The 14th annual Young Artist Piano Competition Finalists Achievement Awards Recital was held on Saturday, May 14th at 3:00 p.m.  at Florida Gulf Coast University’s Bower School of Music & the Arts.  Over 100 music lovers from Southwest Florida were in attendance.

Finalists knew they would be performing in the recital but had not been informed of their award.  The recital featured all of the finalists performing one of their competition pieces and concluded with the presentation of awards and prizes.

Competition Director Dr Michael Baron with Overall Winner Maggie Johns

 SENIOR DIVISION

1st Place: Maggie Johns (Overall Winner)
2nd Place: Kyleigh Kimball
3rd Place: Jonah Berg

JUNIOR DIVISION

1st Place: Frank Sanders
2nd Place: Amy Wu
3rd Place: Daniel Holmes

Honorable Mention:
David Carlson
Christopher Myers

LATE ELEMENTARY DIVISION

1st Place: Allan Zhou
2nd Place: Elise Brown
3rd Place: Tiana Richter

Honorable Mention:
David Liu
Justin Wang

EARLY ELEMENTARY DIVISION 

1st Place: Julianna Wang
2nd Place: Rachel Kastner
3rd Place: Miles Brown

Honorbale Mention:
Emil Daniyar

The Steinway Piano Society would like to thank all of the finalists, their families and members of our Southwest Florida Community for attending.  We encourage you to become a member of the Steinway Piano Society. Together we can foster a more musical community for the future.

 Thanks to our competition sponsors!

 Jeff and Kim Sutton