2015 YoungArts Winners
FINALISTS
Cinematic Arts
Ruby Drake Lowell High School | San Francisco, CA
Alexander Herz Redwood High School | Larkspur, CA
Adam McArthur Cascade High School | Everett, WA
Oliver Orr Mattituck High School | Mattituck, NY
David Saveliev Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Danielle Stolz Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA
Dance
Nathan Beech | Tap Forest Park High School | Woodbridge, VA
Jacob Clemente | Tap Columbia High School | East Greenbush, NY
Andrea Fabbri | Ballet The Harid Conservatory | Boca Raton, FL
Eddieomar Gonzalez | Modern Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Aaron Hilton | Ballet
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Hayden Hopkins | Modern Insight School of Washington | Tacoma, WA
Myles Hunter | Modern Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Nicole Ishimaru | Modern Indiana University High School | Bloomington, IN
Isabel Kaiser | Irish Step Homeschool | Saint Charles, Missouri
Sarah Lapointe | Ballet Keystone National High School | Bloomsburg, PA
Jordynn Lurie | Other North Broward Preparatory School | Coconut Creek, FL
Edward Mandell | Hip Hop Sharon High School | Sharon, MA
Matthew McLaughlin | Modern The Barrie School | Silver Spring, MD
Daniela O’Neil | Ballet Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Sarah Pippin | Modern Heritage High School | Wake Forest, NC
Anagha Prasanna | Classical Indian Union County Academy for Allied Health Sciences | Scotch Plains, NJ
Uriel Ramirez | Mexican Folkloric Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Kaleb Sims | Hip Hop Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL
Nicole Smith | Modern Del Oro High School | Loomis, CA
Autumn Steed | Ballet Downers Grove South High School | Downers Grove, IL
Jonathan Wade | Modern Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Madeline Woo | Ballet Huntington Beach High School | Huntington Beach, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Design
Daniela Alarcon Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Jessica Baldinger Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Eduardo Garcia Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Jason Ginsberg Horace Mann School | Riverdale, NY
Seanna Harris Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Maite Iribarren Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Alejandro Jimenez Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Julieta Londono Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Benjamin Naftalis St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Helmuth Rosales Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Aaron Smithson Trinity School | New York, NY
Anna Talley Atlee High School | Mechanicsville, VA
Jazz
John Michael Bradford | Trumpet New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA
Devin Daniels | Alto Alexander Hamilton High School | Los Angeles, CA
Conner Duke | Double Bass Arlington High School | Arlington, MA
Nicholas Lee | Trombone Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Jared Silverstein | Percussion Hillsborough High School | Hillsborough, NJ
Matthew Wong | Keyboard Independence High School | San Francisco, CA
Music
Sein An | Violin Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School | West Chester, PA
Sasha Bult-Ito | Piano Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Hsun Chang | Piano Henry M. Gunn High School | Palo Alto, CA
Erika Gray | Viola New Trier High School | Winnetka, IL
Oliver Herbert | Violoncello Ruth Asawa School of the Arts | San Francisco, CA
Ramakrishnan Kumaran | Flute Dehesa Charter School | Escondido, CA
Seong Hwan Lee | Classical Music Composition Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Sydney Lee | Violoncello Ramapo High School | Franklin Lakes, NJ
Geneva Lewis | Violin Homeschool | Irvine, California
Ying Li | Piano The City School | Philadelphia, PA
Charles Lilley | Saxophone DeMatha Catholic High School | Hyattsville, MD
Evelyn Mo | Piano Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA
Vaibhav Mohanty | Classical Music Composition Academic Magnet High School | North Charleston, SC
Margaret O’Leary | Bassoon Claremont High School | Claremont, CA
Chase Park | Violoncello
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Northern Valley Regional High School | Demarest, NJ
Yaegy Park | Violin Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner | Piano The Juilliard School, College Division (Senior Undergraduate) | New York, New York
Christopher Staknys | Piano Falmouth High School | Falmouth, ME
Jeremy Tai | Violoncello Saint Francis High School | Mountain View, CA
Tanner Tanyeri | Percussion Middleton High School | Middleton, WI
Athena Tsianos | Piano Glendora High School | Glendora, CA
Yibiao Wang | Flute Queens High School for the Sciences | Jamaica, NY
Angela Wee | Violin Syosset High School | Syosset, NY
Photography
Sequoia Canada New Roads School | Santa Monica, CA
Yu-Hua Golnick Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Ramona Gomez Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Michael Hansen Perpich Center for Arts Education | Golden Valley, MN
Maxwell Hart Perpich Center for Arts Education | Golden Valley, MN
Amanda Masis City Of Angels School | Los Angeles, CA
Zinnia Moreno El Camino Real High School | Woodland Hills, CA
Dakotah Murphree Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Gabriella Rothbart Archer School for Girls | Los Angeles, CA
Isabel Strachan The Key School | Annapolis, MD
Alexander Zhang Central Magnet School | Little Rock, AR
Theater
Ashley Arnold | Musical Theater Idyllwild Arts Academy | Idyllwild, CA
Griffin Binnicker | Musical Theater South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Ciaran Bowling | Musical Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Dara Brown | Musical Theater Chicago High School for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Wesley Goodrich | Spoken Theater Edward R. Murrow High School | Brooklyn, NY
Jasper Keen | Spoken Theater New Mexico School for the Arts | Santa Fe, NM
Matthew Kemp | Musical Theater Fairport High School | Fairport, NY
Ashley Long | Spoken Theater The Woodlands High School | The Woodlands, TX
Grace Martini | Musical Theater New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Noah McGill | Spoken Theater South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Erin Metz | Musical Theater Martin Luther King High School | Riverside, CA
Caroline Mixon | Musical Theater Saint Francis High School | Sacramento, CA
Raven Moore | Musical Theater High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Amir Nickell | Spoken Theater
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS William R. Boone High School | Orlando, FL
Olamide Sholotan | Musical Theater High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Javier Spivey | Musical Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Sean Stack | Musical Theater New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Alexander Stone | Musical Theater McLean High School | Mclean, VA
Talia Suskauer | Musical Theater Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Dominique Thorne | Spoken Theater Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY
Anna Tobin | Musical Theater St. Petersburg High School International Baccalaureate Program | St. Petersburg, FL
Visual Arts
Mikayla Brown Whitney M. Young Magnet High School | Chicago, IL
