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Awards of Excellence are presented to the most outstanding solo performers at the Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels in Piano, Strings, Voice, and Instrumental categories, as chosen by their adjudicators. Senior and Junior awards have been determined since 2006 and the Intermediate level was added in 2024. Prior to 2006 the Festival named Senior and Junior Stars of the Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SENIOR<\/th><\/tr>
<\/td>Piano <\/td>Voice<\/td>Strings<\/td>Wind<\/td><\/tr>
2025<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td> <\/td>Jillian Zhang<\/td> <\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Haokai Xuan<\/td>Samantha Fullerton<\/td>William Fry<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Ad\u00e8le LeBlanc<\/td>Samantha Fullerton<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Samantha Fullerton<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>James Farhoud-Watt<\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Caroline Vanicek<\/td>Sarah MacLoon<\/td>Bianca Cruz<\/td>Charles Gagn\u00e9<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Ad\u00e8le LeBlanc<\/td>Sarah MacLoon<\/td>Gerry Zhang<\/td>Charles Gagn\u00e9<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Yan-Ru Chen<\/td>Sarah MacLoon<\/td>Alicia Ingalls<\/td>Nadia Ingalls<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>Thomas Cardoso-Grant<\/td>M\u00e9lanie Dupuis<\/td>Chelsea Anh<\/td>Peter Ball<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Luke Noftall<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Nadia Ingalls<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>Chelsea Anh<\/td>Luke Noftall<\/td>Jinwon Jang<\/td>Yong Hyun Ryan Kim<\/td><\/tr>
2014<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Jack Ball<\/td>Sienna Minkyong Cho<\/td>Sung Ho David Kwon<\/td><\/tr>
2013<\/td>Thomas Nicholson<\/td>Connor MacDonald<\/td>Sienna Minkyong Cho<\/td>Sung Ho David Kwon<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>Keol Woo<\/td>David Smith<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Ryan Legere<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>Gina Hyunmin Lee<\/td>Taylor White<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Jason Hwang<\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/td>Jeremy VanSlyke<\/td>Meghan Thompson<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Andy Lee<\/td><\/tr>
2009<\/td>Jeremy VanSlyke<\/td>Meghan Thompson<\/td>Matthieu Deveau<\/td>Giyong Cho<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/td>Julie Choi<\/td>Anne Lebans<\/td>Samuel Yoon<\/td>Jaekwon Chong<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/td>Jeremy VanSlyke<\/td>Jayani Abeysekera<\/td>Jayani Abeysekera<\/td>Trina Du<\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Jeremy VanSlyke<\/td>Rebecca Topp<\/td>Jae Yong Chong<\/td>Trina Du<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
INTERMEDIATE<\/th><\/tr>
<\/td>Piano<\/td>Voice<\/td>Strings<\/td>Wind<\/td><\/tr>
2025<\/td>Deron Qu<\/td>Caileigh Sullivan<\/td>Daniela Vivas<\/td>Jia Fei Ya Shen<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Benjamin Gray<\/td>Caileigh Sullivan<\/td>Jillian Zhang<\/td>Jia Fei Ya Shen<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
JUNIOR<\/th><\/tr>
<\/td>Piano<\/td>Voice<\/td>Strings<\/td>Wind<\/td><\/tr>
2025<\/td>Mia Yang<\/td>Clarita Kreidi<\/td>Diego Vivas<\/td>Teresa Chen<\/td><\/tr>
2024<\/td>Deron Qu<\/td>Joanna Dinan<\/td>Alexander Arnold<\/td>Teresa Chen<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Renlin Yang<\/td>Joanna Dinan<\/td>Daniela Vivas<\/td>Teresa Chen<\/td><\/tr>
2022<\/td>Neve Elrain Quismundo<\/td>Elizabeth Harper<\/td>Lilly Wood<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2021<\/td>Tyler Shang<\/td>Gillian Butler<\/td>Jillian Zhang<\/td><\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td>Muriel Falkenstein<\/td>Bolin Shi<\/td>James Farhoud-Watt<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td>Augusta Downey<\/td>Angela Cai<\/td>James Farhoud-Watt<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>Helen Chengrong Li<\/td>F\u00e9lix Turgeon<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td>James Farhoud-Watt<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>Matthew Snell<\/td>Rose Messenger<\/td>Maggie Zheng<\/td>Kelly Song<\/td><\/tr>
2015<\/td>Doris He<\/td>Rose Messenger<\/td>Helen Chengrong Li<\/td>Gabriel You<\/td><\/tr>
2014<\/td>Amanda Zhang<\/td>Brianna Corey<\/td>Maggie Kerr<\/td>Jacob Martin<\/td><\/tr>
2013<\/td>Leo Cui<\/td>Olivia LaPointe<\/td>Leo Cui<\/td>Nadia Ingalls<\/td><\/tr>
2012<\/td>\u00c9rica Jomphe<\/td>Luke Noftall<\/td>Alicia Ingalls<\/td>Lavallee Forbes<\/td><\/tr>
2011<\/td>\u00c9rica Jomphe<\/td>Brianna Corey<\/td>Jimyung Jang<\/td>Sung Ho (David) Kwon<\/td><\/tr>
2010<\/td>Vivian Ni<\/td>Alexandre Gagn\u00e9<\/td>Jesse Kim<\/td>Heenjin Jee<\/td><\/tr>
2009<\/td>Alexandre Gagn\u00e9<\/td>Connor MacDonald<\/td>Kihoon Choi<\/td>Joseph Park<\/td><\/tr>
2008<\/td>Juliane Bischoff<\/td>Alexandre Gagn\u00e9<\/td>Connor MacDonald<\/td>Julie Choi<\/td><\/tr>
2007<\/td>Joshua Liu<\/td>Meghan Thompson<\/td>Joshua Liu<\/td>JunSu Ku<\/td><\/tr>
2006<\/td>Joshua Liu<\/td>Meghan Thompson<\/td>Joshua Liu<\/td>Michael Valk<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awards of Excellence are presented to the most outstanding solo performers at the Junior, Intermediate and Senior levels in Piano, Strings, Voice, and Instrumental categories, as chosen by their adjudicators. Senior and Junior awards have been determined since 2006 and the Intermediate level was added in 2024. Prior to 2006 the Festival named Senior and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frederictonmusicfestival.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}