2025 San Francisco International Piano Competition Prize Winners
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2025 Artist Category
Professional Artist (Age 19-35)
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Parker Van Ostrand currently studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Garrick Ohlsson and Yoshikazu Nagai.
In the 2024-25 season, Parker performed with the San Diego Symphony, the Sacramento Philharmonic, Symphony Parnassus, and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. Last season, he performed with the Camellia Symphony, Symphony Parnassus, the South Arkansas Symphony, the Shreveport Symphony, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra as winner of their 2023 Concerto Competition.
Parker recently won the 2023 PianoTexas Academy Concerto Competition and performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra last June. In 2022, he won the Gold Medal in the 71st Wideman International Piano Competition and in November, collaborated with Yuja Wang for a two-piano performance at the SFCM Gala. Last summer, he was selected to play in the inaugural G. Henle Verlag Murray Perahia Masterclass in Munich. He also toured with the California Youth Symphony to Eastern Europe with Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety.” In 2020, Parker won Third Prize and the Best Sonata Award in the 10th National Chopin Piano Competition.
Parker is from Sacramento, CA, and previously studied with Linda Nakagawa, Natsuki Fukasawa, Sarah Chan, and Jon Nakamatsu.
Parker Van Ostrand, USA, FIRST PRIZE
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Alexander (Sandro) Tsereteli, 24, is currently completing the Master of Musical Arts program at the Yale School of Music where he studies under the tutelage of Prof. Boris Slutsky. He has been playing the piano since the age of 4, and began his composition studies at the age of 7.
Tsereteli has performed at numerous prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center REACH and Millenium Stage, The Kosciuszko Foundation, Arena Stage, and the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Lincoln Center. In addition to his primary piano studies, Tsereteli has performed his compositions for several masterclasses and events, including artists such as the Del Sol String Quartet and the Emerson String Quartet, as well as performing his original piece, “Cycle”, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City.
Alexander Tereteli, Georgia, SECOND PRIZE
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Sunmin Kim, a pianist and composer born in South Korea, began his piano journey at the age of 10. He has studied with HaeSun Paik at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and with Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York. He has received numerous awards in prestigious piano competitions in Korea and internationally, including the Ewha Kyunghyang Competition, the Busan Music Competition, the Fou Tsong International Concerto Competition, and more.
As an active soloist, Sunmin has performed at renowned venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, and has appeared in a wide range of concert series and music festivals across the United States, Europe, and Asia. In addition to his career as a pianist, Sunmin is also an accomplished choral composer. His works have been published exclusively by leading publishers in the United States and Korea and have been premiered by various professional choirs.
https://sunminmusic.com
Sunmin Kim, South Korean, THIRD PRIZE
2025 Young Artists Categories
Young Artist (Age 18 and Under)
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Gold: Vincent Pham & Meining Wu
Silver: Heming Yu & Eric Wang
Bronze: Mia Safdie & Minna Fu
Vincent Pham, 17, Florida
Meining Wu, 17, California
Heming Yu, 17, Shanghai
Mia Safdie, 16, Chicago
Eric Wang, 17, New York
Minna Fu, 17, California
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Gold: Nina Iorik & Andrew Jacob Lee
Silver: Michael Sun & Evan Chen
Bronze: Alexander Vollmer
Nina Iorik, 15, Settle
Andrew Jacob Lee, 15, California
Evan Chen, 15, Canada
Michael Sun, 15, California
Alexander Vollmer, 15, Canada
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Gold: Isabel Feng & Karl Seyffarth
Silver: Xitong Zhao
Bronze: Cecilia Taggart & Hiroshi Corro
Isabel Feng, 12, California
Karl Seyffarth, 12, Germany
Ceclia Taggart, 11, California
Xitong Zhao, 11, Harbin
Hiroshi Corro, 12, California
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Gold: Emily Tianru Jin & Fiona Weng
Silver: Shawn Qian Song & Avaline Wang
Bronze: August Zhou & Hana Dormer
Emily Tianru Jin, 10, Boston
Fiona Weng, 10
Shawn Qian Song, 10, New York
Avaline Wang, 11, California
Hana Dormer, 11, California
August Zhou, 10, Washington
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Gold: Natalie Sun & Aiden Zhou
Silver: Adelynn Li
Bronze: Amy Xie & Zoey Xu
Natalie Sun, 9, Utah
Amy Xie, 9, California
Aiden Zhou, 9, New York
Adelynn Li, 9, California
Zoey Xu, 8, California
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Gold: Simone Chai
Silver: Evelyn Hua
Bronze: Lily Xu, Allison Chan
Simone Chai, 7, California
Evelyn Hua, 7, California
Lily Xu, 6, New York
Allison Chan, 6, California
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Gold: Ellery Lung
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Gold: Ellery Lung
Ellery Lung, 5, California