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