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