Past Winners of Knoxville Piano Festival
2024 Prizewinners
Congratulations to all of the prizewinners for the 2024 Knoxville International Piano Festival and Competition! The results are as follows:
Artist Category
1st Place – Parnian Khalafrezaei Heidari
2nd Place – Ye-Eun Hyun
3rd Place – Priscila Navarro
Honorable Mentions – Jeremi Lukanus & Ivy Smith
Best Performance of a Contemporary Work – Ye-Eun Hyun
The Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation Chopin Prize – Jeremi Lukanus
Senior Virtuoso
Baroque Category
1st Place (Sponsored by the Nashville Steinway Piano Gallery) – Hannah Plaisted
2nd place – Timothy Oyier
Classical Category
1st Place – Elijah Little
2nd Place – Nuoyan Li
3rd Place – Hannah Plaisted & Timothy Oyier
Honorable Mentions – Michael Bonanno & Kathryn Larsen
Chopin Category
1st Place – Jonny Liu
2nd Place – Timothy Oyier & Nuoyan Li
3rd Place – Junwon Choi
Honorable Mention – Barbara Kapusta
Romantic/20th Century Category
1st Place – Daniel Guo
2nd Place – Nuoyan Li & Timothy Oyier
3rd Place – Hannah Plaisted
Honorable Mentions – Barbara Kapusta & Michael Bonanno
Back To The Future Category
1st Place – Quenby “Mimi” Terry
Junior Star Category
Baroque Category
1st Place – William Tran
2nd Place – Rosalyn Bao
3rd Place – Ty Oyier & Celeste Bao
Classical Category
1st Place – William Tran
2nd Place – Nina Qi & Ty Oyier
3rd Place – Rosalyn Bao
Honorable Mentions – David Guo & Joanna Guo
Chopin Category
1st Place – Ty Oyier
2nd Place – William Tran & Rosalyn Bao
3rd Place – John Frix & Joanna Guo
Honorable Mentions – Luke Dong & Gracie Dong
Romantic/20th Century Category
1st Place – Nina Qi
2nd Place – Ty Oyier
3rd Place – Yuyan Hu
Honorable Mentions – Reina Park, Gracie Dong, & John Frix
Back To The Future Category
1st Place – Maggie Neuman
2nd Place – Jace Duncan
Young Musician Category
Classical Category
1st Place – Jacqueline Jiang
2nd Place – Issac Wang
3rd Place – Valentino Pinilla
Honorable Mention – Jean Skibba
Chopin Category
1st Place – Chad Bao
Romantic/20th Century Category
1st Place – Issac Wang
2nd Place – Han Lim
3rd Place – Chad Bao
Honorable Mentions – Anastasia Wade & Roy Park
Back To The Future Category
1st Place – John Lee
2nd Place – Ivan Lon
3rd Place – Roy Park
Honorable Mention – Kelsey Enders
Ensemble Competitions
Artist Ensemble
1st Place – Matthew Martin & Easton Ball
2nd Place – James & Josef Govednik, Elijah Little & Summer Eells
Junior Ensemble
1st Place – Shanna Jung & Yuyan Hu
2023 Prizewinners
Congratulations to all of the prizewinners for the 2023 Knoxville International Piano Festival and Competition! The results are as follows:
Artist Category
1st Place (Sponsored by the Nashville Steinway Piano Gallery) – Greg Hartmann
2nd Place – Shih-Man Weng
3rd Place – Kun Ding
Honorable Mentions – Tyler Ramos and Tzu-Jung Peng
Finalists – Savannah Howard, Jungmin Park, Zhisheng Wang
Senior Virtuoso Category
1st Place (Sponsored by the Nashville Steinway Piano Gallery) – Haruki Takeuchi
2nd Place – Eric Xie
3rd Place – Yuka Yang
Honorable Mentions – Daniel Guo, Jesse Hao, Bailey Henson, Masha Kochan, Elijah Little, Austin Pitcher, Mason Valentine
Junior Star Category
1st Place – Tiffany Masumoto
2nd Place – Timothy Powers
3rd Place – Ty Oyier and Rosalyn Bao
Honorable Mentions – Michael Bonanno, Abigail Goddard, Andy Gu, Baolan Ngo, Timothy Oyier, Evan Powers, Rika Shinohara
Young Musician Category
1st Place – Vincent Zhou
2nd Place – Isabella Xu
3rd Place – Nina Qi
Honorable Mentions – Jace Duncan, Daniella Frazier, Stephanie Guo, Rebecca Li, Han Lim, Maggie Neuman, Valentino Pinilla, Isaac Wang
Rising Talent Category
Superiors – Alberto Maximo Pinilla Lino and Tina Liu
Special Prize for the Best Performance of a Work by Rachmaninoff
Tianran Gao (Artist)
Jesse Hao (Senior)
Austin Pitcher (Senior)
Elliot Herring (Junior)
Special Prize for the Best Performance of a Work by an Under-Represented Composer
Jeremi Lukanus (Artist)
Haruki Takeuchi (Senior)
Andy Gu (Junior)
Maggie Neuman (Young Musician)