This year’s Virtual Piano Duo Festival was held on Saturday, April 24th. We had 6 teaching studios and 18 duo teams participated in 4 categories for this event. Thanks to the participating teachers, Eunice Ahn, Irina Bessonova, Carol Ong-Chen, Isabelle Roux, Lori Vickers, and Lea Schmidt-Rogers for their dedicated work with their duo teams. Also, thanks to Yuko Maruyama, Chutaphin Yeager and Risa Schapiro for their help to run this Zoom event smoothly.
Category I: Ages 5 – 9
1st place: Mason Kwon & Ryan Kim
2nd place: Lillian Wang & Andrew Ong
3rd place: Blake Hawkinson & Alex Hawkinson
Honorable Mentions:
Elena Knight & Beau Miller
Aarya Iyer & Eva Lobo
Maya Tsubokawa & Kayla Tsubokawa
Category II: Ages 10 – 12
1st place: Allison Duong & Katelyn Duong
2nd place: Charity Chen & Yiyi He
3rd place: Gloria McKibben & Cloë Coco Reeves Abi-Nahed
Honorable Mentions:
Emma Bransi & Zoé Bransi
Kenzie Shaaban & Kaïla Knight
Chloe Lin & Claire Lin
Yiyi He & Ling Zhong
Sailee Caffrey & Lydia Grace Thompson
Sonali Caffrey & Nima Movaghar
Category III: Ages 13 – 15
1st place: Annalise Chang & Tyler Chang
2nd place: Peiran Liang & Wei-Shi Lai
Category IV: Ages 16 – high school
1st place: Joshua Sasaki & Brian Alba