Young Artist Performance National Finalists

2024–2025

Brass

Entrant	State	Teacher
Ryan Lofland	Michigan	David Zerkel
Campbell Byrd	Oklahoma	Ryan Robinson
Eunjeong Lee	Colorado	James Dunn
Geoffrey Sims	Arkansas	Brent Shires
Bradley Greathouse	Nebraska	Alan Mattingly
Samuel Vance	Tennessee	Alexander Lapins
Nicholas Dauerer	Georgia	Bradley Palmer

Piano

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
Elizabeth Low	Michigan	East Central	Christopher Harding
Vitalii Khairutdinov	New Jersey	Eastern	Veda Zuponcic
Jacob McKay	Idaho	Northwest	Scott Holden
Ikeobasi Ezike	Texas	South Central	Bradley Bolen
Kevin Cho	Tennessee	Southern	Heather Conner
Bonhwi Kim	California	Southwest	Yoshikazu Nagai
Chaihun Kim	Missouri	West Central	Wei-Han Su

String

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
*Bethany Bobbs	New Jersey	Eastern	Catherine Bobbs
**Vivienne Lucier	New York	Eastern	Masumi Rostad
Joel Lee	Washington	Northwest	John Michel
Marina Ziegler	Texas	South Central	Paul Kantor
Maxwell Van Hoeij	Tennessee	Southern	Cornelia Heard
Alina Baron	Utah	Southwest	Amy Baron
Elijah Pouliot	Colorado	West Central	Alex Gonzalez

Voice

Entrant	State	Teacher
Denisse Balandran	South Dakota	Tracelyn Gesteland
Annalisa Blevins	South Carolina	Corinne Parker
*Natalie Creel	Louisiana	Dennis Jesse
**Olivia Tice	Iowa	Leanne Freeman-Miller
Emilia Jurzyk	Iowa	Leanne Freeman-Miller
Abigail Lysinger	Texas	Melanie Sonnenberg
Emily Pace	Texas	Robert Best
Adam Phillips	Iowa	Leanne Freeman-Miller

Woodwind

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
Jackson Govern	Illinois	East Central	Nicole Roman
Austin Shilling	New York	Eastern	Chien-Kwan Lin
Preston Hernandez	Louisiana	South Central	Kendra Wheeler
Carter Doolittle	North Carolina	Southern	Robert Young
Nicholas Carozza	Nevada	Southwest	Stephen Caplan
Christopher Hunley	Iowa	West Central	Kenneth Tse