2025 - 2026 Scholarship Recipients
Maggie Bai, 14
First Year
Newton, Massachusetts
Oak Hill Middle School
Teachers: Kanako Nishikawa
and Angel Ramon Rivera
Natalie Burr, 17
First Year
Oakland, California
Oakland School for the Arts
Teacher: Sharon Mann
Matthew Chang, 16
Third Year
Bethesda, Maryland
Walt Whitman High School
Teachers: Martin Labazevitch
and Ian Hobson
Eddison Chen, 15
Second Year
Overland Park, Kansas
Blue Valley Northwest High School
Teacher: Sean Chen
Josephine Chow, 15
First Year
Austin, Texas
Westwood High School
Teachers: Andrei Tcymbalistenko
and Alexander Malikov
Oliver Corro, 18
First Year
Fremont, California
Irvington High School
Teacher: John McCarthy
Sora Corro, 15
First Year
Fremont, California
Irvington High School
Teacher: Sandra Shen
Evan Dan, 16
First Year
Solon, Ohio
Solon High School
Teacher: Sean Schulze, Dr. Caroline Oltmanns
and Dr. Andrew Le
Anwen Deng, 16
Second Year
Berwyn, Pennsylvania
Conestoga High School
Teacher: Veda Kaplinsky
Leonardo Dinner, 14
First Year
Chatsworth, California
iLead Exploration
Teacher: Rita Hovanesian
Jonathan Doh, 15
Second Year
Irvine, California
Pacific Academy
Teacher: Rufus Choi
Lillian Feng, 19
Fourth Year
Arcadia, California
Eastman School of Music
Teacher: Marina Lomazov
Evelina Kleczek, 16
Third Year
Vienna, Virginia
Home-Schooled
Teacher: Dr. Martin Labazevitch
Cara Wan Kong, 15
First Year
Dublin, California
Dublin High School
Teacher: Hans Boepple
Andrew Lee, 15
First Year
Carmel, Indiana
Carmel High School
Teacher: Chi Ho Han
Ethan Li, 15
First Year
San Jose, California
Valley Christian High School
Teacher: Namiq Sultanov
Ian Lin, 15
First Year
South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Davidson Academy Online
Teacher: Natalie Zhu
Alexander Liu, 14
First Year
Short Hills, New Jersey
Juilliard Pre-College and
Millburn Middle School
Teacher: Orli Shaham
Matthew Liu, 18
Fourth Year
Lawrence, Kansas
Lawrence Virtual School
Piano Teacher: Jack H. Winerock
Guanjie Lu, 16
First Year
Dallas, Texas
St. Mark's School of Texas
Teacher: Alex McDonald
Benjamin Luo, 16
First Year
Apex, North Carolina
Apex High School
Teacher: Florence Ko
Ethan Mihaescu, 14
First Year
Berkley, Michigan
The Roeper School
Teacher: Catherine Rollin
Peter Parra, 14
First Year
Mountain View, California
Mountain View High School and
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College
Teacher: Corey McVicar
Masanobu Pires, 14
First Year
Sharon, Massachusetts
Walnut Hill School for the Arts
Teacher: HaeSun Paik
Xinran Shi, 15
Second Year
San Jose, California
Stanford Online High School
Teacher: Hans Boepple & Ning An
Christina Sung, 14
First Year
Millcreek, Utah
Utah Online High School
Teacher: Charlotte Hu
Meining Wu, 15
Second Year
San Jose, California
Valley Christian High School
Teacher: Hans Boepple
Kyle Yeung, 17
Third Year
Irvine, California
Pacific Academy
Teacher: Sasha Starcevich
Philina Zhang, 18
Fourth Year
New York, New York
Special Music School
Teacher: Irina Morozova
Yihan Zhang, 15
First Year
Norman, Oklahoma
Norman North High School
Teacher: Igor Lipinski & Dr. Joseph Kingma
The Chopin Foundation maintains a special fund to support scholarships, and we depend on our valued donors to help us continue this important program that inspires so many young artists. With your help, we can continue to offer even more scholarships next year.