2003 YoungArts Winners FINALISTS Cinematic Arts Preston H. Burger Massapequa High School | Massapequa Park, NY William Garrett Hamilton Russellville High School | Russellville, AR Matthew Nicholas Hormann Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Pasadena, CA Darnell Jones-Bey East Orange Campus High School | East Orange, NJ Mikhail Leonidovich Mazor Germantown High School | Memphis, TN Dance Rosalie Cirio | Ballet Home School | Carlisle, PA Archana Dittakavi | Other Centennial High School | Alpharetta, GA Roderick Roylon George | Ballet High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Mia Catherine Leimkuhler | Ballet Terra Linda High School | San Rafael, CA Alanna E. Morris | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Amber Lee Parker | Choreography Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY Shamel T. Pitts | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY Lucien O. Postlewaite | Ballet Pacific Northwest Ballet | Seattle, WA Roger F. Prince | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY Ryan Hugh Rankine | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Deer Park, NY Victor Carl Reddick | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Arverne, NY Jacquelyn Jane Reyes | Ballet John Custis Christian School | Kenner, LA Uma Sundari Tadepalli | Other Charles E Jordan High School | Durham, NC Karell Laquan Williams | Modern New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Marcus Jarroll Willis | Modern Professional Performing Arts School | Bronx, NY Jazz Mahesh D. Balasooriya | Keyboard Hamilton High School Academy of Music | Los Angeles, CA Philip Jason Dizack | Trumpet Milwaukee High School of the Arts | Glendale, WI Zachary Allen Chester Harmon | Percussion Winneconne High School | Winneconne, WI Gabe H. Noel | Double Bass New Trier Township High School | Wilmette, IL Joris Roelofs | Saxophone Holland, FS Music 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Timothy Hall Andres | Composition Home School | Washington, CT Anna Katherine Barnett-Hart | Violin Fairview High School | Superior, CO Stephen Carrington Cabell | Composition Interlochen Arts Academy | Owensboro, KY Andrew Dubelsten | Trumpet Tualatin High School | Tualatin, OR Jeannette H.L. Fang | Classical Piano Bridgewater-Raritan High School | Bridgewater, NJ Mikiko Kay Fujiwara | Violoncello Parkway Central High School | Chesterfield, MO Cynthia L. Gong | Classical Piano Westridge School for Girls | South Pasadena, CA Carolyn Mae Jantsch | Tuba University of Michigan | Worthington, OH Won-Jin Jo | Clarinet Lawrence Woodmere Academy | Malverne, NY Rebecca Yoojin Kim | Violin Newport High School | Bellevue, WA Yevgeniy Milyavskiy | Classical Piano Seton La Salle High School | Tarzana, CA Dan Shapiro | Composition Conestoga Valley Senior High School | Ephrata, PA Victor Alexander Sotelo | Violoncello Northwestern University Music Academy | Louisville, KY Derric Gene-Hau Tay | Classical Piano Nova Senior High School | Cooper City, FL Judy Marie White | Flute Flagstaff High School | Flagstaff, AZ Photography Janine Ann D’Agati Towson High School | Towson, MD Erin Elizabeth Eriksen 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Episcopal High School | Houston, TX Lily Serena Kerrigan Marlborough School | Los Angeles, CA Christina Maria Rotondi Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Baltimore, MD Erin Michelle Stuhlsatz Xavier College Preparatory | Scottsdale, AZ Theater Celeste Nicole Arias | Spoken Only Ulysses S. Grant High School | Portland, OR Nicole Tamara Browne | Spoken Only South Carolina Governor’s School for Arts and Humanities | Greenville, SC Danielle Trina Burr | Spoken and Musical Theater Interlochen Arts Academy | Omaha, NE Marisa Nicole Dargahi | Spoken and Musical Theater Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | New York, NY Anna Rose Epstein | Spoken Only High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Matt Paul Hune | Spoken Only High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX John Francis Kern | Spoken Only Baltimore School for the Arts | Baltimore, MD Sean Lynch | Spoken Only Tamalpais High School | Mill Valley, CA Charity Miller | Spoken Only Miami Northwestern Senior High School | Miami, FL Jennifer Levasseur Sheehan | Spoken and Musical Theater Kirkwood Senior High School | Kirkwood, MO Drew Michael Shimomura | Spoken Only Grant High School | Portland, OR Daniel Joseph Sykes | Spoken Only Dobson High School | Mesa, AZ Jackson Corey Tobiska | Spoken Only Orange County High School | Santa Ana, CA 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Chantal Marie Varga | Spoken and Musical Theater Braulio Alonso High School | Tampa, FL Jimmy David Walker-Pearson | Spoken Only Winston Churchill High School | San Antonio, TX Visual Arts Matthew Pittman Austin The Montgomery Academy | Montgomery, AL Christopher