2020 YoungArts Winners FINALISTS Classical Music Lucas Amory | Piano Stuyvesant High School | New York, NY Caleb Borick | Piano Homeschool | Charleston, SC Laura Futamura | Flute High Technology High School | Lincroft, NJ Albert Gang | Violin Sage Hill School | Newport Coast, CA Meagan Hipsky | Violoncello Homeschool | Guilford, IN Masha Lakisova | Violin NorthStar Academy | Southaven, MS Alice McDonald | Clarinet Monument Mountain Regional High School | Great Barrington, MA Jane Meenaghan | Composition Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA Orion Miller | Double Bass Special Music School | New York, NY Clara Neubauer | Violin The Dalton School | New York, NY 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Mychal Nishimura | French Horn Tamalpais High School | Mill Valley, CA Andy Park | Viola Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences | Santa Monica, CA Katherine Pieschala | Composition Polytechnic School | Pasadena, CA Gracie Potter | Trombone Arizona School for the Arts | Phoenix, AZ Spencer Rubin | Oboe Syosset High School | Syosset, NY Kasey Shao | Piano Walnut Hills High School | Cincinnati, OH Dylan Shih Wu | Violoncello Manhasset Secondary School | Manhasset, NY Cole Turkel | Clarinet Oak Crest Academy | Los Angeles, CA Eric Wang | Guitar Valley Christian High School | San Jose, CA Lanxin Xu | Accordion Walnut High School | Walnut, CA Jessica Zhang | Piano Corona del Sol High School | Tempe, AZ Dance Tomoe Carr | Hip Hop High Tech High School | Secaucus, NJ Rush Carson | Choreography New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Nicholas Dao | Modern/Contemporary Willow Glen High School | San Jose, CA Emanuel Dostine | Modern/Contemporary Michigan Great Lakes Virtual Academy | Manistee, MI Joziah German | Modern/Contemporary Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Andre Imanishi | Tap The Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology | New York, NY Jacqueline Jankovsky | Modern/Contemporary Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Dallas, TX Nouhoum Koita | Modern/Contemporary Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | New York, NY Claire Lucas | Modern/Contemporary Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA Aidan Lynch | Hip Hop Christ Presbyterian Academy | Nashville, TN Lucas Marinetto | Tap University of Nebraska High School | Lincoln, NE Lindy Mesmer | Ballet Laurel Springs School | Ojai, CA Keara Nichols | Ballet Cabrillo Point Academy | El Cajon, CA Amelie Or | Tap Oak Ridge High School | El Dorado Hills, CA Tyrone Reese | Ballet W. P. Davidson High School | Mobile, AL Sydney Revennaugh | Modern/Contemporary Marion High School | Marion, IN Alina Taratorin | Ballet Palo Alto Senior High School | Palo Alto, CA Kailey Worontsoff | Modern/Contemporary Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Design Arts Coco Angelo Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Beatrix Begler Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Maria Carpenter The Governor’s Academy | Byfield, MA 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Carly Chan Leland High School | San Jose, CA Nicholas Ferguson Poolesville High School | Poolesville, MD Jonah Ginsburg The Masters School | Dobbs Ferry, NY Ramya Iyer Westside High School | Omaha, NE David Rodriguez Design and Architecture Senior High School | Miami, FL Kyle Ventura Design and Architecture Senior High School | Miami, FL Ariel Weinberg Design and Architecture Senior High School | Miami, FL Film Dusan Brown Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Sage Croft Windermere High School | Windermere, FL Miles Dixon Churchill High School | Eugene, OR Grace Gallagher Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Jared Goudsmit Kirkwood High School | Kirkwood, MO Anthony Hsu Taipei American School | Taipei, Taiwan, ROC Anthony Kelly Roadstead Montessori High School | Norfolk, VA Teddy Alvarez-Nissen Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Theodore Taplitz Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Kai Tomizawa Ulysses S. Grant High School | Portland, OR Jazz Jason Arkins | Saxophone/Baritone Carmel High School | Carmel, NY Graeham Guerin | Double Bass Westlake High School | Westlake, OH Sophia Kickhofel | Saxophone/Alto Apple Valley High School | Apple Valley, MN Miles Lennox | Piano Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL Emmanuel Michael | Guitar Washington High School | Sioux Falls, SD Ethan Pires | Trumpet Northgate High School | Walnut Creek, CA Miguel Russell | Percussion Dillard High School | Fort Lauderdale, FL Photography Caitlin Chung Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA Kyle Fisher St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX Kayla Leon Venice High School | Los Angeles, CA Ryan McCord St. Mark’s School of Texas | Dallas, TX