2016 YoungArts Winners FINALISTS Cinematic Arts Coleman Andersen Ballard High School | Seattle, WA Kayla Briët Cypress High School | Cypress, CA Gabrielle Gorman New Roads School | Santa Monica, CA Lauryn Henry Hun School of Princeton | Princeton, NJ Chester Milton Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Griffin Olis Athens High School | Troy, MI Nick Ramey New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA Dance Todd Baker | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Kalyn Berg | Modern Professional Children’s School | New York, NY Madeline Bertoy | Modern Oak Ridge High School | El Dorado Hills, CA Jared Brown | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Treyden Chiaravalloti | Modern Henry B. Plant High School | Tampa, FL Dylan Croy | Modern High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Evan DeBenedetto | Tap Saint Joseph High School | Trumbull, CT Alaman Diadhiou | Tap Brentwood School | Los Angeles, CA Isabella Franco | Ballet Marlborough School | Los Angeles, CA Michael Garcia | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Alex Greenlee | Tap Natomas Charter School | Sacramento, CA Madison Haschak | Jazz Temecula Valley High School | Temecula, CA Whitney Hester | Ballet Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Lex Ishimoto | Ballet Homeschool | Irvine, California Javon Jones | Modern Cass Technical High School | Detroit, MI Taylor Kurtz | Jazz Great Oak High School | Temecula, CA Maddie Murphy | Tap Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Pavithra Nagarajan | Classical Indian American High School | Fremont, CA Dario Natarelli | Tap Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Athira Pratap | Classical Indian Moreau Catholic High School | Hayward, CA Kuu Sakuragi | Ballet Keystone National High School | Bloomsburg, PA Kaylin Sturtevant | Modern Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Design Tiarra Bell Science Leadership Academy | Philadelphia, PA Joel Collins Atlee High School | Mechanicsville, VA Zoe Elakman Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Diana Eusebio Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Nicholas Garcia Doral Academy Charter High School | Doral, FL Samantha Ho Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA John Landry St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX Marvin Lee Ward Melville High School | East Setauket, NY Lexi Lehrman Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Cornelius Tulloch Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Nadia Wolff Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Elvis Zhang The Shipley School | Bryn Mawr, PA Jazz Abdulrahman Amer | Trombone Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Anthony Hervey | Trumpet Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL Luca Mendoza | Keyboard Crossroads School | Santa Monica, CA Philip Norris | Double Bass 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Wake Forest High School | Wake Forest, NC Brian Richburg, Jr. | Percussion New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans, LA James Robertson | Alto Saxophone Benjamin Mays High School | Atlanta, GA Emmett Sher | Guitar Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Music Nicholas Arredondo | Contrabass Vancouver School of Arts and Academics | Vancouver, WA Torin Bakke | Clarinet Adlai E. Stevenson High School | Lincolnshire, IL Michael Jon Bennett | Organ The Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY Martin Bernstein | Recorder Hunter College High School | New York, NY Zlatomir Fung | Violoncello Oak Meadow School | Brattleboro, VT Geneva Lewis | Violin Homeschool | Irvine, California Adrian Liao | Piano Torrey Pines High School | San Diego, CA Derek Louie | Violoncello Professional Children’s School | New York, NY Anastasia Magamedova | Piano Waterford School | Sandy, UT Laura Michael | Recorder Friends Seminary | New York, NY Hana Mizuta | Piano Homestead High School | Cupertino, CA Aubree Oliverson | Violin Mountain Heights Academy | West Jordan, UT Evren Ozel | Piano Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Natick, MA 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Elisabeth Pesavento | French Horn Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI Charles Stacy | Composition Phillips Academy | Andover, MA Derek Wang | Piano The Rivers School | Weston, MA Yijin Wang | Clarinet Laurel Springs Academy | Ojai, CA Katherine Woo | Violin Riverside High School | Greer, SC Alexander “Sasha” Yakub | Composition Amherst Regional High School | Amherst, MA Adria Ye | Piano Professional Children’s School | New York, NY Kip Zimmerman | Oboe University High School | Tucson, AZ Photography Daveed Baptiste Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Carissa Chen Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter, NH Layla Cuilan High School of Fashion Industries | New York, NY Lydia DeBevoise Fusion Academy Brooklyn | Brooklyn, NY Lily Massee Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Alex Mediate Coronado High School | Henderson, NV Lumia Nocito The Dalton School | New York, NY Alisa Petrosova Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Rebeca Posadas-Nava 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School | Fairfax, VA Darren Ting Millburn High School | Millburn, NJ Adam Vincent Spanish Fort High School | Spanish Fort, AL Theater Nick Aquilino American Heritage-Boca/Delray | Delray Beach, FL Delia Cunningham Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Sekai Abeni Edwards Jefferson High School | Portland, OR Julia Gutierrez Del Barrio Crossroads School | Santa Monica, CA Catherine Hayman Tamalpais High School | Mill Valley, CA Lauryn Hobbs Shaker Heights High School | Shaker Heights, OH Katerina Mccrimmon New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Khandis Merritt New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Mia Pak North Monterey County High School | Castroville, CA Nicholas Polonio Green Hope High School | Cary, NC Julian Robertson Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL William Aaron Robinson Bethlehem High School | Bardstown, KY Ben Ross Santa Monica High School | Santa Monica, CA Jack Samson Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Kamari Saxon Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL Joe Serafini Bethel Park High School | Bethel Park, PA Lianah Sta. Ana Howell High School | Farmingdale, NJ Jarrett Williams South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities | Greenville, SC Maria Wirries Manatee School for the Arts | Palmetto, FL Caitlin Witty Wilton High School | Wilton, CT Daniel Zolghadri Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA Visual Arts Stephanie Aguayo Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Hanna Ali Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Courtney Allred Skyline High School | Sammamish, WA Serena August Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Leonardo Bacan New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Daveed Baptiste Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Giselle Beltran New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Tyler Brunner Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Juan Cardona Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Glenn Espinosa G. Holmes Braddock High School | Miami, FL 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Saxton Fisher High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Marlena Fleck Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Annabelle Hayford Princess Anne High School | Virginia Beach, VA Catherine Labarca Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Cassidy Little Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Rachel London Albert Einstein High School | Kensington, MD Titus Mcbeath Findlay High School | Findlay, OH Terri Ogwulumba Arlington High School | Lagrangeville, NY Hannah Taurins High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Cornelius Tulloch Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Christien Vargas Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Tammy Wei West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North | Plainsboro, NJ Wade Winslow Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA Nadia Wolff Design and Architecture Senior High | Miami, FL Shoshana Zhang Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science | Denton, TX Voice Tehillah Alphonso | Popular Voice Marian High School | Omaha, NE Jasmine Bailey | Singer/Songwriter 2016 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Placer High School | Auburn, CA Abigail Barlow | Popular Voice Valleydale Christian Academy | Birmingham, AL Dyanna Bohorques | Mezzo Soprano Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art And Performing Arts | New York, NY Madeline Boreham | Popular Voice Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Madison Douglas | Singer/Songwriter Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI Justine Garcia | Jazz Voice New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Liv Greene | Singer/Songwriter Interlochen Arts Academy | Interlochen, MI Matt Gumley | Singer/Songwriter Keystone National High School | Bloomsburg, PA Cait Harris | Popular Voice New Orleans Center for Creative Arts | New Orleans,