Jennifer Choi Palos Verdes High School | Palos Verdes Est, CA
Camille Clair Culver City High School | Culver City, CA
Catrina Crawford Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Chrisonia DeCosta Henry Snyder High School | Jersey City, NJ
Cole Dininno Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Mark Fleuridor Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Catalina Gonzalez Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Su Wan Kim Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Jackson McGrath Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Hannah Mills Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Seyedalimohammad Illya Mousavijad Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Charles Olson St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Luz Orozco New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Anais Perez Doral Performing Arts & Entertainment Academy | Doral, FL
Melissa Posner Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Isabella Poulos Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI
Zachary Rapaport Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Moises Salazar Chicago High School for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Celia Shaheen Plano West High School | Plano, TX
George Spica Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Morgan Strahorn Stivers School for the Arts | Dayton, OH
Paloma Valencia Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Mary Wichmann New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Ryan Yale Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Voice
Hansini Bhasker | Soprano
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Greenwich High School | Greenwich, CT
Victoria Clara Canal Tinius | Singer/Songwriter International School of Berne | Gumligen Bern,
Matthew Chang | Baritone Middlesex School | Concord, MA
Darynn Dean | Jazz Voice Mira Costa High School | Manhattan Beach, CA
Lydia Graham | Soprano Danville High School | Danville, KY
Khady Gueye | Mezzo Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Jonah Hoskins | Tenor Karl G. Maeser Preparatory Academy | Lindon, UT
Kate Huizinga | Popular Voice Mona Shores High School | Muskegon, MI
Ryan Hurley | Tenor Berkley High School | Berkley, MI
Maurice Johnson | Popular Voice Long Island High School for the Arts | Syosset, NY
Alice Kim | Singer/Songwriter Corning-Painted Post High School | Corning, NY
Anh Le | Singer/Songwriter West High School | Madison, WI
Brittany Loynaz | Popular Voice Somerset Academy High School | Pembroke Pines, FL
Alyssa McDoom | Jazz Voice Cypress Bay High School | Weston, FL
John Erick Joshua Millanes | Popular Voice Maplewood Academy | Hutchinson, MN
Jessica Niles | Soprano West Potomac High School | Alexandria, VA
Alecsys Proctor-Turner | Popular Voice New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Brianna Ray | Singer/Songwriter Timpanogos High School | Orem, UT
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Joshua Reinier | Jazz Voice Nueva Upper School | San Mateo, California
Tyler Resto | Baritone High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Madison Russell | Jazz Voice Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Cabria Scott | Jazz Voice High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Quinn Sullivan | Singer/Songwriter Homeschool | New Bedford, Massachusetts
Ava Suppelsa | Singer/Songwriter Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Writing
Bindu Bansinath | Short Story Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart | Princeton, NJ
Maya Bernstein | Creative Non-Fiction Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Walker Caplan | Short Story Lakeside School | Seattle, WA
E Yeon Chang | Poetry The Hotchkiss School | Lakeville, CT
Carissa Chen | Poetry Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH
Ashanti Davis | Short Story Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Noah Dversdall | Poetry Dayton Regional STEM School | Kettering, OH
Julia Falkner | Poetry Monarch High School | Louisville, CO
Eli Guidry | Short Story Perry High School | Perry, GA
Claudia Isabel Heymach | Short Story High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Nancy Huang | Short Story
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS International Academy | Bloomfield Hills, MI
Hannah Knowles | Short Story Castilleja School | Palo Alto, CA
Adina Lasser | Creative Non-Fiction Fine Arts Center | Greenville, SC
Antonia Matias-Bell | Poetry Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Erin Aaron Orbey | Creative Non-Fiction Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | Cambridge, MA
Maia Rosenfeld | Short Story Winchester Thurston School | Pittsburgh, PA
Shakthi Shrima | Poetry Homeschool | Austin, Texas
Audrey Spensley | Poetry Avon Lake High School | Avon Lake, OH
Talin Tahajian | Poetry Belmont High School | Belmont, MA
Oriana Tang | Poetry Livingston High School | Livingston, NJ
Oriana Tang | Short Story Livingston High School | Livingston, NJ
Adriane Tharp | Creative Non-Fiction Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
Greta Wilensky | Short Story Lowell High School | Lowell, MA
Kai Williams | Short Story The Dalton School | New York, NY
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Cinematic Arts
Coleman Andersen Ballard High School | Seattle, WA
Alex Brisker Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Miles Carey Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Max Cho Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA
Clio Gevirtz Lick-Wilmerding High School | San Francisco, CA
Kathryn McCarthy Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Zachary Oschin Viewpoint School | Calabasas, CA
Nicolas Ramey New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA
Abigail Sacks Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Eli Stern Brentwood School | Los Angeles, CA
Carlos Tejera Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Samuel Wickert Fine Arts Center | Greenville, SC
Justin Wolman Palisades Charter High School | Pacific Palisade, CA
Dance
Patrick Blain | Modern Etobicoke School of the Arts | Toronto, ON
Alexandra Burman | Ballet Florida Virtual School | Orlando, FL
Brandon Chang | Modern Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Jonah Delgado | Modern Glenbard South High School | Glen Ellyn, IL
Joshua Horton | Hip Hop Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Andrew Mulet | Choreography
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Florida Virtual School | Orlando, FL
Alonso Olvera-Gonzalez | Ballet Homeschool | Monte Nido, California
Ranjani Parthasarathy | Classical Indian Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA
Vivek Ramanan | Classical Indian Leland High School | San Jose, CA
Alexis Rosenstrauch | Tap Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Devin Ruth | Tap Ramapo High School | Franklin Lakes, NJ
Jared Sprague | Tap Highland High School | Highland, NY
Jakob Tribus | Modern Sunlake High School | Land O Lakes, FL
Tess Voelker | Modern Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Natick, MA
Genevieve Waldorf | Ballet El Camino Real High School | Woodland Hills, CA
Design
Alana Hayes Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI
Grace Lee Princeton High School | Princeton, NJ
Harrison Lin St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Nya Walker Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Jazz
