David D. Dubois Piano Festival and Competition

2024 Winners: 

1^st Prize ($3,000) – Ryan Lu (Englewood Cliffs, NJ)

2^nd Prize ($2,000) – Ella Kim (Herndon, VA)

3^rd Prize ($1,000) – Jarmin Weng (Vaughan, Ontario, Canada)

Honorable Mention – Erik Jacoby (New Albany, OH) and Benjamin Luo (Apex, NC)

Finalists:
Zack Lam, Josephine Yoo

Finals Judges:
Vicky Chow
Peter Takacs
Gilles Vonsattel

2023 Winners: 

1^st Prize ($3,000) – Aurora Wang (Student of Alexandre Braginsky) – Shoreview, MN

2^nd Prize ($2,000) – Cory Wu (Student of Kathleen Sadoff/Nina Polonsky) – Powell, OH

3^rd Prize ($1,000) – Erik Jacoby (Student of Kathleen Sadoff/Nina Polonsky) – New Albany, OH

Honorable Mention – Sophia Lin (Student of Marjorie Lee) – Falls Church, VA

Finalists:
Levi Li – (Student of Nina Polonsky) – Powell, OH
Jean Yu (Student of Logan Skelton) – Rochester Hills, MI
Katia Jacoby (Student of Kathleen Sadoff/Nina Polonsky) – New Albany, OH

Finals Judges:
Julia Siciliano – Chicago, IL
Yu-Lien The – Western Michigan University
Anton Nel – University of Texas at Austin, Butler School of Music

2022 Winners: 

1^st Prize ($3,000) – Sophia Kim, Juilliard Prep, Wayne, NJ

2^nd Prize ($2,000) – Noah Kim, Chicago, IL

3^rd Prize ($1,000) – Munan Cheng, San Jose, CA

Honorable Mention – Gabriella Wei, Westlake, OH

Judges included Robert Shannon (Oberlin), Haewon Song (Oberlin), Frank Huang (Miami U), Matthew Hill (Goshen), Tian Tian (Oakland U), and Robert McDonald (Juilliard/Curtis).

All photos credit of David Dupont / BG Independent News

2021 WINNERS:

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Shiv Yajnik (Dallas, TX)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Katherine Liu (Wellesley Hills, MA)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Natalie Chow (Livingston, NJ)

Winner's Concert- https://youtu.be/uVlyCdiIsIA

2021 Dubois Piano Festival & Competition Winners

2020 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Kasey Shao (Cincinnati, OH)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Alena Lu (Potomac, MD)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Tan Nguyen (Leesburg, VA) & Abhijit Devalapura (Columbus, OH)

Honorable Mention – Maxine Park (Hanover, NH)

2019 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Natasha Wu (Yongkang District, Tainan, Taiwan)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Colin Choi (Northbrook, IL)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Kasey Shao (Cincinnati, OH)

2018 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Raymond Feng

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Isabelle Lian (Novi, MI)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Angelina Ning

2017 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Chi Zhang

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Roger Shen

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Isabelle Lian (Novi, MI)

2016 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Eric Lin (Falls Church, VA)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Heather Gu (Troy, MI)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Shuheng Zhang (Canton, MI)

Honorable Mention – Henry Tang (Brooklyn, NY)

2015 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Charlie Liu (Princeton, NJ)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Kevin Takeda (Indian Wells, CA)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Adrian Liao (San Diego, CA)

2014 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Evelyn Mo (Alexandria, VA)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Matthew Figel

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – David Geng

Honorable Mention – Sasha Bult-Ito (Interlochen Arts Academy/ Fairbanks, AK)

2013 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Patrick Pan (Houston, TX)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Evelyn Mo (Alexandria, VA)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Trenton Takaki (Winnetka, IL) & Ariela Bohrod (Interlochen Arts Academy/WI)

2012 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Phoebe Pan (Irvine, CA)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Vanessa Haynes (Boston, MA)

2011 Winners

1^st Prize - $3,000 – Arianna Korting (CIM Prep/Gates Mills, OH)

2^nd Prize - $2,000 – Brook Zhang (Gahanna, OH)

3^rd Prize - $1,000 – Naomi Causby (Columbia, SC) & Danni Feng (LaSalle, Ontario, Canada)