Congratulations to New Mozart Honor Students 2021

Congratulations to New Mozart Honor Students 2021 for making the Honor Roll this year! 

New Mozart Distinguished Honor Students 2021

New Mozart Distinguished Honor Students are presented certificates commemorating their achievements and will be performing in the honors recital on March 21.

Evangeline Albrect
Alisha Bernatzki
Paulina Bonilla
Roshelle Bunuan
Beatrice Capodieci
Alice Cavalotti
Zoey Chan
Siddharth Chidambaram
Ria Cuellar-Koh
Avarya Das
Dhriti Deepak
Amanda Dharmawan
Paxon Fatehi
Maya Franz
Isabella Grimmer
Soham Gupta
Austin Guydish
Sarabeth Huang
Lukas Jelks
Zoe Jovanovic
Alli Katila-Miikkulainen
Seunghyun Lee
SeungChan Lee
Ella Leppert
Elijah Leppert
Jackson Leung
Angela Li
Vinca Lu
Carl Mankos
Paul McBurney
Emily Moeng
Guillermo Moreira
Malhar Nair
Elisa Pagano
Aria Poeta
Nia Porter
James Rahn
Nadia Ruiz
Matias Santisteban
Leo Shang
Sherry Shao
Sarah Siemsgluess
Kipling Song
Claire Spence
Kelly Tanaka
Claire Truong
Mei Tsai Knutson
Ray Van Roy
Matias Velasquez
Katherine Wang
Sophie Wu
Chloe Wu
Megan Xu
Ayla Yarnall

New Mozart Honor Students 2021

New Mozart Honor Students are presented certificates commemorating their achievements.

Andrew Bagwell
Kyle Bagwell
Malaika Boros
Simon Braun
Victor Chen
Kyvan Chen
Penelope Cheung
JP Conrad
Theo Conrad
Chiara D'Agostino
Aditya Deka
Zara Donepudi
Rebecca Doran
Miguel Estrada
Timothy Feng
Hannah Francis
Elan Frank
Abigail Friedland
Adam Friedland
Layla Gallon
Madeline Gifford
Robin Gray
Upasana Halder
Jeremiah Hollingsworth
Lukas Jelks
Eleanor Jiang
Jacob Jonson
Arnav Kamath
Alli Katila-Miikkulainen
Ella Katila-Miikkulainen
Kai Knutson
Elsa Largerblad
Asher Leppert
Paul Liu
Advaita Mamidipudi
Sarah Mercea
Megan Murphy Chutorian
Naveen Narayanaswami
Meena Narayanaswami
Gavin Ng
Anja Nilsen
Sofia Overby
Elena Overby
Elisa Pagano
Krish Pai
Camille Paldi
Audrey Pandolfo
Mira Poeta
Nia Porter
Kai Porter
Dash Pu
Clara Qiang
Lucas Qiang
Charlotte Ranisavljevic
Evelyn Ren
Siavosh Rezvan
Evelyn Rodden
Leila Safa
Ritam Saha
Narsim Setlur
Leo Shang
Steven Shu
Barbara Shufro
Anoushka Sinha
Artem Tesov
Holden Thomson
Rylan Tsai
Cory Tsai
Aarthi Venkatraman
Devi Verma
Elizabeth Wahl
Callan Wang
Kate Wong
Zara Wong
Sophie Wu
Haha Zhang
Cindy Zhang
Annabel Zhao
Debby Zhu
Ryan Zhu

Congratulations to New Mozart Honor Students 2020

New Mozart Honor Students 2020
New Mozart Honor Students 2020

Congratulations to New Mozart Honor Students 2020 for making the Honor Roll this year! 

New Mozart Honor Students are handpicked by their teachers for their determination and dedication to their musical study. 

We are very proud of every one of the students who made the Honor Roll this year!