Andrew Andron | Keyboard Garden City High School | Garden City, NY
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Yesseh Furaha-Ali | Tenor Upper Darby High School | Drexel Hill, PA
Anthony Hervey | Trumpet Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL
Tyson Jackson | Percussion Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Kevin Jiang | Trombone Newark Academy | Livingston, NJ
Alexander Laurenzi | Alto Mountain Lakes High School | Mountain Lakes, NJ
Max Lesser | Tenor Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Cameron MacIntosh | Percussion Columbia High School | Maplewood, NJ
Matthew Malanowski | Keyboard Farmingdale High School | Farmingdale, NY
Nathan Pence | Double Bass Bishop DuBourg High School | St Louis, MO
James Robertson | Alto Benjamin Mays High School | Atlanta, GA
Franchesca Romero | Keyboard New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Samuel Scheeres | Keyboard Fairview High School | Boulder, CO
Caleb Smith | Trombone Shaker Heights High School | Shaker Heights, OH
Justin Trout | Alto South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Immanuel Wilkins | Alto Upper Darby High School | Drexel Hill, PA
Ayinde Williams | Keyboard Open High School | Richmond, VA
Alex Yuwen | Alto Hamilton High School | Chandler, AZ
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Music
Lucian Avalon | Oboe Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Nadia Azzi | Piano Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY
Yuki Beppu | Violin Lexington High School | Lexington, MA
Jeremiah Blacklow | Violin Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | Cambridge, MA
Anna Boonyanit | Piano Menlo School | Atherton, CA
Aiyana Braun | Classical Music Composition Haverford High School | Havertown, PA
Joseph Bricker | Percussion Evanston Township High School | Evanston, IL
Emma Burge | Violin Sycamore High School | Cincinnati, OH
Tiffany Chang | Violin Corona del Sol High School | Tempe, AZ
Ann Cho | Violin Westlake High School | Austin, TX
Hannah Criswell | Flute Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Michael Davidman | Piano Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Morgan Davison | Bassoon Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Scott Feiner | Classical Music Composition Roslyn High School | Roslyn Heights, NY
Yi Chen Feng | Piano Laurel Springs Academy | Ojai, CA
Alison Fierst | Flute Point Pleasant Borough High School | Point Pleasant, NJ
Omar Gaidarov | Flute Torrey Pines High School | San Diego, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Phoebe Gardner | Violin Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Daniel Giebisch | Violoncello Amity Regional High School | Woodbridge, CT
James Gulielmetti | Classical Music Composition The Calhoun School | New York, NY
Kelly Haines | Bassoon Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Sara Han | Clarinet Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Katherine Holmes | Classical Guitar Homeschool | Phenix City, Alabama
Franklin Jia | Clarinet Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science | Denton, TX
Tiffany Jiang | Flute Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science | Denton, TX
Henry Johnston | Classical Guitar Central Magnet School | Saint Paul, MN
Brian Junttila | Classical Music Composition Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA
Daniel Kaler | Violoncello New Trier High School | Winnetka, IL
Izak Kertznus | Flute Dr. Michael M. Krop High School | Miami, FL
Daniel Kim | Violin Strath Haven High School | Wallingford, PA
Jennifer Kim | Classical Guitar Cypress High School | Cypress, CA
Rachel Koh | Violoncello Redlands East Valley High School | Redlands, CA
Shannon Kollasch | Violin Neuqua Valley High School | Naperville, IL
Ruta Kuzmickas | Piano Clackamas Web Academy | Clackamas, OR
Charles Yoonsuh Lee | Violin Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Minku Lee | Violoncello Henry M. Gunn High School | Palo Alto, CA
Natalie Lee | Violin Okemos High School | Okemos, MI
John Li | Violin Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School | Saint Louis, MO
TianYi Li | Piano Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Esther Liao | Piano Bellaire Senior High School | Bellaire, TX
Sean Lim | Violin McLean High School | Mclean, VA
Matthew Liu | Classical Music Composition Marlborough School | Marlboro, NJ
Miranda Liu | Violin Homeschool | Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Kako Miura | Violin Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Alissa Mori | Violin Fieldston School | Bronx, NY
Isabella Palacpac | Violoncello Wilton High School | Wilton, CT
Michael Parsons | Classical Music Composition Watchung Hills Regional High School | Warren, NJ
Apoorva Rangan | Flute The Harker School | San Jose, CA
Jillian Reed | Flute Montpelier High School | Montpelier, VT
Christopher Rogers-Beadle | Viola Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Natick, MA
Daniel Rudin | Classical Music Composition Half Hollow Hills High School West | Dix Hills, NY
Adam Sadberry | Flute Montgomery High School | Montgomery, TX
Carolyn Semes | Violin Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School | West Chester, PA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Emily Shehi | Violin Olathe East High School | Olathe, KS
Sara Simpson | Flute Patrick Henry High School | San Diego, CA
Phillip Solomon | Clarinet Hendrick Hudson High School | Montrose, NY
David Steinhardt | Classical Guitar Pittsford Mendon High School | Pittsford, NY
Leo Taylor | Percussion Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Mark Trotter | French Horn Keswick Christian School | St Petersburg, FL
Aliya Ultan | Classical Music Composition Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Taiga Ultan | Flute Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Nathan Walhout | Violoncello Wheaton North High School | Wheaton, IL
Alexander Wang | Violin Union County Magnet High School | Scotch Plains, NJ
Austin Wang | Violin Townsend Harris High School | Flushing, NY
Katherine Woo | Violin Riverside High School | Greer, SC
Oliver Xu | Percussion Winston Churchill High School | Livonia, MI
Alexander Yakub | Classical Music Composition Amherst Regional High School | Amherst, MA
Adria Ye | Piano Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Grace Yin | Violin Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH
Seho Young | Piano Phillips Academy | Andover, MA
Brian Zhao | Violoncello Plano West High School | Plano, TX
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Emily Zheng | Flute Arcadia High School | Arcadia, CA
Photography
Benjamin Bear Auburn High School | Rockford, IL
Micaela Beigel Urban Academy Laboratory High School | New York, NY
Tayla Ederesinghe Wauwatosa West High School | Wauwatosa, WI
Theater
Nicholas Aquilino | Musical Theater American Heritage-Boca/Delray | Delray Beach, FL
Bryce Baxter | Musical Theater Stafford Senior High School | Falmouth, VA
Kalina Bland | Musical Theater Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD
Isis Bruno | Musical Theater The Masters School | Dobbs Ferry, NY
Francesca Curry-Edwards | Musical Theater Kentwood High School | Covington, WA
Casey Edwards | Spoken Theater Chicago High School for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Jonathan Fleites | Musical Theater New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Lauryn Hobbs | Musical Theater Shaker Heights High School | Shaker Heights, OH