Adam Bayerle Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL Daniel R. Bina Kansas City Academy | Aurora, IL Louisa M. Diliberti Pius XI High School | Milwaukee, WI Rukmini Giridharadas Holton-Arms School | Chevy Chase, MD Richard Barry Glucksberg Albert Einstein High School | North Potomac, MD John Patrick Koppes Jefferson High School | Lafayette, IN Kate Mezhibovskaya Edward R. Murrow High School | Brooklyn, NY Taqiy Abdullah Muhammad Philadelphia High School for the Creative & Performing Arts | Philadelphia, PA Samantha Marie Romage Douglass Anderson School of the Arts | Jacksonville, FL Leslie James Smith,III Albert Einstein High School | Silver Spring, MD Patricia Suau New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Chat Travieso New World School of the Arts | Miami, FL Jacobo Carrasco Walker Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Virginia Jo White 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Voice Kira Manette Austin-Young | Mezzo Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Dallas, TX Sarah Jean Cozzi | Mezzo Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Ironwood, MI Anna Fredericka Ellsaesser-Popov | Soprano Booker T. Washington, HSPVA | Dallas, TX Vasil Garvanliev | Bass Downers Grove South | Bolingbrook, IL Mayra I. Gutierrez Perez | Popular Voice Commonwealth High School | Bayamon, PR Tracy Anne Labrecque | Soprano Interlochen Arts Academy | Seabrook, TX John David Mansell | Baritone Clarksville High School | Clarksville, TN Kevin Patrick Ray | Baritone Cornwall Central High School | Cornwall, NY Samantha Anna Sidley | Popular Voice Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Los Angeles, CA Christopher Alan Young | Popular Voice Oakland High School | Murfreesboro, TN Writing Amber Jewell Bard | Poetry Interlochen Arts Academy | East Leroy, MI Olga Alexandrea Boyko | Expository Carver Center for Arts and Technology | Reisterstown, MD Leah Alexandra Falk | Poetry Schenley High School | Pittsburgh, PA Angeline Grace Gragasin | Expository The Prairie School | Racine, WI 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS FINALISTS Nikki Rachel Grossman | Short Story Perpich Center for Arts Education | Golden Valley, MN Branden Kemiah Jacobs-Jenkins | Poetry St. John’s College High School | Washington, DC Elizabeth Williams John | Short Story Interlochen Arts Academy | Nashville, TN Lisa Alana Locascio | Poetry Oak Park River Forest High School | River Forest, IL Meghan Rose Maloney | Poetry School of the Arts | Rochester, NY Essie L. Martsinkovsky | Short Story Milton Academy | Brookline, MA Katherine Allison McGriff | Short Story Alabama School of Fine Arts | Hoover, AL Reginald Jerome Powell | Short Story Alabama School of Fine Arts | Birmingham, AL Kamala Kiyo Puligandla | Short Story Piedmont High School | Piedmont, CA Annika Mae Rosenvinge | Poetry Roosevelt High School | Seattle, WA Rebekah Lee Steely | Short Story Alabama School of Fine Arts | Pleasant Grove, AL HONORABLE MENTIONS Cinematic Arts Nicholas Walter Baer Amherst Central High School | Amherst, NY Scott Andrew Beck Bettendorf High School | Bettendorf, IA Jack Thomas McKee Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts | Palm Beach Gardens, FL Elysha Rae Schneider Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts | Lake Worth, FL 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Brian Gordon Sizensky Trumbull High School | Trumbull, CT Matt Van Doren Douglass Anderson School of the Arts | St. Augustine, FL Devin Walsh Los Angeles County High School for the Arts | Canoga Park, CA Dance Stacey Elizabeth Aung | Modern Sonora Senior High School | La Habra, CA Jenni M. Bae | Other Van Nuys High School | Northridge, CA Calvin C. Booker | Modern Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY Calvin C. Booker | Tap Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School | Brooklyn, NY Diane Norris Booth | Ballet Newport Harbor Senior High School | Newport Beach, CA Christine Marie Comer | Other Carroll High School | Dayton, OH Caroline Delores Fermin | Modern Mandeville High School | Mandeville, LA Jorge Fuentes | Other Booker T. Washington, HSPVA | Dallas, TX Jorge Fuentes | Choreography Booker T. Washington, HSPVA | Dallas, TX Jorge Fuentes | Modern Booker T. Washington, HSPVA | Dallas, TX Roderick Roylon George | Choreography High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Roderick Roylon George | Modern High School for the Performing and Visual Arts | Houston, TX Coco Francesca Nikte Gonzalez | Ballet Clonlara School | Auburn, AL Kyra J. Green | Modern 2003 YOUNGARTS WINNERS HONORABLE MENTIONS Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts | New York, NY Rebecca Innis | Ballet Our Lady of Nazareth | Lynnfield, MA Whitney Nichole Kowalsky | Other John Carroll Senior High School | Ft. Pierce, FL Aniana Maria Marban | Ballet New World