2024 Finalists

The finalists are listed below in last name alphabetical order. This order does not imply relative ratings. Every finalist deserves the highest accolades for their tremendous achievement in compositional excellence.

Ensemble

XTC (Xanadu Tristesse Concinnity) - Blair Blake - Doylestown, PA - age 17

A Memoire of the Poppy Fields - Euan Dandurand - Lancaster, CA - age 17

Interrupted - Leo Egen - Kalamazoo, MI - age 17

Flute Prelude No. 1 - Marilyn Gans - Batavia, IL - age 17

Journey of a Mountain Goat - Hudson Holland - Cape Coral, FL - age 17

Nocturne (Night-time music for children) - Brady Jacobs - Clackamas, OR - age 13

Moonlit Night - Jeffrey Li - Morris Plains, NJ - age 14

Happiness on Earth - Elaine Liu - Austin, TX - age 14

Season Finale - Skye Neal - Lake Oswego, OR - age 14

Tensions and Tones - Zachary Richardson - Marlborough, MA - age 17

Superbloom - Aadit Shrivastava - Short Hills, NJ - age 16

Dance of the Bilge Rats - Luke Soneral - Waconia, MN - age 16

Echoes of the Jungle - Mia Turakhia - Hillsborough, CA - age 13

String Quartet in A Minor Movement 4 - Vybhav Velamoor - Sharon, MA - age 15

Ripples - Zoe Verduin - Hastings on Hudson, NY - age 14

Villanelle - Billy Waldman - Redondo Beach, CA - age 17

Rumination - Andrew Xu - Chappaqua, NY - age 17

Full Orchestra

Capricci Largo - Calvin Aleson - Winter Springs, FL - age 14

Fugitive Shadow - Sophia Kunxu Dou - New York, NY - age 16

Duskendale Overture - Joseph Fowler - League City, TX - age 17

Humoresque in F Major - Christian Garnes - Huntington, WV - age 18

Variations for Orchestra - Henry Golden - Bethesda, MD - age 15

Resonance - A Fanfare for Orchestra - Ethan Hsu - Penn Valley, PA - age 15

A Shimmer in the Burgeoning Blue - Yiming Jia - San Ramon, CA - age 17

Mother Earth Movement VII - Antarctica - Gabriel Elias Lazaga-Lucila - Elkridge, MD - age 15

When Indigo Grew Atop a Cloud - Fabian Leung - Murphy, TX - age 18

Phobos and Deimos - Adam Menicucci - Wilmington, DE - age 16

April Sunshine - Grant Qu - Austin, TX - age 14

Caprice for Orchestra - Asher Schmidt - Memphis, TN - age 13

Chester’s Frog - Andrew Schneider - Galena, OH - age 17

Uropygi - Winston Schneider - Omaha, NE - age 16

Intimations of Immortality - Caleb Sharkey - New York, NY - age 17

Fulgurite - Elias Valle - Glendora, CA - age 18

Two lines converge into a vanishing point off-center - Charlie Zhong - Brookline, MA - age 17