SCHOLARSHIPS

Past Scholars

Every pianist supported by the Foundation since 2009. This year’s class is on the Scholarships page.

Prizewinner, National Chopin Piano Competition Competed in the National Chopin Piano Competition

2025–26

30 recipients · 2 went on to the National Competition

Maggie Bai

Newton, MA

First Year

Teacher: Kanako Nishikawa and Angel Ramon Rivera

Natalie Burr

Oakland, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sharon Mann

Matthew Chang

Bethesda, MD

Third Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch and Ian Hobson

Eddison Chen

Overland Park, KS

Second Year

Teacher: Sean Chen

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Josephine Chow

Austin, TX

First Year

Teacher: Andrei Tcymbalistenko and Alexander Malikov

Oliver Corro

Fremont, CA

First Year

Teacher: John McCarthy

Sora Corro

Fremont, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sandra Shen

Evan Dan

Solon, OH

First Year

Teacher: Sean Schulze, Dr. Caroline Oltmanns and Dr. Andrew Le

Anwen Deng

Berwyn, PA

Second Year

Teacher: Veda Kaplinsky

Leonardo Dinner

Chatsworth, CA

First Year

Teacher: Rita Hovanesian

Jonathan Doh

Irvine, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Rufus Choi

Lillian Feng

Arcadia, CA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Marina Lomazov

Evelina Kleczek

Vienna, VA

Third Year

Teacher: Dr. Martin Labazevitch

Cara Wan Kong

Dublin, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Andrew Lee

Carmel, IN

First Year

Teacher: Chi Ho Han

Ethan Li

San Jose, CA

First Year

Teacher: Namiq Sultanov

Ian Lin

South Kingstown, RI

First Year

Teacher: Natalie Zhu

Alexander Liu

Short Hills, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Orli Shaham

Matthew Liu

Lawrence, KS

Fourth Year

Teacher: Jack H. Winerock

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Guanjie Lu

Dallas, TX

First Year

Teacher: Alex McDonald

Benjamin Luo

Apex, NC

First Year

Teacher: Florence Ko

Ethan Mihaescu

Berkley, MI

First Year

Teacher: Catherine Rollin

Peter Parra

Mountain View, CA

First Year

Teacher: Corey McVicar

Masanobu Pires

Sharon, MA

First Year

Teacher: HaeSun Paik

Xinran Shi

San Jose, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Christina Sung

Millcreek, UT

First Year

Teacher: Charlotte Hu

Meining Wu

San Jose, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Kyle Yeung

Irvine, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Sasha Starcevich

Philina Zhang

New York, NY

Fourth Year

Teacher: Irina Morozova

Yihan Zhang

Norman, OK

First Year

Teacher: Dr. Igor Lipinski & Dr. Joseph Kingma

2024–25

28 recipients · 5 went on to the National Competition

Eunha Basu

Bedford, MA

First Year

Teacher: HaeSun Paik & Mila Filatova

Cobie Buckmire

New York, NY

First Year

Teacher: Irina Morozova

Jeremy Cao

Fort Lee, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

Michelle Cao

Bellevue, WA

First Year

Teacher: Dr. Sasha Starcevich

Matthew Chang

Bethesda, MD

Second Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Eddison Chen

Overland Park, KS

First Year

Teacher: Sean Chen

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Audrey Cui

Bellevue, WA

First Year

Teacher: Adam Aleksander

Anwen Deng

Berwyn, PA

First Year

Teacher: Veda Kaplinsky

Jonathan Doh

Irvine, CA

First Year

Teacher: Rufus Choi

Lewis Fang

Hopewell, NJ

Second Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

William Ge

Chester Springs, PA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Jonathan Bass and Dang Thai Son