Chiemeka Offor Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA Amira Oguntoyinbo University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC Kleo Pope The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center | Providence, RI 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Jayson Rodriguez The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center | Providence, RI Santiago Salazar Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA Adali Schell Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA Zoe Vassiliou Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | New York, NY Theater Savannah Lee Birdsong Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY Kyle Branch Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Catarina de Luca Figueiredo New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Simon Dollinger Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Amari Dyson Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL Miles Elliot Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Thomas Fitzgerald Rocky Hill Country Day School | East Greenwich, RI Dwany Guzman Professional Performing Arts School | New York, NY David Iacono Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | New York, NY Mia Kendell Interlochen Center for the Arts | Interlochen, MI William Ngong Ballard High School | Louisville, KY Ulises Otero Jr. New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Jordan Rice Homeschool | Dacula, GA Mallorie Sievert Douglas Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL Arethabelle Smith River Hill High School | Clarksville, MD Zoë Stewart TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School | East Walpole, MA Alyssa Sunew Seven Lakes High School | Katy, TX Madison Uphoff Madison West High School | Madison, WI Daniel Velez Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts | Los Angeles, CA Jater Webb Chaminade College Preparatory | West Hills, CA Remsen Welsh ACES Educational Center for the Arts | New Haven, CT Visual Arts Olivia Bigtree Manlius Pebble Hill School | Syracuse, NY Amanda Blanca Design and Architecture Senior High School | Miami, FL Nichole Hernandez New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Samuel Jorge New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Austin Kim Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA Martin Mbuguah South Side High School | Ft Wayne, IN Oscar Garay Harvard-Westlake School | Studio City, CA 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Destiny Moore New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Nicolas Ouporov Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | West Palm Beach, FL Andrew Spielvogel State College Area High School | State College, PA Nicholas Turgeon Wade Hampton High School | Greenville, SC John Wright, II South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities | Greenville, SC Voice Anthony Arya | Singer-Songwriter Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School | Santa Cruz, CA Sarah Butler | Classical Soprano Duluth East High School | Duluth, MN Adrian Chabla | Singer-Songwriter Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts | New York, NY Karina Constantinides | Popular Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Talia Dalton | Singer-Songwriter Dalton School | Cary, NC Ethan Danto | Singer-Songwriter Orange County School of the Arts | Santa Ana, CA Harrison Finks | Singer-Songwriter Memphis University School | Memphis, TN Calista Garcia | Singer-Songwriter The H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program | Arlington, VA Emma Gonzalez | Jazz Enloe Magnet High School | Raleigh, NC Anthony Josep | Classical Baritone New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Sarah Grace Kimberly | Popular Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX 2020 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Lauren Maynus | Classical Soprano Ursuline Academy | Blue Ash, OH Sage McNeely | Popular John Burroughs High School | Burbank, CA Madison Perry | Classical Soprano Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School | Dumfries, VA Pablo Rubin-Jurado | Classical Tenor Homeschool | New York, NY Vuyiswa Sigadi | Classical Soprano Emmett J. Conrad High School | Dallas, TX Georgianna Stafford | Jazz Fryeburg Academy | Fryeburg, ME Aron Stornaiuolo | Jazz University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winston Salem, NC Gabrielle Turgeon | Classical Soprano Korah Collegiate and Vocational School | Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, CAN Ronell Warmuth | Classical Baritone Strongsville High School | Strongsville, OH Writing Isabella Cho | Poetry North Shore Country Day School | Winnetka, IL Kaya Dierks | Play or Script The Branson School | Ross, CA Kaya Dierks | Short Story The Branson School | Ross, CA