Music Awards Received by Faculty’s Students

2025 Sarah Chen, Alejandro Wu-Mula and Chelsea Yan won the Second Prize, and Eling Tai, Elaine Yan and Henry Tan won the Third Prize in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2024 Alexia Fang won the First Prize in the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO) Matteo Giammario Concerto Competition and performed as a soloist with the GPYO Symphonic Orchestra

2024 Jingxin Zhong won the First Prize in the VIVO International Music Competition

2024 Alexia Fang won the Second Prize and Sarah Chen won the Fourth Prize in the Piano Star International Competition with Prof. Robert McDonald from The Juilliard School and Curtis Music Institute in the jury

2024 Henry Tan won the Gold Medal in the Young Maestro International Music Competition 

2024 Jingxin Zhong and Chelsea Yan won the First Prize, Eling Tai, Elaine Yan and Eira Xu won the Second Prize, and Sean Song won the Third Prize in the VIVO International Music Competition

2024 Eling Tai won the First Prize,  Angela Butz, Harrison Lu and Victoria Butz won the Second Prize in the Crescendo Little Mozart International Competition

2024 Alejandro Wu-Mula, Arielle Chen, and Eling Tai won Grand Award, Adam Wu-Mula, Angela Butz, Bohan Chen, Felicia Li, Max Zha-Zhao, and Victoria Butz won First Prize in the Apex International Music Competition

2024 Alexia Fang won the Second Prize in the concerto competition, Sarah Chen and Alejandro Wu-Mula won the Second Prize and Henry Tan, Elaine Yan and Yitong Huang won the Third Prize in the solo competition, in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2024 Bohan Chen won the First Prize in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition

2023 Alexander Liu received the First Prize in the Philadelphia Young Pianist’s Academy (PYPA) Music Festival

2023 Angela Butz, Jingxin Zhong, Eira Xu and Henry Tan won the Grand Award and Felicia Li, Pennie Lu, and Vanessa Roseberry won the First Prize in the Apex International Music Competition

2023 Henry Tan won the Second Prize in the Charleston International Music Competition

2023 Alejandro Wu-Mula won the First Prize, Eling Tai won the Second Prize, Victoria Butz and Sean Song won the Third Prize in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition

2023 Angela Butz, Yitong Huang, Chelsea Yan, Max Zha-Zhao and Victoria Butz won the First Prize and Harrison Lu won the Third Prize in the Crescendo International Music Competition

2023 Henry Tan won the First Prize in the VIVO International Music Competition

2022 Sarah Chen won the Grand Prize and Platinum Award from the Apex International Music Competition, received $1000 cash prize

2023 Daniel Liu won the First Prize in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2022 Alexia Fang won the Third Prize in the Young Musicians Competition of New Jersey

2022 Angela Butz won the First Prize in the Apex International Music Competition

2022 Alejandro Wu-Mula won the First Prize in the VIVO International Music Competition

2022 Emma Sun won the Gold Medal, Ella Sun won the Silver Medal and Pennie Lu won the Bronze Medal in the Young Maestro International Music Competition

2022 Alejandro Wu-Mula won the First Prize in the Huaxia Cup International Piano Open Competition

2022 Yiming Huang won the Third Prize in the Piano Star International Competition

2022 Arielle Chen won the Second Prize, Bohan Chen, Yiming Huang, Vanessa Roseberry and Yitong Huang won the Third Prize in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2022 Alexia Fang won the Highest Award in the concerto competition, and Alexia Fang and Angela Butz are the winner of solo competition, in the Young Pianist Competition of New Jersey

2022 Tianqi Sun and Elaine Yan won the Second Prize, Victoria Butz won the Third Prize in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition 

2021 Jingxin Zhong won the First Prize, George Sun and Yiming Huang won the Second Prize and Arielle Chen won the Third Prize in the Prima Volta Music Competition

2021 Felicia Li, Victoria Butz, Yitong Huang, and Emma Sun won the First Prize in the Crescendo Little Mozart International Competition

2021 Sarah Chen won the Gold Medal, Arielle Chen won the Silver Medal, Yiming Huang won the Bronze Medal in the Young Maestro International Music Competition 