Sophie Hoyt | Spoken Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Thaddeus Kaszuba-Dias | Musical Theater Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Maya Lagerstam | Musical Theater Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Conlan Ledwith | Musical Theater eAchieve Academy Wisconsin | Waukesha, WI
Katherine Marshall | Musical Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Gregory McKitt | Spoken Theater Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
Sage Melcher | Musical Theater Allendale Columbia School | Rochester, NY
McClain Miles | Musical Theater University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC
Madeline Milligan | Spoken Theater Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Alyxaundrea Munson | Musical Theater Modesto High School | Modesto, CA
Amrita Newton | Spoken Theater Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Alison Pogorelc | Musical Theater Whitefish Bay High School | Whitefish Bay, WI
Nicholas Polonio | Spoken Theater Green Hope High School | Cary, NC
Grayson Samuels | Musical Theater Gibbs Senior High School | St. Petersburg, FL
Michaela Tramuta | Musical Theater Fredonia High School | Fredonia, NY
Charlotte Williams | Musical Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Kayce Wilson | Spoken Theater Duke Ellington School of the Arts | Washington, DC
Caitlin Witty | Musical Theater Wilton High School | Wilton, CT
Carson Wright | Spoken Theater Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Visual Arts
Maya Bjornson
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts | Philadelphia, PA
Madison Brownson Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Catherine Buffington Starkville High School | Starkville, MS
Catherine Chen Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Robert Dietz Nicolet High School | Glendale, WI
Avril Falgout Texas Academy of Leadership in the Humanities | Beaumont, TX
Nathalie Francis Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Juan Garcia New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Meher Gill Woodward Academy | College Park, GA
Attlesha Harry New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Wenlu He Cherry Hill High School East | Cherry Hill, NJ
Ji Eun Jeong Palos Verdes Peninsula High School | Rolling Hls Ests, CA
David Kaminsky Briarcliff High School | Briarcliff Manor, NY
Sun Mi Kim Arnold O. Beckman High School | Irvine, CA
Kenneth Korbar Ballard High School | Louisville, KY
Junghyun Lee Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Sebastian Niculescu Hicksville High School | Hicksville, NY
Nicholas Raley Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS David Saveliev Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Danielle Schmidt Hereford High School | Parkton, MD
Benjamin Sequeira New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Lisa Su Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Pearl Thompson Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies | Los Angeles, CA
Can Wen Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Jennifer Xiao University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC
Voice
Tori Adams | Soprano Edina High School | Edina, MN
Katherine Ahmann | Soprano Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Charles Allen | Singer/Songwriter Veritas Preparatory Academy | Richmond, VA
Jerilyne Almonte | Popular Voice Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Tehillah Alphonso | Popular Voice Marian High School | Omaha, NE
Isobel Anthony | Soprano Malibu High School | Malibu, CA
George B. Perry | Tenor Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School | Bethesda, MD
Georgia Belmont | Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Abigail Berry | Jazz Voice Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Abigail Berry | Popular Voice
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Grace Bowland | Popular Voice Fairview High School | Boulder, CO
Krystal Bowman | Popular Voice Edward R. Murrow High School | Brooklyn, NY
Laura Brickle | Soprano South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Bryanna Brown | Popular Voice Dominican Academy | New York, NY
Maya Carney | Jazz Voice Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Caitlin Daniels | Soprano Richland Collegiate High School (RCHS) | Dallas, TX
Sydney Dardis | Soprano Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Madison Douglas | Singer/Songwriter Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
William Fielding | Baritone Smithfield High School | Smithfield, VA
Chloe Flynt | Singer/Songwriter Calvary Christian High School | Clearwater, FL
Daphne Gampel | Singer/Songwriter Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Justine Garcia | Jazz Voice New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Maria Giovanetti | Soprano Lakewood High School | Lakewood, CO
Denná Good-Mojab | Soprano Estacada Early College | Estacada, OR
Emily Hall | Contralto Nordhoff High School | Ojai, CA
Kamryn Harris | Popular Voice San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts | San Diego, CA
Kalif Jones | Tenor Walt Whitman High School | Huntington Sta, NY
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Grace Jong | Mezzo Soprano Palos Verdes High School | Palos Verdes Est, CA
Grace Kaiser | Popular Voice Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Nicole Koh | Soprano Ruth Asawa School of the Arts | San Francisco, CA
Maria Kolomiets | Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Lydia Li | Soprano Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Natick, MA
Chaste Martin | Popular Voice Musselman High School | Inwood, WV
Jeannie Miller | Soprano Homeschool | Hudson Oaks, Texas
Samyra Miller | Popular Voice Lusher Charter School | New Orleans, LA
Karl Munroe | Popular Voice Yarmouth High School | Yarmouth, ME
Iris Murphy | Singer/Songwriter Bio-Med Science Academy | Rootstown, OH
Jordin rae Nicolae | Popular Voice Conard High School | West Hartford, CT
Claire Nordstrom | Singer/Songwriter Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA
Isabel Ostroff | Jazz Voice The Branson School | Ross, CA
Pascal Pahl | Jazz Voice Elk Grove High School | Elk Grove Villag, IL
Isabella Ramos | Popular Voice Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Edmond Rodriguez | Popular Voice Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Janysa Rodriguez | Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
James Rootring | Bass Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy | Cincinnati, OH
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Nia Savoy | Jazz Voice Caddo Parish Magnet High School | Shreveport, LA
Francis Sto.Domingo | Popular Voice Trinity Collegiate School | Darlington, SC
Vinay Thomas | Baritone Plano East High School | Plano, TX
Caroline Vermillion | Popular Voice Christ Church Episcopal School | Greenville, SC
Matthew Wang | Singer/Songwriter Lake Zurich Senior High School | Lake Zurich, IL
Robert Washington, III | Jazz Voice John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School | Augusta, GA
Joshua Westman | Tenor Abilene High School | Abilene, TX
Imani Williams | Jazz Voice Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Jiyoon Yooun | Soprano William A. Shine Great Neck South High School | Great Neck, NY
Writing
