Junior Performance National Finalists

2024–2025

Piano

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
Ethan Mihaescu	Michigan	East Central	Catherine Rollin
Hudson Dong	New Jersey	Eastern	Stella Xu
Zachary Cheng	Oregon	Northwest	Renato Fabbro
Lucas Pei	Texas	South Central	Marcy McDonald
Kaiden Lee	Georgia	Southern	Liza Stepanova
Christina Sung	Utah	Southwest	Jihea Hong-Park
Ella Wan	Minnesota	West Central	Alexander Braginsky

String

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
Daniel Liu	Michigan	East Central	Eun-song Koh/Malcolm Lowe
Maxwell Brown	Delaware	Eastern	Brian Lewis
Winston Yu	Washington	Northwest	Kevin Krentz
Elim Wong	Texas	South Central	Eun-song Koh
Lauren Kang	Alabama	Southern	Sheryl Staples
Natalie Xu	California	Southwest	Yuki Mori
Charis Shing	Missouri	West Central	Joo Kim

Woodwind

Entrant	State	Division	Teacher
Haylee Kulak	Michigan	East Central	Henning Schroeder
Jianing Liu	New Jersey	Eastern	Amy Tu
Marilyn Ruthruff	Oregon	Northwest	Sydney Carlson
Grace Li	Texas	South Central	Monica Song
Celina Park	Georgia	Southern	Katherine Emeneth
Molly Pickett	Utah	Southwest	Cindy Henderson
Ziva Ye	Kansas	West Central	Zachary Shemon