 9, violin, China
Honorable mention Mikaela Elisabet Behanan-Koshy, 8, violin, UK

Category: JUNIOR (10-12 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize Mia Wang, 12, flute, Australia
Honorable mention with very good results
Alexander Liu, 11, piano, Australia
Honorable mention with very good results
Ekaterina Borischik, 12, flute, Belarus
Honorable mention with  good results
Jenny Li, 12, cello, Australia
Honorable mention with good results
Elena Feng, 10, cello, Australia
Honorable mention with good results
Ashley Oh, 12, voice (musical), USA
Honorable mention with good results
Qin Haoran, 12, violin, China
Honorable mention with good results
Yuran Jiang, 10, violin, China
Honorable mention
Li Xinye, 11, violin, China
Honorable mention
Thomas Nikolaev Demerdzhiev, 12, violin, Bulgaria
Certificate of participation
Grace Zhang, 12, voice, USA

Category: INTERMEDIATE (13-15 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize David Lin, 15, violin, Australia
2nd Prize Nikolia Garoufalidou, 14, violin, Greece
3rd Prize Han Mo Sun, 15, violin, China
3rd Prize Evangeline Lien, 14, viola, USA
3rd Prize Mateus Carneiro, 14, double bass, Brazil
Honorable mention with very good results
Hannah Tsai, 13, viola, Australia
Honorable mention with very good results
Katelyn Taychachawongse, 15, Khim Thai (traditional music), Thailand
Honorable mention
Elizabeth Guo, 14, voice, USA
Certificate of participation
Lucille Huang, 14, voice, USA
Certificate of participation
Samer Boureslan, 14, piano, Lebanon

Category: ADVANCED (16-18 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize Muntean Lois, 17, violin, Romania
3rd Prize Margarita Petridou, 17, viola, Greece
3rd Prize Mia Ye, 16, voice (musical), USA
3rd Prize Iris Hai, 16, voice (musical), USA
Honorable mention with very good results Oriana Wojciechowska, 17, violin, Poland
Honorable mention with very good results Guo Ru, 16, violin, China
Honorable mention
Amber Woytowitz, 17, voice, USA
Honorable mention
Ziqing Zhou, 16, voice, China
Certificate of participation
Chen Zhuo, 16, tuba, China
Certificate of participation
Brandon Wu, 16, voice (jazz), USA

Category: SENIOR (19 years and older)

1st Prize Mimi Lin, 19, oboe, China
2nd Prize Endi Chen, 27, violin, China
3rd Prize Chengkai Hu, 20, clarinet, China
3rd Prize Su Kyung Jang, 31, flute, South Korea
Honorable mention with very good results Yixuan (William) Sun, 22, piano, New Zealand
Honorable mention with very good results
Jin Dai, 20, marimba, China
Honorable mention with very good results
Yixun Yang, 30, piano, China
Honorable mention with good results
Xinyu Xie, 23, piano, China
Honorable mention with good results
Kristian Cvetkovic, 34, piano, Switzerland
Honorable mention with good results
Aneta Pavkova, 26, harp (jazz), Czech Republik
Honorable mention
Haiyun Wang, 23, cello, China
Honorable mention
Branislava Brinic, 39, voice (soprano), Serbia
Honorable mention
Zhixun Cui, 22, voice, China
Honorable mention
Yuanxin Xie, 19, voice (musical), China
Certificate of participation
Daniel Pfennigs, 26, violin, Germany
Certificate of participation
Guanzhongda Shi, 23, oboe, China

Category: AMATEUR (19 years and older)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Honorable mention with very good results Jhon Randal Ortiz Rincon, 44, piano, Colombia
Honorable mention with good results
Oleksandr Tolstyak, 26, voice, Ukraine

Chamber music (from duo to sextet with or without piano)

Category: ADVANCED (14-18 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize Kian Oezguenser, 15 & Georg Schupelius, 14 & Avalon Stttrop, 15, piano trio, Germany
Honorable mention with good results
Jaewok Kim, 17 & Adrian Seojun Lee, 17 & Jisung Kim, 19 & Hyunseok James Kim, 17, jazz ensemble, USA and South Korea

Category: SENIOR (19 years and older)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize Jiachen Qin, 26 & Kaiwen Zhao, 25, piano duo, China