New Mozart Distinguished Honor Students 2020

Bartholomew Baker
Louis Belot
Alisha Bernatzki
Roshelle Bunuan
Beatrice Capodieci
Zoey Chan
Penelope Cheung
Ria Cuéllar-Koh
Chiara D’Agostino
Dhriti Deepak
Erik Feng
Maya Franz
Sarabeth Huang
AvniJ ain
Zoe Jovanovic
Alli Katila-Miikkulainen
Mei Knutson
Kai Knutson
Seunghyun Lee
Seungchan Lee
Elijah Leppert
Jackson Leung
Alex Lim
Vinca Lu
Julian Ma
Ella Miikkulainen-Katila
Harrison Rampell
Sherry Shao
Steven Shu
Claire Spence
Lara Stanojevic
Claire Truong
Matias Velasquez
Venla Vuornos
Callan Wang
Kate Wong
Zara Wong
Sophie Wu
Chloe Wu
Ayla Yarnall
Annabel Zhao
Debby Zhu

New Mozart Honor Students 2020

Arya Agarwal
David Angelo
Meagan Angelo
Neil Ayer
Adi Banwasi
Simon Braun
Kyvan Chen
Abigail Cheng
Justine Chu
Chiara D'Agostino
Amanda Dharmawan
Rebecca Doran
Arielle Dror
Abigail Friedland
Adam Friedland
Noah Gallon
Layla Gallon
Madeline Gifford
Robin Gray
Rebecca Gray
Isabella Grimmer
Krisaana Gunsagar
Zaara Gupta
Austin Guydish
Lukas Jelks
Jacob Jonson
Sasha Kumar
Keira Lazareva
Olivia Leung
Andrew Li
Amy Luo
Advaita Mamidipudi
Carl Mankos
Paul McBurney
Ella Miikkulainen-Katila
Camilla Morales
Megan Murphy-Chutorian
Saina Narayan
Gavin Ng
Elena Overby
Sofia Overby
Elisa Pagano
Mira Poeta
Lucas Qiang
Charlotte Ranisavljevic
Siavosh Rezvan
Ritam Saha
Matias Santisteban
Michael Shu
Shiv Sitaram
Kipling Song
Natalie Takao
Kelly Tanaka
Claire Truong
Cory Tsai
Tallulah Turner
James Turner
Zoe Vakili
Alexandra Valdes
Aarthi Venkatraman
Devi Verma
Vedika Vivek
Elizabeth Wahl
Callan Wang
Lana Wong
Chloe Wu
Nathan Xie
Megan Xu
Alex Yan
Lauren Yan
Indigo Young
Andrew Zhao
Larry Zhao

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Vinca Lu Performed at Carnegie Hall!

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Congratulations to Vinca Lu! Our gifted piano student who just returned from New York after playing at the Carnegie Hall!

Vinca began her musical journey with us at age 3 in our Harmony Road program. She has since been working with our distinguished teacher, Dr. Alexander and has continued to grow as a pianist. In the picture below, she is performing at the Carnegie Hall as a prize winner of the American Protege Piano Competition.

Vinca has also participated in the US Open music competition in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and won 1st place every year, cross the categories of contemporary elementary level, Baroque intermediate level and mid-level open solo.

A gifted young pianist with strong work ethic, she will go very far. We look forward to seeing her talent continue to blossom. 

We're so proud of your accomplishments Vinca!

Vinca performs at Carnegie Hall as a prize winner of the American Protege Piano Competition

Vinca performs at Carnegie Hall as a prize winner of the American Protege Piano Competition

Vinca (11 here) performs at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in NMSM’s Summer Recital 2019

Vinca (11 here) performs at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in NMSM’s Summer Recital 2019

Vinca’s 4 in this picture at her first NMSM’s Honors Recital

Vinca’s 4 in this picture at her first NMSM’s Honors Recital

Bartholomew Baker Received Silver Medal at US OPEN Concerto Competition

Congratulations to Bartholomew Baker!

On Friday February 23rd, New Mozart’s gifted piano student Bartholomew participated in the Advanced Open Piano Concerto Competition hosted by the United States Open Music Competition (USOMC). This event, the highest of four levels of concerto competition, had eight competitors playing various pieces such as the 1st movement from Chopin’s Concerto #1 Op. 11 in E minor and the 1st movement of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto #1 Op.23 in Bb minor.  Bartholomew, performed the 1st movement of Gershwin’s Concerto in F major. The judges awarded Bartholomew the silver medal of the competition that had a robust field of talented individuals.

Bartholomew began his musical journey in our Harmony Road program when he was 6 years old and currently studies piano with Teacher Larisa. He has shown exceptional talent and dedication over the years. He has already given 2 full length solo recitals, won numerous awards and scholarships over the years.

