Previous Winners
2015 Adult Performance Competition Winners
1st Place: Jesus Serrano
2nd Place: Stephen Lochbaum
3rd Place: Tal Hurwitz
4th Place: Stefan Koim
2015 Youth Performance Competition Winners
Senior Division
1st Place: Kathleen Cho
2nd Place: Javier Cartin
3rd Place: Benjamin Gascon
4th Place: Dmitry Ilin
Junior Division
1st Place: Chase Schallen
2nd Place: Anya Zions
3rd Place: Robert Wang
4th Place: William Kandle
2015 Composition Competition Winners
1st place: “Beyond Lilith” by Melody Eötvös (an Australian composer currently residing in Bloomington, Indiana); melodyeotvos.com.au
Honorable Mention: “The Unicorn in the Garden” by Alec Roth (Malvern, Worcestershire, England); www.alecroth.com
Honorable Mention: “Répéter” by Paulo Rios Filho (Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil); www.pauloriosfilho.com
2014 Performance Competition Winners
1st Place – Xavier Jara (United States — Residing in Paris)
2nd Place – Lazhar Cherouana (France — Residing in Salzburg)
3rd Place – Tal Hurwitz (Israel — Residing in Salzburg)
2014 Composition Competition Winners
1st place – “Obsession” by Viet P. Cuong (Princeton, New Jersey)
Honorable Mention – “Nocturnal and Presto” by Nejc Kuhar (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Honorable Mention – “Naxos Suite” by Yorgos Nousis (Vienna, Austria)
2013 Performance Competition Winners
1st place – Steven C. Cowan
2nd place – Tal Hurwitz
3rd place – Joseph Palmer
2013 Composition Competition Winners
1st place – Improvvisazioni by Marco De Biasi (Veneto, Italy)
Honorable Mention – 5 Impromptus for Guitar by José Mora-Jiminez (The Netherlands)
Honorable Mention – Zia: La Loba y Zozobra by Joseph Williams (Austin, Texas)
2012 Performance Competition Winners
1st place – Chad Ibison
2nd place – Piotr Pakhomkin
3rd place (tie) – Adam Kossler and Edgar Ivan Resendiz
2012 Composition Competition Winners
1st place – Catarsis by Saúl Chapela Díaz (Moanha, Spain)
Honorable mention: Garden of Dreams by Adam Borecki (Orange, California)
Honorable mention: Black Hole by Nejc Kuhar (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2011 Performance Competition Winners
1st place – Edel Muñoz
2nd place – Jérôme Mouffe
3rd place – Alexander Milovanov
2011 Composition Competition Winners
1st place – Sonatina for guitar solo by Jonathan Godfrey (Bloomington, Indiana)
Honorable mention: Lila. Star. Bird. by Ying-Chen Kao (Baltimore, Maryland)
Honorable mention: Sequenza by Marek Pasieczny (Zamosc, Poland)
Honorable mention: Reminisce by Luis Nieto Sachica (Bogotá, Colombia, living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
2010 Adult Performance Competition Winners
1st place: Artyom Dervoed (Russia)
2nd place and special prize for interpretation of American music: Thomas Maillet (Belgium)
3rd place: You Wang (China)
4th place: David Ross (USA)
2010 Youth Performance Competition Winners
1st place: John-Marcel Williams (USA)
2nd place: Ji Yeon Kim (Korea)
3rd place: Alec Holcomb (USA)
2009 Adult Performance Competition Winners
1st place: Pedro Mateo González
2nd place: Raúl Reyes Hernández
3rd place: Nemanja Ostojic
4th place: Laura Klemke
Interpretation Prize for music from a Mexican composer: Raúl Reyes Hernández
2009 Youth Performance Competition Winners
1st place: Bernardino Rodríguez Espejo
2nd place: Matar-Itai Batyonathan
3rd place: Kyle Comer
2009 Composition Competition Winners
1st place: Milonga Today by Bruno Clemente, Cavallaro, Argentina
2nd place: Tres Tientos by Jose Mora-Jimenez, Netherlands
3rd place: By Shadow By Light by Omid Zoufonoun, Oakland, CA, USA
Honorable Mention: Recreation by Eva Kara, Hungary
2008 Adult Performance Competition Winners
1st place: Cecilio Perera
2nd place: Isaac Bustos
3rd place: Yuri Liberzon
4th place: Jonathan Dotson
2008 Youth Performance Competition Winners
1st place: Chaconne Klaverenga
2nd place: Alexina Aron
3rd place: Yaodi Hu
2008 Composition Competition Winners
1st prize: Tal Hurwitz (Israel) - Sonata
2nd prize: Nicos Troullos (Cyprus) - Rondo
3rd prize: Matthew Van Brink (New York, NY) - Prelude miniatures
Honorable Mention: Mark Small (Foxboro, MA) - Beneath the lowering sky
Honorable Mention: Mohammed Fairouz (Watertown, MA) - Airs