2021 Sarah Chen, George Sun, Arielle Chen, Felicia Li, Jingxin Zhong, Yitong Huang, Menghan Sun, and Mengxin Sun won the Second Prize in the American Protege International Piano and Strings Competition

2021 Bohan Chen, Elaine Yan, and Sean Song won the First Prize in the Crescendo International Youth Music Competition

2021 Tianqi Sun won the First Prize, Angela Butz, Jingxin Zhong, Pennie Lu won the Second Prize in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition

2021 Alexia Fang, George Sun, Pennie Lu, Angela Butz, Jingxin Zhong, Yiming Huang won the First Prize and Arielle Chen won the Third Prize in the Prima Volta Music Competition

2021 Sarah Chen, Angela Butz and Arielle Chen won the Second Prize, Tianqi Sun, Jingxin Zhong, Pennie Lu and Yitong Huang won the Third Prize in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2020 George Sun won the Second Prize in the Carneigie Hall’s Zankel Hall in the Crescendo Little Mozart International Competition

2020 Pennie Lu, Jingxin Zhong, Alisa Xiao and Angela Butz won the First Prize, Ella Sun and Emma Sun won the Second Prize in the Crescendo International Youth Competition

2020 Victoria Fang won the Third Prize in the Bravura Young Artists Concerto Competition

2020 Alexia Fang and Pennie Lu won the Second Prize and Zihui Xiao won the Third Prize in the Camerata Artists International Competition

2020 Alexia Fang won the First Prize, Pennie Lu, Angela Butz, Jingxin Zhong, Yitong Huang and Alisa Xiao won the Second Prize, and Yiming Huang won the Third Prize in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition

2020 Bohan Chen, Felicia Li, Henry Tan, Victoria Butz, and Sean Xing won the Second Prize and Vanessa Roseberry won the Third Prize in the Crescendo Little Mozart International Competition

2020 Alexia Fang, Angela Butz, Yiming Huang, Pennie Lu, George Sun won the First Prize and Jingxin Zhong won the Second Prize in the Prima Volta Music Competition

2019 George Sun won the Gold Medal in the Second China – US International Youth Music Competition

2019 Alexia Fang and George Sun won the Second Prize and Fourth Prize in the Steinway Junior Piano Competition

2019 Alexia Fang and Sarah Chen won the Fifth and Sixth Prize in the Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, Connecticut

2019 Victoria Fang, Angela Butz, Jingxin Zhong, Kimberly Tan, Evelyn Chan, and Yitong Huang won the First Prize, and Ella Sun, Emma Sun, Vanessa Roseberry and Sean Xing won the Second Prize in the Crescendo Little Mozart International Competition

2018 Alexia Fang and Victoria Fang were selected to be the featured young pianists broadcasted by the WWFM Classic Music Radio Show “Kids on Keys” playing Horowitz’s piano

 

Faculty’s Students Accepted by or from Top College or Pre-College Programs 

Alexia Fang, accepted into the piano program of Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, one of the Top 10 Traditional Music Colleges in The U.S.

Eddy Zhou, accepted into Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, which is ranked as one of the best music schools in the US

Alexia Fang, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College

Alejandro Wu-Mula, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College

Alexander Liu, The Pre-College of Juilliard School 

Victoria Fang, The Pre-College of Juilliard School

Daniel Liu, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College 

George Sun, New England Conservatory Prep

 

Faculty’s Students Performances

Weill Recital Hall of the Carnegie Hall, New York City

Zankel Hall of the Carnegie Hall, New York City

Merkin Hall of Kaufman Music Center in New York City

Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, New Jersey

American Dream, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Kimmel Center, Philadelphia

Lincoln Center, New York City

Steinway Music Hall, New York City

Pianist and Violin Concertmaster of the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra (GPYO) (Alexia Fang)

WWFM Classic Music Radio Show

Bowdoin International Music Festival and the Studzinski Recital Hall in Brunswick, Maine (Sarah Chen)

Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and East Meets West Youth Music Ensemble (Alejandro Wu-Mula)

 

Faculty’s Students Accepted by Top Universities

Alexia Fang, Vanderbilt Universit (2025)

Kevin Zhou, Princeton University (2025)

George Sun, Brown University (2024)

Pennie Lu, Cornell University (2024)

Yiming Huang, University of California (2024)