Picture 1 - Publicity photo for his 2018 solo piano recital
Picture 2 - Playing Bach at New Mozart Honors Recital 2013
Picture 3 - In Harmony Road classroom  in 2009

Claire Spence Placed 1st at US OPEN Piano Competition

Congratulations to Claire Spence who received the 1st place award at US Open Piano Competition. She competed in one of the highest solo levels and was recognized by the jurors for her pianistic talent and exquisite interpretation.

Clare is in the 8th grade at the Lycee Francais de San Francisco.  She developed a deep love of  music in Harmony Road (Toddler Tunes) which she started at 2 years old. She has continued on with Dr. Alexander studying the piano and she also sings in a nationally recognized choir.  Between piano lessons, music practice and singing, she spends 16-17 hours per week on music.  She has two sisters who play violin and cello.

Picture 1 - Claire at US Open Piano Competition 2019
Picture 2 - Claire's US Open 1st Place Certificate
Picture 3 - Claire in New Mozart's Harmony Road (Music in Me)  in 2009

Vinca Lu Placed 3rd at US Open Competition

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Congratulations to Vinca Lu who placed 3rd place at the US OPEN Piano Competition in the Open solo for Romantic composer, level 6, the highest level for open solo event.

In this competition for the most talented emerging pianists, Vinca played Chopin’s Etude #1 in F Minor from Trois Nouvelles Etudes. She also placed 4th on the showcase Piano solo Junior group (this is for the advanced students with age group requirement). She played 2 pieces: Chopin’s Valse, Op. 64 No. 2 in C# Minor and Beethoven’s Allegro from Sonata, Op. 2 No. 1 in F Minor.

Vinca is a gifted young pianist with perfect pitch who started in our Harmony Road program as a 43year old. She has aced through all the levels (skipping a few) and has been studying with Dr. Alexander who has taken her piano playing to the highest level.

She has participated in the US Open music competition in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and won 1st place every year, cross the categories of contemporary elementary level, Baroque intermediate level and mid-level open solo.

Annabel Zhao Placed 2nd Place at NATS Singing Festival

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We’re so proud of Teacher Diane’s student Annabel who participated NATS competition twice and won second place in her category in both competitions.

On Nov 3 2018, she won 2nd place in SFBAC NATS Musical Theater / CCM Competition.

On March 2 2019, she won 2nd place in SFBAC NATS Classical Competition.

Annabel is a vibrant nine year old currently in 4th grade. She loves singing and has been taking voice lessons with Teacher Diane since May 2018. In her own words, “lessons with Ms Diane are the best lessons” she has ever taken. Teacher Diane has helped her overcome her stage fright and has instilled a deeper love of music and singing.

Congratulations Annabel for all your accomplishments.

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New Mozart November Practice Challengers

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Congratulations to New Mozart November Practice Challengers for successfully completing the challenge!

Scroll down to see the full list of the November Practice Challengers. Join us in the December Practice Challenge and let’s continue to make music together!

Email info@newmozartschool.com for more info or to sign up.

New Mozart November Practice Challengers

Skye Bailey
Bartholomew Baker
Louis Belot
Alice Cavalotti
Justin Chao
Simon Chen
Penelope Cheung
Justine Chu
Wyatt Chu
Diya Contractor
Avarya Das
Dhriti Deepak
Shalin Dwivedi
Marcos Goyenechea
Austin Guydish
Emma Hahn-Harik
Aaron Ho
Vidyut Jagadish
Avni Jain
Zoe Jovanovic
Colette Kanada
Alli Katila-Miikkulainen
Anika Kaushik
Kai Knutson
Mei Knutson
Sasha Kumar
Jackson Leung
Itamar Livne-Kricheli
Annika Mao
Emma Marquardt
Emily Marquez
Elle Mathew
Iona McRitchie
Ivar McRitchie
Ella Miikkulainen-Katila
Shyam Murali
Mira Poeta
Rhea Prakash
Lucas Qiang
Clara Qiang
Leila Safa
Rohan Sangani
Matias Santisteban
Menaja Sathyaprakash
Meghna Singh
Kipling Song
Maira Srivastava
Kelly Tanaka
Marcus Tang
Vadim Titoruk
Zoe Vasilyeva
Matias Velasquez
Coco Vilcovsky
Raewen Yan
Olivia Yu
Ryan Zhu

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