★ 5th Prize · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Roger Guo

Exeter, NH

First Year

Teacher: Jung Mi Lee & John McCarthy

May Hachiya

New York, NY

First Year

Teacher: Miyoko Lotto

Antoni Kleczek

Vienna, VA

Second Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Evelina Kleczek

Vienna, VA

Second Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Nini Lei

Irvine, CA

First Year

Teacher: Ning An

Jiajing Liang

Cupertino, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Brian Lin

Fremont, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Matthew Liu

Lawrence, KS

Third Year

Teacher: Jack H. Winerock

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Ryan Lu

Englewood Cliffs, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Stella Xu

Raditya Muljadi

Parker, CO

First Year

Teacher: Jasmine Steadman

Xinran Shi

San Jose, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Celicia Thendean

Pleasanton, CA

First Year

Teacher: Ilana Vered

Meining Wu

San Jose, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Keliang Yao

Lebanon, OH

Second Year

Teacher: Logan Skelton

Kyle Yeung

Irvine, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Sasha Starcevich

Nathaniel Zhang

Folsom, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sasha Starcevich

★ 3rd Prize · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Philina Zhang

New York, NY

Third Year

Teacher: Irina Morozova

2023–24

25 recipients · 2 went on to the National Competition

Anna Bray

Sterling, VA

Second Year

Teacher: Alexander Shtarkman

Jerry Chang

St. Louis, MO

Second Year

Teacher: Zena Ilyashov and Sasha Starcevich

Matthew Chang

Bethesda, MD

First Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Munan Cheng

San Jose, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sharon Mann

Ariel Chien

Menlo Park, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Sandra Wright Shen and Daniel Chen

Lewis Fang

Hopewell, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

Grace Feng

Folsom, CA

First Year

Teacher: Ilana Vered and Carol Chuang

Lillian Feng

Arcadia, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Dr.Vanessa Fadial

William Ge

Chester Springs, PA

Third Year

Teacher: Ya-Fei Chuang and John Perry

★ 5th Prize · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Enni Harlan

Los Angeles, CA

First Year

Teacher: Bernadene Blaha

Erik Jacoby

New Albany, OH

First Year

Teacher: Nina Polonsky, Kathleen Sadoff

Antoni Kleczek

Vienna, VA

First Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Evelina Kleczek

Vienna, VA

First Year

Teacher: Martin Labazevitch

Malvyn Lai

San Diego, CA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Ning An

Brian Lin

Fremont, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Tom Liu

Saint James, NY

Third Year

Teacher: Yoheved Kaplinsky

Norman Lu

Newton, MA

First Year

Teacher: Ya-Fei Chuang, Alexander Korsantia

Chloe Park

Fort Wayne, IN

First Year

Teacher: Hamilton Tescarollo

Victoria Park

Cambridge, MA

First Year

Teacher: A. Ramon Rivera and Jeanie Lee

Kento Sugiyama

Iowa City, IA

First Year

Teacher: Jack Winerock and Feilin Lin Murray

Sophia Suwiryo

Mason, OH

First Year

Teacher: Alvin Chow, Takako Hayase Frautschi

Nachuan Tao

Philadelphia, PA

Third Year

Teacher: Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Daniel Wang

Simi Valley, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Micah Yui

Keliang Yao

Lebanon, OH

First Year

Teacher: Soyeon Kate Lee

Kyle Yeung

Irvine, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sasha Starcevich

2022–23

23 recipients · 3 went on to the National Competition

Anna Bray

Sterling, VA

First Year

Teacher: Alexander Shtarkman

Carey Byron

Corona, CA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Ning An

Jerry Chang

St. Louis, MO

First Year

Teacher: Zena Ilyashov and Sasha Starcevich

Crystal Cheng

Cupertino, CA

First Year

Teacher: John McCarthy and Rose Chen

Ariel Chien

Menlo Park, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Sandra Wright Shen and Daniel Cheng