Giselle Abreu | Short Story Weaver Academy for Performing & Visual Arts and Advanced Technology | Greensboro, NC
Ashia Ajani | Poetry East High School | Denver, CO
Nicole Andreson | Short Story ACES Educational Center For The Arts | New Haven, CT
Brandon Burnett | Play or Script for Film or Video Jenks High School | Jenks, OK
Milo Davidson | Short Story Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Griffin Blue Fay | Poetry Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Cu Fleshman | Short Story South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Katherine Frain | Poetry
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Wando High School | Mount Pleasant, SC
Elizabeth Frakes | Play or Script for Film or Video Viewpoint School | Calabasas, CA
Kathleen Herbst | Creative Non-Fiction South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Melissa Ho | Poetry Marriotts Ridge High School | Marriottsville, MD
Demitri Makeig | Play or Script for Film or Video Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Veronica Marks | Creative Non-Fiction Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Molly McDaniel | Poetry Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Eliana Pipes | Play or Script for Film or Video Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Rowan Procter | Short Story Mayfield Senior School | Pasadena, CA
Aviva Rabin-Court | Poetry Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Sindhu Ravuri | Creative Non-Fiction The Harker School | San Jose, CA
Christell Roach | Poetry Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Summer Standiford | Creative Non-Fiction South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Catherine Valdez | Poetry Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
MERIT
Cinematic Arts
Cole Borgstadt Fayetteville High School | Fayetteville, AR
Aidan Callahan
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Liam Campbell Upper Arlington High School | Upper Arlington, OH
Maxwell Galassi Newtown High School | Sandy Hook, CT
Leo Gallagher Packer Collegiate Institute | Brooklyn, NY
Takai Ginwright Oakland School for the Arts | Oakland, CA
LuisEnrique Hernandez Gonzalez Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Ashton Herrild Liberty High School | Renton, WA
Brady Holcomb Jamestown High School | Williamsburg, VA
Max Johnson Falls Church High School | Falls Church, VA
Su Wan Kim Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Amanda Morrison St. Paul’s School | Concord, NH
Alice Petrosova Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Henry Quilici Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA
Sarit Sandler Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL
James Tralie Upper Dublin High School | Ft Washington, PA
Sara Truscott Seattle Academy | Seattle, WA
Anna May Tubbs Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Satya Varghese Mac Perpich Center for Arts Education | Golden Valley, MN
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Timothy Vaughn Mary McDowell Friends School | Brooklyn, NY
Christopher Vega Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Dance
Alyssa Allen | Modern Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Rio Anderson | Ballet Ruth Asawa School of the Arts | San Francisco, CA
Amanda Davis | Jazz Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Zachary Downer | Jazz Keystone National High School | Bloomsburg, PA
Delilah Gamson Levy | Choreography Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Kaylee Grippando | Ballet Keystone National High School | Bloomsburg, PA
Darius Hickman | Modern Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Marcel Mejia | Hip Hop New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Daniela O’Neil | Modern Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Maria Paredes | Ballet Sierra Canyon School | Chatsworth, CA
Evan Rapaport | Modern New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Omar Rivera | Choreography Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Omar Rivera | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Brianna Rodriguez | Jazz Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Jannah Schwarz | Jazz
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Hayden Slaff | Ballet The Harid Conservatory | Boca Raton, FL
Joseph Socci | Tap Masuk High School | Monroe, CT
Meera Srinivasan | Classical Indian Interlake High School | Bellevue, WA
Kaylin Sturtevant | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Gianna Theodore | Modern Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Jordan Willis | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Brittany Woo | Ballet Connecting Waters Charter School | Waterford, CA
Matthew Woodcock-Livingston | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Design
Valerie Franco Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Naomi Johnson Nova High School | Davie, FL
EliseAnne Koskelo Los Alamos High School | Los Alamos, NM
Ashley Lee Greenhill School | Addison, TX
Isadora Milanez Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Leah Nasgowitz Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI
Saya Nassyr Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Jazz
Nils Aardahl | Double Bass Bismarck High School | Bismarck, ND
Evan Abounassar | Trumpet Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Abdulrahman Amer | Trombone Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Kyle Benford | Percussion Miami Beach Senior High School | Miami Beach, FL
Rolandson Davies | Double Bass DCPS/MAPCS Alternative High School | Washington, DC
Cole Davis | Double Bass Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Jamael Dean | Keyboard Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Anton Derevyanko | Tenor Medfield High School | Medfield, MA
Nicholas Dunston | Composition Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Mario Fabrizio | Percussion Seton Hall Preparatory School | West Orange, NJ
Christopher Fishman | Keyboard Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Ricardo Guerra | Percussion New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Hersh Gupta | Alto Lexington High School | Lexington, MA
Lucas Hahn | Keyboard Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School | Santa Cruz, CA
Logan Heine | Alto Inglemoor High School | Kenmore, WA
Cristian Hernandez | Double Bass New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Kameron Johnson | Keyboard Detroit Country Day School | Beverly Hills, MI
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT John Keuch | Tenor Las Vegas Academy of the Arts | Las Vegas, NV
Eli Koskoff | Guitar Staples High School | Westport, CT
Ian McGimpsey | Guitar Hudson High School | Hudson, OH
Luca Mendoza | Keyboard Crossroads School | Santa Monica, CA
Jeffery Miller | Trombone New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA
Timothy Murphy | Tenor Montclair High School | Montclair, NJ
Eric Nakanishi | Alto Northgate High School | Walnut Creek, CA
John Otten | Trumpet Roosevelt High School | Seattle, WA
Joey Pearlman | Double Bass East High School | Denver, CO
Sebastian Rios | Double Bass Miami Beach Senior High School | Miami Beach, FL
Scott Roberts | Composition Canyon Crest Academy | San Diego, CA
Luca Rodoni | Trumpet Park City High School | Park City, UT
Will Sach | Double Bass Mamaroneck High School | Mamaroneck, NY
