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The 8. Rising Stars Grand Prix 2023

International Music Competition Berlin

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

Category: YOUTH (up to 9 years old)

1st Prize Yeonah Kim, 9, violin, South Korea
2nd Prize Edward Mcmartin, 8, violin, Australia
2nd Prize  Felix Suo, 9, piano, Australia
3rd Prize Zoe Chu, 8, cello, China
Honorable mention with very good results
Kristiāns Isakovs, 8, violin, Latvia
Honorable mention with very good results Anran Su, 7, piano, China
Honorable mention with very good results Celadonia Qianzhi Huang, 8, violin, China
Honorable mention with very good results Chenming Ye, 9, piano, China
Honorable mention with very good results Zoe Navarro, 9, violin, Peru
Honorable mention
Boris Tsallahov, 7, recorder, Ukraine
Certificate of participation
Alicia Marie Claudine Bernard, 8, piano, France

Category: JUNIOR (10-12 years old)

1st Prize Minghan Li, 10, piano, China
2nd Prize
Seong On Kim, 11, violin, South Korea
2nd Prize
Yeji Maria Lee, 11, cello, South Korea
3rd Prize
Luocheng Zhang, 12, cello, China
3rd Prize
Brendan Li, 10, piano, Canada
Honorable mention with very good results
Matt Zhao, 12, piano, United Kingdom
Honorable mention with  very good results
Johnson Qu, 10, violin, USA
Honorable mention with very good results
Yuhan Li, 10, violin, China
Honorable mention with very good results
Calliope Smith, 11, violin, USA
Honorable mention
Natalia Mazurek, 10, viola, Poland

Category: INTERMEDIATE (13-15 years old)

1st Prize Odysseas Tsakalidis, 14, violin, Greece
2nd Prize Fei Chang, 12, cello, China
3rd Prize
Kyle Yeung, 15, piano, USA
3rd Prize
Soomin Oh, 15, flute, South Korea
3rd Prize
Shuiying Rao, 15, violin, China
Honorable mention with very good results
Jonathan Weng, 15, piano, Canada
Honorable mention with very good results
Alicia Yui Chit-Ko, 15, voice, China
Honorable mention with very good results
Seaena Kim, 14,  violin, USA/Canada/South Korea
Honorable mention with good results
Yanjia Yang, 14, piano, China
Honorable mention
Aylin Mahmudova, 14, piano, Azerbaijan
Honorable mention
Yan Sun, 13, voice, China

Category: ADVANCED (16-18 years old)

1st Prize
Grigorescu Valentiu – Constantin, 16, piano, Romania
1st Prize Yunhoo Lee, flute, 16, South Korea
3rd Prize Henry Tushman, 16, piano, USA
3rd Prize Aranza Ortega, 17, piano, Mexico
3rd Prize
Kaira Soin, 15, sitar (folk music), USA
Honorable mention with very good results Joseph Park, 16, flute, USA
Honorable mention with good results
Petru Pane, 18, clarinet, Romania
Honorable mention  with good results
Eliza Isakova, 16, oboe, Latvia
Honorable mention
Joon-Hyung Daniel Noh, 17, voice, USA
Certificate of participation
Sissi Goh, 16, piano, USA

Category: SENIOR (19 years and older)

1st Prize  –
2nd Prize
Marcelina Sztekmiler, 22, violin, Poland
2nd Prize
Soyoung Shin, 35. violin, South Korea
3rd Prize
Henry Quan, 19, violin, United Kingdom
3rd Prize
Ziqing Lin, 20, cello, China
3rd Prize
Aristoteles Papadimitrio, 30, piano, Greece/Germany
3rd Prize
Martin Marijanović, 24, Tambura – brač (folk music), Croatia
3rd Prize Ding He, 28, voice (jazz), China
Honorable mention with very good results Honguang Wang, 51, percussion, China
Honorable mention with very good results Timothy Chiang, 36, piano, Australia
Honorable mention with very good results Miriam Barbierato, 23, double bass, Italy
Honorable mention with good results Kristian Cvetkovic, 32, piano, Switzerland
Honorable mention
MinQi Shi, 28, piano, China
Honorable mention
Désirée Del Santo, 27, flute, Italia
Certificate of participation Yiru Wang, 23, piano, China
Certificate of participation Liu Tong Yu, 20, piano (jazz), China
Certificate of participation Huiru Bao, 19, flute, China

 

Category: AMATEUR (19 years and older)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Akiko Koide Gomez, 67, violin, USA

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

Category: ADVANCED (14-18 years old)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Certificate of participation
Eric Koh, 17, Katie Koh, 13, piano duo, USA

Category: SENIOR (19 years and older)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize Miguel Angel Villeda Cerón, 26, Greta Papa, 44, Christos Fountos, 26, Mexico/Greece/Cyprus, piano trio
Certificate of participation Gyeongrim Bok, 29, Hwaeun Choi, 29, violin piano duo, South Korea
Certificate of participation
Li Yicai, 20, Liu Xiaoqiu, 27, Ludan Huang, 23, China, clarinet, cello, piano trio

Category: AMATEUR (19 years and older)

1st Prize
2nd Prize
3rd Prize
Honorable mention
Ensemble Quator Squad, Madagascar

Grand Cash Prize Winners:

Odysseas Tsakalidis (violin), Yeonah Kim (violin)