Lillian Feng

Arcadia, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Dr. Vanessa Fadial

Alyssa Gabrilovich

Villanova, PA

Third Year

Teacher: Dr. Igor Resnianski

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

William Ge

Chester Springs, PA

Second Year

Teacher: Ya-Fei Chuang and John Perry

★ 5th Prize · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

John Kim

Lexington, MA

First Year

Teacher: Max Levinson

Malvyn Lai

San Diego, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Ning An

Brian Lin

Fremont, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Katherine E. Liu

Wellesley, MA

Fourth Year

Teacher: HaeSun Paik

Matthew Liu

Lawrence, KS

Second Year

Teacher: Jack Winerock

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Tom Liu

Saint James, NY

Second Year

Teacher: Yoheved Kaplinsky and Yi-Heng Yang

Jason Nam

Bothell, WA

First Year

Teacher: Allan Park

Hyeonuk Park

Lexington, MA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen

Kasey Shao

Cincinnati, OH

Fourth Year

Teacher: Ran Dank

Justin Sun

Spring, TX

First Year

Teacher: Robert Roux

Nachuan Tao

Philadelphia, PA

Second Year

Teacher: John Owings and Ignat Solzhenitsyn

Josetta Wang

West Palm Beach, FL

First Year

Teacher: Michael Ruiz and Ruo Huang-Balko

Keyi Wang

New York, NY

First Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

Cory Wu

Powell, OH

Second Year

Teacher: Kathleen Sadoff and Nina Polonsky

Philina Zhang

New York, NY

Second Year

Teacher: Irina Morozova

2021–22

28 recipients · 4 went on to the National Competition

Carey Byron

Brea, CA

Third Year

Teacher: Ning An

Ariel Chien

Menlo Park, CA

First Year

Teacher: Sandra Wright Shen

Son Duong

Potomac, MD

First Year

Teacher: Yong Hi Moon

Lillian Feng

Arcadia, CA

First Year

Teacher: Dr. Vanessa Fadial

Alyssa Gabrilovich

Villanova, PA

Second Year

Teacher: Igor Resnianski

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

William Ge

Wayne, PA

First Year

Teacher: John Perry and Natalie Zhu

★ 5th Prize · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Andrew Gu

Basking Ridge, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

Madeleine Hehn

Media, PA

First Year

Teacher: Sandrine Erdely-Sayo

Caroline Hsu

Woodbury, NY

Third Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

James Kim

Lexington, MA

Second Year

Teacher: Max Levinson

Malvyn Lai

San Diego, CA

Second Year

Teacher: Ning An

Katherine E. Liu

Wellesley, MA

Third Year

Teacher: HaeSun Paik

Matthew Liu

Lawrence, KS

First Year

Teacher: Jack Winerock

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Tom Liu

Saint James, NY

First Year

Teacher: Veda Kaplinsky and Yi-Heng Yang

Hyeonuk Park

Brookline, MA

Third Year

Teacher: Hung-Kuan Chen and Tema Blackstone

Matthew Phan

Jacksonville, FL

First Year

Teacher: Peggy Edwards

Kasey Shao

Cincinnati, OH

Third Year

Teacher: Ran Dank

Christopher Shin

Cherry Hill, NJ

Second Year

Teacher: Veda Zuponcic

Yejin Song

Saratoga, CA

First Year

Teacher: Hans Boepple

Mi-Hyun Suh

Rowland Heights, CA

First Year

Teacher: Kevin Fitz-Gerald

Haruki Takeuchi

Knoxville, TN

First Year

Teacher: Dr. David Northington

Nachuan Tao

Fort Worth, TX

First Year

Teacher: John Owings

Daniel Wang

Simi Valley, CA

First Year

Teacher: Micah Yui

Max Wang

Plainsboro, NJ

First Year

Teacher: Susan Starr

Cory Wu

Powell, OH

First Year

Teacher: Kathleen Sadoff and Nina Polonsky

Naomi Yamaguchi

Acton, MA

Fourth Year

Teacher: Luba Pyatkovskaya

Madison Yan

Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Third Year

Teacher: Kevin Kenner and Santiago Rodriguez

Competed · 2025National Chopin Piano Competition

Philina Zhang

New York, NY

First Year

Teacher: Irina Morozova

2009–10 through 2020–21

Earlier recipients.

Listed alphabetically by last name, with the years each pianist held a scholarship. ★ marks a prizewinner at the National Chopin Piano Competition.