Sam Schwall | Trumpet Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Matthew Sewell | Guitar Ladue Horton Watkins High School | Saint Louis, MO
Aaron Shaw | Tenor Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Emmett Sher | Guitar Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Alexander Smith | Percussion Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Victor Valdes | Percussion New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Matthew Wong | Composition Independence High School | San Francisco, CA
Benjamin Woodard | Percussion South Hadley High School | South Hadley, MA
Music
Carlos Aguilar | Flute San Diego Virtual School | Chula Vista, CA
Emily Aiken | Percussion Henry M. Gunn High School | Palo Alto, CA
Nicholas Arredondo | Contrabass Vancouver School of Arts and Academics | Vancouver, WA
Tyler Atkins | Classical Music Composition High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Noah Beattie-Moss | Classical Music Composition State College Area High School | State College, PA
Eleanor Bragg | Classical Music Composition Stanford University Online High School | Stanford, CA
Brian Brown | Classical Music Composition Harrison School of the Arts | Lakeland, FL
Chandler Brown | Percussion South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Nicholas Brown | Violin Homeschool | Gurnee, Illinois
Emma Cardon | Classical Music Composition Logan High School | Logan, UT
Marlon Caro | Classical Music Composition Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Brian Chen | Piano Oxford Academy | Cypress, CA
Chung Hon Cheng | Classical Music Composition William P. Clements High School | Sugar Land, TX
Solomon Choi | Violoncello
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT John Glenn High School | Elwood, NY
Deanna Cirielli | Harp The Cambridge School of Weston | Weston, MA
Christopher Colby | Trombone Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Anthony Coniglio | Piano Homeschool | Davie, Florida
Richard Covell | Classical Music Composition William T. Dwyer High School | Palm Beach Gdns, FL
Noah Diggs | Classical Music Composition Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts | Bethlehem, PA
Ryan Everson | French Horn Coronado High School | Henderson, NV
Julian Fueyo | Classical Music Composition Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Christopher Gao | Violoncello Adlai E. Stevenson High School | Lincolnshire, IL
Brian Ge | Piano Stuyvesant High School | New York, NY
David Geng | Piano West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South | West Windsor, NJ
Miriam Gerber | Violin Jewish High School of Connecticut | Woodbridge, CT
Elbert Gong | Piano Lawrenceville School | Lawrenceville, NJ
Jeremy Hassell | Piano Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Isaiah Hastings | Classical Music Composition Olathe East High School | Olathe, KS
Rachel Hawley | Classical Music Composition The Rivers School | Weston, MA
Cameron Hejna | Classical Music Composition Nichols School | Buffalo, NY
Andrew Herring | Classical Music Composition Central Dauphin High School | Harrisburg, PA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Serena Hsu | Viola Dublin Jerome High School | Dublin, OH
Sharon Hurvitz | Classical Music Composition Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Irene Jeong | Violoncello Henry M. Gunn High School | Palo Alto, CA
Alison Jin | Piano Hawken School | Gates Mills, OH
Alyssa Katahara | Harp Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Catherine Kim | Violoncello Henry M. Gunn High School | Palo Alto, CA
Noah Krauss | Violoncello The Calhoun School | New York, NY
Ashwin Krishna | Classical Guitar Los Altos High School | Los Altos, CA
Jung Yoon Grace Ann Lee | Classical Music Composition Williamsville East High School | East Amherst, NY
Megan Lee | Piano Hudson High School | Hudson, OH
Monet Lee | Violin Adlai E. Stevenson High School | Lincolnshire, IL
Sophia Lee | Harp North Allegheny Senior High School | Wexford, PA
Max Lesser | Classical Music Composition Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Jason Lewis | Classical Guitar University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC
Eric Lin | Piano Corona del Sol High School | Tempe, AZ
Alyssa Mena | Flute New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Qingxi Meng | Piano Professional Children’s School | New York, NY
Logan Nelson | Classical Music Composition Wichita East High School | Wichita, KS
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT David Nie | Piano William P. Clements High School | Sugar Land, TX
Jasmine Pai | Violoncello Academy for Visual and Performing Arts | Hackensack, NJ
Faith Pak | Viola Hunter College High School | New York, NY
Didi Park | Violoncello Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA
Soyeong Park | Violin West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North | Plainsboro, NJ
Maria Parrini | Piano Fine Arts Center | Greenville, SC
Timothy Parsons | Classical Music Composition Southfield Christian School | Southfield, MI
Elisabeth Pesavento | French Horn Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Nina Pitts | Violoncello High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
John Peter Redmond | Classical Music Composition Homeschool | Yonkers, New York
Grant Riew | Violoncello John Burroughs High School | Saint Louis, MO
Connor Rowe | Trombone Cabrillo High School | Lompoc, CA
Sonia Ruiz | Flute Leland High School | San Jose, CA
Mason Sangster | Clarinet Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Jessica Shand | Flute Discovery Canyon Campus High School | Colorado Springs, CO
Ila Shon | Violoncello San Francisco University High School | San Francisco, CA
Hanson Tam | Piano Menlo School | Atherton, CA
Theodore Teichman | Classical Music Composition Redlands High School | Redlands, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Rebecca Tutunick | Flute Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School | Parkland, FL
Jose Veliz | Classical Music Composition Cypress Bay High School | Weston, FL
Aislinn Walters | Saxophone Hays High School | Hays, KS
Benjamin Wenzelberg | Classical Music Composition Tenafly High School | Tenafly, NJ
Clayton Williams | Oboe Allen High School | Allen, TX
Su Yang | Flute Mount Sinai High School | Mount Sinai, NY
Di Yue | Trumpet Wissahickon High School | Ambler, PA
Kevin Zhang | Piano Montgomery Blair High School | Silver Spring, MD
Timothy Zhou | Piano Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy | Aurora, IL
Alice Zhu | Piano Lynbrook High School | San Jose, CA
Gabriel Ziaukas | Classical Music Composition Santa Monica High School | Santa Monica, CA
Photography
Karalyn Ahmanson Marlborough School | Los Angeles, CA
Zola Anderson Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Belden Carlson Berkeley High School | Berkeley, CA
Austin Cullen Cypress Ranch High School | Cypress, TX
Claudia D’Auria Nichols School | Buffalo, NY
Tennessy Elledge
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Santa Rosa High School | Santa Rosa, CA
Tessa Gomes Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Haley Hasen Woodward Academy | College Park, GA
Olivia Hoffman The Winchendon School | Winchendon, MA
Brendan James Newark Academy | Livingston, NJ
Brian Jordan Tracy High School | Tracy, CA
Heeyun Kim Westtown School | West Chester, PA
Cindy Liu The Harker School | San Jose, CA
Adam Merchant St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Tara Murphy Vestal High School | Vestal, NY
