Congratulations and a big thank-you to all of the students, teachers, and families who participated in the 2021 H. B. Goodlin Virtual Festival! We received a total of 102 student applications for this event.
Each applicant prepared and recorded their instrumental performances on video for this virtual festival. It is our hope that preparing and polishing the audition pieces, filming their own performances, and submitting the online program applications were all valuable learning experiences for the participants.
I would like to acknowledge the participating studios, who continued to teach remotely most of this school year and despite the ongoing pandemic continued to educate and inspire these talented music students in San Diego:
Eunice Ahn, Ning An, Magdi Bornemisza, Dana Burnett, Chia-Ling Chien, Sun Yung Cho, Jan Coleman, Hernan Constantino, Joseph Cota, Susan Culbertson, Ethan Dong, David Garrett, Berta Godkin, Angelina Hardy, Eleanor Hum, Chaling Huynh, Philip Lim, Inessa Litvin, Yu Carole Liu, Rinna Livshin, Pamela Martchev, Brenda Martin, Elena Mashkovtseva, George Maxman, Alexander Mirolyan, Jared Nepute, Alexander Palamidis, Anna Savvas, Viktor Shekhtman, Seiran Sohn, Chetan Tierra, Michael Tseitlin, Luba Ugorski, Stanley Wang, Yun-Yin Wu, Angela Xing, Ariel Yang, Elena Yarritu, Mei Yin, Dan Yu, Tingting Zhang, and Yao Zhao
We were fortunate to have the following distinguished adjudicators for this event. These judges worked long hours to review each video performance, and wrote thoughtful comments on how our students can grow artistically:
Annie Bosler, Sarah Chan, Andrea Garreffa, Maya Ginsberg, Gail Lew, Laszlo Mezo, Derek Polischuk, Jay Posteraro, Dmitry Rachmanov, Ulli Reiner, Philip Tyler, and Bryan Verhoye
Finally, I would like to thank the H. B. Goodlin Scholarship Foundation Board President Jaclyn Summers, and the Board Members Sun Yung Cho, Connie Gale, Lee Galloway, Brian Goral, and Hua Wang, for making this event happen. A special thanks goes to Dr. J. Mitzi Kolar for her expertise and wisdom, and Lea Schmidt-Rogers for always being there for us.
Thank you again for your participation in this year’s Goodlin Virtual Festival. The judges’ comments will be emailed to each participant within the next few weeks. We hope to see you again next year.
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| Winners | | | Winners | |
| Division I Keyboard | Emily Chen | | Division III Keyboard | Zixuan Chen |
| ($100 Each) | Rien Chen | | ($500 Each) | Malvyn Lai |
| Chloe Li | | | Emma Li |
| James Rong | | | Luke Qiao |
| Amy Zhang | | | Aidan Wahlmann |
| | | | Eric Wang |
| | | | Yilin Zhu |
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| Division II Keyboard | Bradley Carpiuc | | Junior Instrumental | Karina Foster |
| ($250 Each) | Victoria Chen | | ($250 Each) | Anthony Kim |
| Frederick Chien | | | Serena Liu |
| Sarah Deng | | | Sophia Slott |
| Justin H. Lee | | | Caitlin Wang |
| Ethan Song | | | |
| Zhenghua Xia | | Senior Instrumental | Saeji Hong |
| Adora Xiao | | ($500 Each) | Janice Hu |
| Aili Zhang | | | Isabella McCormick |
| | | | Erica Wang |
| | | | Stacy Widyono |
| Honorable Mentions ($25 Each) | |
| Division I Keyboard | Jason Liang |
| Olivia Liang |
| Jiaqi (Amber) Zhang |
| Division II Keyboard | Healin Lee |
| Richard Lee |
| Sara Sariowan |
| Division III Keyboard | Claire Lewis |
| Eric Li |
| Andrew Zhang |
| Junior Instrumental | Helen Wang |
| Kayley Xu |
| Ethan Zhou |
| Senior Instrumental | Kevin Hu |
| Ivan Li |
| Maria Wang |
