2022 Goodlin Results & Acknowledgement

Thank you to all participants, teachers, volunteers, friends and families for making the 2022 H. B. Goodlin Scholarship Competition a successful event celebrating the excellence in music education in San Diego County. We had 75 students from 38 teaching studios participating in five divisions. The auditions were adjudicated by 9 Preliminary judges and 6 Finals judges.

The Preliminary Round Audition was conducted as a video submission event. 26 Finalists were selected by the Preliminary judges, and 25 Finalists participated in the Finals Audition, which was held in person at Cuyamaca College Theatre on Saturday, May 21. This was our first in-person Goodlin Scholarship event since the beginning of the pandemic. Thank you to all Finalists, teachers, volunteers and parents for following the Covid safety rules and making this Finals event run smoothly.

Thank you to the San Diego Foundation, the William E. Schmidt Foundation and other generous donors for their continued support for this event. Thank you to Cuyamaca College for hosting the Saturday Finals Competition in their beautiful Theatre.

I would like to acknowledge the following participating studios for their work in educating our music students in San Diego County: Eunice Ahn, Ning An, Ruslan Biryukov, Dana Burnett, Wanping Chen, Sun Yung Cho, Hernan Constantino, Angelina Hardy, Eleanor Hum, Xiao Liang, Philip Lim, April Lin, Inessa Litvin, Yu Carole Liu, Rinna Livshin, Pam Martchev, Brenda Martin, George Maxman, Alexander Mirolyan, Gaiana Mndoian, Alexander Palamidis, Cho-Hyun Park, Viktor Shekhtman, Xiao-yan Sui, Elaine Tokman, Peichun Tsai, Irina Tseitlin, Michael Tseitlin, Pasha Tseitlin, Anna Vasilyeva, Yun-Yin Wu, Elena Yarritu, Mei Yin, Dawn Yokum, Dan Yu, Tingting Zhang, Yao Zhao and Jia Zhou.

Our Finals event could not have been possible without all the work done by the volunteers, which included many music teachers and their students and families. In particular, I would like to thank the current and the past members of the MTAC San Diego Board of Directors, and the members of the H. B. Goodlin Foundation Board. Special thanks to Dr. J. Mitzi Kolar for her help and guidance, and Lea Schmidt-Rogers for always “being there” for us.

Thank you to the 2022 Goodlin Competition Finals Volunteers: Yaumo Chan, Eugene Cho, Laura Cho, Sun Yung Cho, Connie Gale, Brian Goral, Eleanor Hum, Ed Litvin, Yuko Maruyama, Michiko Parseghian, Lea Schmidt-Rogers, Risa Schapiro, Jaclyn Summers, Chutaphin Yeager, and Lu Yuan.

We were privileged to have these distinguished judges for this year’s competition: Lori Bell, Dr. Ching-Ming Cheng, Dr. Tina Chong, Angela Choong, Dr. Karen Follingstad, Dr. Andrea Garreffa, Heidi Lee Kim, Edith Orloff, Dr. Sanaz Rezai, Craig Richey, Dr. Taylor Smith, Mark Teplitsky, Dr. Philip Tyler, Teri Watson, and Dr. Angela Yeung. Link to Judges’ Bios