Alexandra “Lexi” Pline Annapolis High School | Annapolis, MD
Allison Schukis Arts & Communication Magnet Academy | Beaverton, OR
Mason Smith St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Samuel Swanson Christian Brothers High School | Sacramento, CA
Sara Truscott Seattle Academy | Seattle, WA
Raina Wellman Academy for Technology and the Classics | Santa Fe, NM
Taiga Yamamoto Honolulu Waldorf School | Honolulu, HI
Theater
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Beckett Azevedo | Musical Theater Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Natick, MA
Logan Bruner | Spoken Theater Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY
Keenan Buckley | Musical Theater Summit High School | Summit, NJ
Philip Bucknor | Spoken Theater Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Melissa Campbell | Musical Theater Wyoming High School | Cincinnati, OH
Spencer Croy | Musical Theater Harrison School of the Arts | Lakeland, FL
Hollis Dohr | Musical Theater Archer School for Girls | Los Angeles, CA
Jonah Gould | Spoken Theater Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Holly Hinchliffe | Musical Theater Portland High School | Portland, ME
Jade Jackson | Spoken Theater High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Conor Jordan | Musical Theater Lake Zurich Senior High School | Lake Zurich, IL
Nicholas Kirby | Musical Theater Stanton College Prep | Jacksonville, Florida
Peter Klein | Musical Theater East Brunswick High School | East Brunswick, NJ
Emma Lenderman | Musical Theater Asheville High School | Asheville, NC
Josh Lerner | Spoken Theater American Heritage-Boca/Delray | Delray Beach, FL
Wayne Mackins | Spoken Theater Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Marina Magnelli | Musical Theater Wheaton North High School | Wheaton, IL
Adriana Medina | Musical Theater New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Khandis Merritt | Spoken Theater New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Christian Muller | Musical Theater University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC
Anya Olsen | Musical Theater Needham High School | Needham, MA
Griffen Poore | Spoken Theater South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Maiah Rop | Spoken Theater Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Adriana Scamardi | Musical Theater High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Daniel Teixeira | Musical Theater Tring Park School for the Performing Arts | Tring, Hertfordshire
Amanda Yuan | Musical Theater River Hill High School | Clarksville, MD
Mason Zaroff | Musical Theater Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY
Visual Arts
Alyssa Ackerman Waukesha North High School | Waukesha, WI
Stephanie Aguayo Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Sophia Anthony Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Phaedra Beauchamp Henrico High School | Richmond, VA
Madison Bloch Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Khadine Caines New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Wen chien Chang University High School | Irvine, CA
Zhuoyi Chen
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Andy Clark Albert Einstein High School | Kensington, MD
Malcolm Colvin Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD
Sydney Connor Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Isabella Correa New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Natalie DeMenthon River Hill High School | Clarksville, MD
Stephanie Ding Sharron Art Center | South Brunswick, New Jersey
Danielle Dinstman Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Brittany Duffy Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL
Rachel Elfezouaty Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Ann-Marie Christin Engelberth James Madison High School | San Antonio, TX
Alice Fang J.P. Stevens High School | Edison, NJ
Daisy Faragher Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Valerie Franco Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
George Gibbs, III Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL
Nina Gregg Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School | Parkland, FL
YeJin Han Parkside High School | Salisbury, MD
Laura Harris Green River High School | Green River, WY
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Zachary Houillion St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Veronika Krasavina Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Nora Kubiaczyk Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI
Eunyoung Lee Lexington High School | Lexington, MA
James Lee Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School | Fairfax, VA
Kaleb Lucas Jefferson High School | Lafayette, IN
Derek Luu Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Ingrid Matison Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Robert Meadows St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX
Sofia Michaelides High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Margaret Mickelsen Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Madeleine Mikna Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI
Fabiola Millan New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Daniel Montenegro Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Kayla Montes de Oca Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Olivia Mulder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX
Dakotah Murphree Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
Sarah Nicita Francis W. Parker School | San Diego, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Tirza Ochrach-Konradi Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Terri Ogwulumba Arlington High School | Lagrangeville, NY
Anela Oh Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Byron Otis Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Cheyenne Otocki Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Meredith Padgett Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Sophia Padgett-Perez Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Duairak Padungvichean Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Doyun Park Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Nadia Peppler Wauwatosa West High School | Wauwatosa, WI
Lauren Posner Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Jolie Rambin Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
MacKenzie Rattray Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Jeremy Roell Jefferson High School | Jefferson, GA
Mary Safy Stuyvesant High School | New York, NY
Andres Salamanca Chicago Academy for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Sydney Shreve Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Carys Snyder Starkville High School | Starkville, MS
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Sara Sobieraj Appomattox Regional Goveners School for the Arts and Technology | Petersburg, VA
David Stapleton Calvert Hall College High School | Baltimore, MD
Valentina Torres Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Ryan Treadwell Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Brenna Vaughn Fleming Island High School | Orange Park, FL
Kathleen Voight Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL
Tammy Wei West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North | Plainsboro, NJ
Lia Weinman New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Sabrina Wen Chicago Academy for the Arts | Chicago, IL
