November 13, 2021 was an exciting day as we happily re-opened our MTACSD doors for the Sonata Contest in Memory of Jane Smisor Bastien! It was a joy to hear and see students performing live again. We had 283 entrants this year.
I want to thank our incredible team of volunteers! First and foremost, thank you to MTAC member, Dr. Victor Labenske for co-sponsoring our event and helping us to secure Point Loma Nazarene University as our facility. Thank you to Brian Goral and Chutaphin Yeager for organizing our lovely breakfast and lunch. Thank you to Dr. Mitzi Kolar, our wise adviser on all MTAC procedures. Thank you to our branch president Yuko Maruyama for helping us communicate with our teachers and student families and helping us with Covid protocols so that we could hold our event in-person again. To our other MTAC member volunteers: Sarah Victor, Karlin Labenske, Miriam Cole, Chase Hills, Angelina Hardy, Eleanor Hum, Xiao-Yan Sui, Jamie Lin, Rachel Mendoza, Magdi Bornemisza, Hua Wang, Isabelle Roux, Denise Lepard; thank you so much for your time.
Other volunteers: Riley Vickers, Lindsey Heinrich, Brittney Heinrich, Patty Rudolph, Hector Hum, Jason Wanner, Francisco Mamon, Alex Yerbury, Lachlan Yerbury, Chelsea Clements, Paul Otterson, and to the several Point Loma Nazarene music students who volunteered; thank you so much for your time.
To my husband, Eric, thank you for your time and technical expertise to help organize the event.
We are very grateful to our highly esteemed judges for the day: Dr. Sanaz Rezai (Los Angeles), Dr. Randi Rudolph (Phoenix, Arizona), Erika Ramos (Redlands), Joanne Stohs (Northern San Diego), Mark Mendez (Montebello), Teri Watson (Fullerton), Dr. Ellen Kim (Fullerton), Dr. Masako Klassen (Fullerton), and Jo Ellen Vandruff (Orange County). We thank them for their time and expertise.
We hope to see everyone again next year!
Sincerely,
Lori Bastien Vickers, Chairperson
2021 SONATA CONTEST RESULTS
| Group 1A – Bastien | Group 1B – Bastien |
| 1st Place – Ruitong Xia | 1st Place – Farrah Fangao |
| 2nd Place – Lucas Zhang | 2nd Place – Jovanny Fernandez & Connor Su |
| 3rd Place – Sara Park & Angeline Wang | 3rd Place – Maya Tsubokawa |
| Group 2A – Vandall | Group 2B – Gillock |
| 1st Place – Janelle Chen | 1st Place – Angela Cai |
| 2nd Place – Nathan Chou | 2nd Place – Kadmus Ma |
| 3rd Place – Maya Almog | 3rd Place – Clara Stone |
| Group 3A – Alexander | Group 3B – Gillock |
| 1st Place – Briana Au | 1st Place – Aiden Park |
| 2nd Place – Aiden Liu | 2nd Place – Alice Zhang |
| 3rd Place – Jovan Lim | 3rd Place – George Feng |
| Group 4A – Bober | Group 4B – Clementi |
| 1st Place – Angela Han & Katelyn Li | 1st Place – Elena Chen |
| 2nd Place – Celine Karyodisa | 2nd Place – Coye K. Miao |
| 3rd Place – Astrea Archibald, Karissa Christman & Amanda Tseng | 3rd Place – Yvonne Gao & Henry Sun |
| Group 5A – Clementi | Group 5B – Diabelli |
| 1st Place – Ruiya Xia | 1st Place – Isabella Nguyen |
| 2nd Place – Elizabeth Weng | 2nd Place – Benny Chen |
| 3rd Place – Seojin Lee | 3rd Place – Kayla Hanoch |
| Group 6A – Vandall | Group 6B – Kuhlau |
| 1st Place – Andrew J. Lee & Davin Mach | 1st Place – Amy Zhang |
| 2nd Place – Maya Hanoch | 2nd Place – Chloe Chen |
| 3rd Place – Anya Davis & Nikita Mouravyov | 3rd Place – Jenny Wu |
| Group 7 – Kuhlau | Group 8 – Beethoven |
| 1st Place – Chloe Li | 1st Place – Owen White |
| 2nd Place – Selena Chang | 2nd Place – Ella Xing |
| 3rd Place – Evonne Fangao | 3rd Place – Tyler Chang, Rien Chen & Sarah Deng |
| Group 9 – Haydn | Group 10 – Mozart |
| 1st Place – Amber Zhang | 1st Place – Adora Xiao |
| 2nd Place – Bryce Liu | 2nd Place – Edison Choy |
| 3rd Place – Minhtu Nguyen | 3rd Place – Sameer Prakash |
| Group 11 – Beethoven | |
| 1st Place – Cynthia Zhang | |
| 2nd Place – Yilin Zhu | |
| 3rd Place – Cindy Cao |
