Music Educators Association of New Jersey

49th Annual Piano Competition Highlights
March 17, 2019

Congratulations to all the students and teachers who participated in this year’s piano competition, “Homage to Bach”. The level of playing was of the highest standard, and the concert on March 17th in the Leshowitz Recital Hall at Montclair State University was a great success.

The teachers of the first, second and third place winners are: Hyunjin Cho, Gloria Chu, Shinwen Chung, Rebecca Eng, David Iskowitz, Anna Katznelson, Mansoon Kim, Ruth Kotik, Julia Lam, Yuhui Chloris Li, Florence Liu, Beatrice Long, Aziza Khasanova Madaski, Marcia Maull, Eric Olson, Daniel Parente, Thomas Parente, Gena Raps, Youson Soheil, Stella Xu, Yuka Yanagi and Grace Yang.

Special thanks to the APC committee for all their hard work all year long: Barbara Landi Hause and Anna Katznelson -Co-Chairs, Ana Berschadsky, Rebecca Eng, Vicky Griswold, Florence Liu, Beatrice Long, Kai Pangune Kim, Youn-Hee Bang Kim, Ruth Kotik, Michelle Kuo, and Yuka Yanagi.

We are very grateful to the County College of Morris for hosting the competition in their beautiful Music Technology building, and to Montclair State University for the use of the lovely Leshowitz Recital Hall.

49TH ANNUAL PIANO COMPETITION – HOMAGE TO BACH

Teachers of First Place Winners - Hyunjin Cho, Gloria Chu, Rebecca Eng, Mansoon Kim, Julia Lam, Yuhui Chloris Li, Florence Liu, Marcia Maull, Thomas Parente, Gena Raps, Stella Xu, Yuka Yanagi

Second Place Winners - Darwin Capani, Kristie Chai, James Chen, Jocelyn Chen, Lucas Chen, Alexander Dong, Karen Du, Evan Fan, Audrey Gang, Eric Guo, Lawrence Yo-Yo Guo, Claire Jiang, Vincent Jiang, Helena Kim, Yulia Kuzniar, Geoffrey Li, Claire Liang, Terrance Lin, Joanna Liu, Jasmine Meyer, Caiden Mooney, Sophia Mu, Kristen Ngai, Renee Ngai, Patrick Sun, Athena Thai, Amy Wu, Audrey Xi, Raymond Xu, Alan Zhu, Ethan Zhang, Janie Ziemacki

Third Place Winners - Adyant Chelluka, Maxwell Chen, Sophie Cheng, Natalie Chow, Catherine Chu, Sophie Gang, Kenneth Tsan He, Jeremy Hwang, Kevin Jin, Meghan Jin, Katya Lazurenko, Welsey Liu, Katherine Luo, Sophia Mahvidi, Emily Mu, Julian Qiu, Adora Rao, Shannie Su, Yuying Wang, Jonathan Wu, Jeffery Yang, Grace Zhang, Liwen Zhou

Honorable Mention Winners - Lily Caracas, Ryan Chen, Toby Chen, Ahalya Raghavan, Preston Wang, Katherine Wu

Teachers of Second Place, Third Place and Honorable Mention Winners - Hyunjin Cho, Gloria Chu, Shinwen Chung, Rebecca Eng, David Iskowitz, Anna Katznelson, Aziza Khasanova Madaski, Mansoon Kim, Ruth Kotik, Julia Lam, Yuhui Choris Li, Florence Liu, Beatrice Long, Marcia Maull, Eric Olsen, Daniel Parente, Yousun Soheil, Stella Xu, Grace Yang

Competition Committee – Barbara Landi Hause and Anna Katznelson, Co-Chairs Ana Berschadsky, Rebecca Eng, Vicky Griswold, Florence Liu, Beatrice Long, Kai Pangune Kim, Youn-Hee Bang Kim, Ruth Kotik, Michelle Kuo, Yuka Yanagi

Judges - Elena Belli, Ming Fung Fung, Larissa Korwin, Irina Morozova, Ruth Rendleman, Claudine Robins, Jean Schneider, Otto Specht, Delana Thomsen, Stefan Young

MEA President - Nancy Modell

We are deeply grateful to the County College of Morris and Montclair State University for providing their fine facilities for the 2019 MEA Annual Piano Competition.