Jazmin Williams Mt. Pleasant High School | Mt Pleasant, NC
Devon Wolfe Jefferson High School | Lafayette, IN
Lauren Woods Hidden Valley High School | Roanoke, VA
Constance Ye Westlake High School | Westlake Village, CA
Rachel Zhang State College Area High School | State College, PA
Voice
Carolyn Anderson | Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Genesis Barrios | Popular Voice Coral Reef Senior High School | Miami, FL
Isabel Bellino | Soprano
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Julian Carey | Jazz Voice East High School | Denver, CO
Sofia Carrillo | Popular Voice New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Shelly Cohen | Popular Voice Dr. Michael M. Krop High School | Miami, FL
Caleb Collins | Jazz Voice Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA
Daniela Crocco | Popular Voice Lake Zurich Senior High School | Lake Zurich, IL
Ricky Dillard, Jr. | Popular Voice Lancaster High School | Lancaster, TX
Amelia Eisenhauer | Popular Voice Nashville School of the Arts | Nashville, TN
Karina Fernandez | Popular Voice Our Lady of Lourdes Academy | Miami, FL
Haley Fishberger | Singer/Songwriter Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Julesy Flavelle | Popular Voice Dover-Sherborn High School | Dover, MA
Alexander Granito | Baritone Santa Margarita Catholic High School | Rsm, CA
Jessica Graves | Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY
Kierra Gray | Singer/Songwriter Cyber Academy of South Carolina | Greenville, South Carolina
Robine Jean-Pierre | Singer/Songwriter Edward R. Murrow High School | Brooklyn, NY
Greta Keating | Singer/Songwriter Frank Sinatra School of the Arts | Astoria, NY
Benjamin Kessler | Singer/Songwriter Wissahickon High School | Ambler, PA
Margaret Kinabrew | Soprano William H. Hall High School | West Hartford, CT
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Madison Kitchen | Singer/Songwriter Denver School of the Arts | Denver, CO
Olivia Lerwick | Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Noah Levine | Singer/Songwriter Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Thomas Litchev | Bass Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Kathleen Lonski | Singer/Songwriter East Brunswick High School | East Brunswick, NJ
Erika Lopez | Singer/Songwriter Somerset Academy High School | Pembroke Pines, FL
Natalee Lowe | Soprano Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD
Samantha Lynagh | Popular Voice Christ Church Episcopal School | Greenville, SC
Sophia Marques | Jazz Voice Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL
Catherine McCreary | Popular Voice The Lovett School | Atlanta, GA
Evvie McKinney | Popular Voice The Soulsville Charter School | Memphis, TN
Jordan Moses | Popular Voice Marion County Middle/High School | Buena Vista, GA
Elizabeth Moss | Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Claire Nordstrom | Popular Voice Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA
Isabel Ostroff | Popular Voice The Branson School | Ross, CA
Andrew Padilla | Singer/Songwriter Lafayette High School | Lexington, KY
Valerie Prado | Singer/Songwriter New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL
Alexandra Prat | Mezzo Soprano San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts | San Diego, CA
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Elisheva Pront | Soprano West High School | Madison, WI
Lindsey Reynolds | Soprano New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA
Valeria Rigobon | Popular Voice Hillsborough High School | Tampa, FL
Meg Smith | Singer/Songwriter Archer School for Girls | Los Angeles, CA
Isabel Stein | Popular Voice North Hunterdon High School | Annandale, NJ
Mikaela Straus | Singer/Songwriter Avenues: The World School | New York, NY
Cordelia Tapping | Jazz Voice The Waring School | Beverly, MA
Oznur Tuluoglu | Soprano Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD
Evann Twitchell | Popular Voice Rock Bridge High School | Columbia, MO
Elena Villalon | Soprano McCallum High School | Austin, TX
Nancy Walecki | Popular Voice Malibu High School | Malibu, CA
Seth Watring | Bass Randolph School | Huntsville, AL
Patrick Wilhelm | Baritone Locust Valley Middle School | Locust Valley, NY
Adjenai Worrell | Singer/Songwriter Homeschool | Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Alexander Wunder | Baritone Kettering Fairmont High School | Kettering, OH
Writing
Olivia Alger | Short Story
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Sarah Ashdown | Short Story Viewpoint School | Calabasas, CA
Brianna Baker | Poetry Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Ian Burnette | Poetry South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Miles Carey | Play or Script for Film or Video Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI
Pooja Chandrashekar | Creative Non-Fiction Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology | Alexandria, VA
Yasmeen El-Hasan | Creative Non-Fiction Redondo Union High School | Redondo Beach, CA
Maylin Enamorado | Poetry Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Serafima Fedorova | Poetry Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Cu Fleshman | Poetry South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Jack Fossett | Play or Script for Film or Video School for Creative and Performing Arts | Cincinnati, OH
Amanda Gorman | Selection from Novel New Roads School | Santa Monica, CA
Kaitlyn Hecht | Play or Script for Film or Video Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL
Nicholas Hennessy | Short Story Amherst Regional High School | Amherst, MA
Angelo Hernandez-Sias | Selection from Novel Muskegon High School | Muskegon, MI
Adina Lasser | Poetry Fine Arts Center | Greenville, SC
Michal Leibowitz | Poetry Yeshiva University High School | Hollis, NY
Maya Lew | Creative Non-Fiction ACES Educational Center For The Arts | New Haven, CT
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT Ruting Li | Poetry Milton Academy | Milton, MA
Gabriella Lott | Poetry South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Joan Milburn | Play or Script for Film or Video Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX
Kadija Moulton | Play or Script for Film or Video Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Michael Muldowney | Play or Script for Film or Video Carmel High School | Carmel, IN
Dakotah Murphree | Short Story Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
Sasha Mutchnik | Play or Script for Film or Video Marlborough School | Los Angeles, CA
Kendall Neubeiser | Poetry South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC
Gabriela Ramos Tavarez | Play or Script for Film or Video University Puerto Rico School | San Juan, PR
Isabella Shary | Play or Script for Film or Video Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA
Willow Shipperley | Creative Non-Fiction Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Towson, MD
Daisy Stone | Short Story Birch Wathen Lenox School | New York, NY
Erin Stoodley | Poetry El Camino High School | Ventura, CA
Adriane Tharp | Poetry Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL
Catherine Valdez | Creative Non-Fiction Miami Arts Charter School | Miami, FL
Timothy Vaughn | Play or Script for Film or Video Mary McDowell Friends School | Brooklyn, NY
Qianyue Xu | Short Story Jones College Prep High School | Chicago, IL
2015 YOUNGARTS WINNERS MERIT