2025 Finalists

Amsterdam - Evan Butler - Tallahassee, FL - age 16

The Overthinker - Amy Chen - Potomac, MD - age 16

Rhythm Section - Tyler Cummins - Manchester, MA - age 17

Off Rondo - Edith Goble - Berkeley, CA - age 16

Commute to SF - Dylan Hall - Albany, CA - age 17

Plunk - Jackson Hollo - Myrtle Beach, SC - age 18

Soliloquy in Three Voices - Abigail Huang - Harmony, FL - age 15

Jetlag - Yiming Jia - San Ramon, CA - age 18

Water Makes Many Beds II - Olex Donghao Li - Princeton, NJ - age 16

Elegy for Lost Time - Skye Neal - Lake Oswego, OR - age 15

Tuba Mirum - Harlan Olsen - Fremont, CA - age 14

Binary Rhythms - Finn Reese - Menlo Park, CA - age 17

Moringa - Aadit Shrivastava - Short Hills, NJ - age 17

Hiemal Whispers - Carter Smith - Ausin, TX - age 17

Due Frivolezze - James Teti - Princeton, NJ - age 16

I Think We Just Saw Saturn - Mia Turakhia - Hillsborough, CA - age 14

Clarinet Quartet - Vybhav Velamoor - Sharon, MA - age 16

Joshua Tree - Zoe Verduin - Hastings Hudson, NY - age 15

Old Gold Over White - Lucia Vysohlid - Niskayuna, NY - age 18

On Miracles and Wonders – Sara Agee – Nashville, TN – age 16

Of Nature’s Poems and Birdsongs Sweet – Calvin Aleson – Winter Springs, FL – age 15

Maldoror – Blair Blake – Baltimore, MD – age 18

Boardwalk Escapades – Luke Brand – Canonsburg, PA – age 17

Unravel – Princeton Brooks – Walterboro, SC – age 16

Al-Sahra – Euan Dandurand – Lancaster, CA – age 18

Cascading Skies – Sarina Feng – San Diego, CA – age 17

YAGA – Joseph Fowler – League City, TX – age 18

Kaleidoscope – Henry Golden – Bethesda, MD – age 16

An Open Window – Hudson Holland – Murphy, NY – age 18

Vienna Forever (Wein fur immer) – Brady Jacobs – Clackamas, OR – age 14

Echoes Beyond the Horizon – Angela Jin – Andover, MA – age 17

Adrift – Alex Landry – Round Rock, TX – age 14

Above a Cerulean Sea – Elias Lazaga-Lucila – Elkridge, MD – age 16

Nature Suite, Movement I, Aurora Borealis – Jeffrey Li – Morris Plains, NJ – age 15

Harmony in Conflict – James Liang – Austin, TX – age 17

When Stories Come to Life – Cynthia Liu – Austin, TX – age 17

Fairy’s Return – Elaine Liu – Austin, TX – age 15

Carnival – Michael Rodriguez – New York, NY – age 18

Cambrian Explosion – Ignacio Rosado – New York, NY – age 18

The Owl has Seen All – Cyrano Rosentrater – Philadelphia, PA – age 18

Dream Logic – Asher Schmidt – Memphis, TN – age 14

Greta Prozor’s Blue Cat with her Red Fishes – Andrew Schneider – Galena, OH – age 18

Tarantula Tarantella – Winston Schneider – Omaha, NE – age 17

Color Splash – Keerat Sharma – Tahoe Vista, CA – age 13

A Hecatean Moon – Lance Sitton – Friendswood, TX – age 16

Bizaan – Luke Soneral – Waconia, MN – age 17

Condor – Jakob Stinson – Riverview, FL – age 16

Celestial Solitude – Maxim Strong – Riverside, CA – age 18

A=440 – Billy Waldman – Redondo Beach, CA – age 18

Where the Flock Disappeared – Ho Sen Ken Xiao - Ladera Ranch, CA – age 15