A

  • Cameron Akioka 2016–17
  • Rolando Alejandro 2016–18
  • Mikowai Ashwill 2012–13

B

  • Carey Byron 2019–23

C

  • Trenton Chang 2014–16
  • Connie Chen 2011–13
  • John Chen 2010–12
  • Emily Cho 2018–19
  • Gabrielle Chou 2011–13

D

  • Eriko Darcy 2017–18
  • Kimiko Darcy 2019–21
  • Michael Davidman 2012–16
  • Jia Ling Diau 2017–18
  • Stephanie Ding Draughon 2017–19

F

  • Kyle Fang 2016–17
  • Eliza Folkert 2018–19

G

  • Alyssa Gabrilovich 2020–23 Competed, 2025
  • Avery Gagliano 2016–20 ★ 1st Prize, 2020
  • Misha Galant 2013–15 Competed, 2020
  • Eric Gan 2017–21
  • Ziyao "Chelsea" Guo 2016–20 ★ 5th Prize, 2020

H

  • Anna Han 2013–14 Competed, 2015
  • Kimberly Han 2016–20
  • Kimberly Hou 2010–11
  • Caroline Hsu 2019–22
  • Arden Hu 2011–12
  • Melody Huang 2009–12

J

  • Leo Jergovic 2019–20
  • Leslie Jin 2018–19

K

  • Leyla Kabuli 2016–17
  • Azalea Kelley 2018–19
  • Eloise Kim 2009–10
  • James Kim 2020–22
  • Jillian Kim 2011–12
  • Hugo Kitano 2010–13 Competed, 2015
  • Niklas Kniesche 2016–17
  • Ruta Kuzmickas 2011–12

L

  • Christina Lai 2010–11
  • Malvyn Lai 2020–24
  • Evan Lee 2013–14
  • Ryan Leung 2017–19
  • Andrew Lin 2016–17
  • Victor Lin 2014–15
  • Albert Liu 2009–12
  • Briana Liu 2013–14
  • Jessie Liu 2018–19
  • Kate Liu 2011–13
  • Katherine E. Liu 2019–23
  • Katie Liu 2017–21 Competed, 2020
  • Vincent Liu 2016–17
  • Ishan Loomba 2016–19

M

  • Angeline Ma 2017–21 ★ 4th Prize, 2025
  • Amanda Mac 2015–16
  • Weston Mizumoto 2010–11
  • Evelyn Mo 2014–15

N

  • Valerie Narumi 2015–16
  • Vien Nguyen 2009–10
  • Issay Niki 2018–20

O

  • Evren Ozel 2014–17, 2018–19 ★ 2nd Prize, 2020

P

  • Phoebe Pan 2013–14
  • Hyeonuk Park 2019–23
  • Drew Petersen 2009–13

Q

  • Kadar Qian 2012–16
  • Jonathan Qin 2020–21
  • Nita Qiu 2017–20

R

  • Christopher Richardson 2013–14, 2015–16 Competed, 2020
  • Rafael Riera 2011–12
  • Anthony Rueda 2011–12

S

  • David Sacks 2015–16
  • Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner 2011–14
  • Amber Scherer 2014–15
  • John Schindler 2014–16
  • Kasey Shao 2019–23
  • Rhed Shi 2010–13 Competed, 2010
  • Jun Shimada 2020–21
  • Christopher Shin 2020–22
  • Victor Shlyakhtenko 2016–20 Competed, 2020
  • Clayton Stephenson 2014–15

T

  • Hanson Tam 2012–13
  • William Tang 2016–18
  • Andrew J. Tung 2009–10
  • Luke Turner 2020–21

W

  • Junhao Wang 2019–21
  • Taylor Wang 2016–17
  • Weian Wang 2012–13
  • Clara Belle Wrolstad 2020–21

X

  • Nancy Yinan Xie 2009–10
  • Anqi Xu 2016–18
  • Samuel Xu 2016–20

Y

  • Ana Yam 2017–18
  • Naomi Yamaguchi 2018–22
  • Madison Yan 2019–22 Competed, 2025
  • Erin Yu 2020–21

Z

  • Natalie Zhang 2020–21
  • Jonathan Zheng 2020–21
  • Ashley Zhou 2010–11
  • Felix Zhu 2019–20
  • Lewis Zou 2014–16