Dear Competitors, Teachers and Parents, 

Thank you for your outstanding performances in this year’s competitions. We regret not being able to hear you in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but appreciate your participation in the online finals during this unprecedented time. It is a great honor to be a finalist in the MTNA Competitions, as typically more than 2,000 talented students from across the country enter each year. 

MTNA thanks the following organizations for their generous sponsorship of the MTNA Junior Performance Competitions. 

MTNA produced a commemorative competition program book for competitors and conference attendees.  A digital version of this program will be available by March 13 on the competitions section of the MTNA website

This year, we had an excellent panel of judges from whom you will be receiving comments in the coming days. To find out more about them, please view the alphabetical listing of judges in the digital competition program book. 

It now gives me great pleasure to recognize the Junior Performance Competition winners and finalists below: 

MTNA JUNIOR NATIONAL WINNERS 2021

Piano

Entrant

Instrument

State

Division

Teacher

First Place

David Choi

Piano

TX

SC

Alex & Marcy McDonald

Second Place

Roxane Park

Piano

NH

E

Mila Filatova

Third Place

Nolan Tu

Piano

OR

NW

Renato Fabbro

Finalist

Aaron Wang

Piano

MI

EC

Catherine Rollin

Finalist

Haruki Takeuchi

Piano

TN

S

David Northington

Finalist

Ryan Wang

Piano

CA

SW

Hans Boepple

Finalist

Matthew Liu

Piano

KS

WC

Jack Winerock

CHOPIN

Roxane Park

Piano

NH

E

Mila Filatova

String

Entrant

Instrument

State

Division

Teacher

First Place

Corina Deng

Violin

OH

EC

Jan Sloman

Second Place

Joshua Kovac

Cello

TN

S

Daniel Veis

Third Place

Hannah Jeong

Cello

TX

SC

Brinton Smith

Finalist

Ayaan Ahmad

Violin

MA

E

Jan Sloman

Finalist

Mathis Selden

Cello

OR

NW

Valdine Mishkin

Finalist

Rachel Gardner

Violin

AZ

SW

Simon James

Finalist

Eric Chen

Violin

MO

WC

Pavel Ilyashov

Woodwind

Entrant

Instrument

State

Division

Teacher

First Place

Reina Shim

Flute

TX

SC

Monica Song

Second Place

Katherine Fang

Flute

NJ

E

Joseph Lu

Third Place

Hannah Cho

Oboe

CA

SW

Victoria Lee

Finalist

Lauren Huber

Flute

OR

NW

Sandy Norman

Finalist

Grant Peng

Flute

GA

S

Angela Jones-Reus

Finalist

Lucy Gannon

Flute

IA

WC

Leslie Marrs

 

Further instructions regarding the distribution of prize money will be sent separately.

Again, congratulations to each of you for your outstanding performances!

Best wishes,

Jacqueline Herbein, NCTM

MTNA National Junior Performance Competitions Coordinator