Second Chopin Youth Competition

November 3rd , 2001
St. Thomas University
Houston, Texas

Second Chopin Youth Competition

This event was held on November 3 and 4, 2001.

In 2001 The Second Chopin Youth Competition took place with 101 students participating and 21 teachers who prepared those contestants.

For the first time in this competition we made rules of obligatory piece and a time limit for every division.

  • Elementary: Prelude in A Major op 28 no.7
  • Junior: Prelude in e Minor op.28 no.4
  • Senior: Prelude in B-flat Major, op. 29 no.21

    In addition to the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, were the following awards:

  • Best performance of required Prelude
  • Best performance on a Mazurka
  • Best performance of a Polonaise
  • Best performance of a lesser known work

    The judges were from different musical backgrounds and countries bringing our competition to an international level. Three jurors listened all 101 young pianists.

  • Nina Drath - Poland
  • Clive Swnsbourne –Great Britain
  • Yuri Blinov –Belaruss

    Winners

    Senior Gold Amy Jiaqi
    Silver William Appleby
    Bronze Kirill Bersuker
    Katie Frank
    Benjamin Ho
    Best Prelude William Appleby
    Honorable Mention Angela Alonzo
    Joanna Chen
    Katherine Chen
    Michelle Dano
    Robert DeVet
    Aya Kurihara
    Rachel Kwan
    Janica Quach
    Leslie Rafanan
    Mark Yu


    Junior Gold Aidin Ashoori
    Aleksei Federov
    Silver Jason Hsu
    Bronze Blake Benthall
    Erica Luu
    Yowei Shaw
    Best Prelude Aaron Thomas
    Honorable Mention Janie Barchie
    James Benecasa
    Angela Chen
    Jessica Chiu
    Mark DeKraker
    Anand Habib
    Stephanie Kim
    Margarita Martirossian
    Christopher Nabzdyk
    Amber Nicholson
    Masaru Oka
    Linda Phung
    Gloria Sung
    Aaron Thomas
    Andy Toy
    Annie Wang
    Melody Wang
    Eric Hai Xi


    Elementary Gold Marie Feng
    Nathan Fu
    Silver Randall Alexa Fossi
    Kevin Ma
    Bronze T. J. La
    Divya Suneja
    Best Prelude Nathan Fu
    Honorable Mention Tonya Belosludtsev
    Anurag Pooki Gupta
    Isabel Hsu
    Giulia Moretti
    Mia Nishikawa
    Melody Quach
    Michael Zhu

    Special Awards

  • Best Mazurka: Kevin Ma and Amber Ann Nicholson
  • Best Poloniase: Aidin Ashoori and Aleksei Fedorov
  • Best Among the Youngest: Isabel Hsu