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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)

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