Awards and Prizes
Class 1 Preliminary
Gold medals: Sylvi Leppanen, Aashi Mokai, Amy Tran, Rafaella Stokes
SOUNZ prize: Rafaella Stokes
Class 2 Grades 1-2
Gold medals:, Sophie Collins, (violin), Sophie Foon, Dave Mathew,
William Yuan, Tiffany Zhang, Avery Molina, Dan Zhang, Hunter Sun,
Sean Rong, Jayden Ma, Melody Han, Freya Yang (violin)
SOUNZ prize: Dave Mathew
Class 3 Grades 3-4
Gold medals: Jaiden Lam, Lily Yang, Simon Chen, Adam Dai,
Yucheng Han, Sienna Qian, Sammie Leck, Freya Yang, Adam
Contin, Angela Deng, Thomas Xie, Christina He (violin), Orlando Liu, An Vinh Nguyen, Luke Li, Xi Rou Wang, Edmund Green, An Pham, Avery Sun, Kerriann Lim (cello), Zichen Li (cello), Ally Yu (violin), Yuran Shen, Misia Hosie (violin)
SOUNZ prize: Lily Yang
Class 4 Grades 5-6
1st : Samuel Yuan (violin)
2nd : Edgar Watson
3rd : Juanling (Gloria) Zhang (violin)
VHC: Jue (Roger) Zhang (violin), Xinyi Song, Haoyuan Gu, Samuel
Yuan, Lyndey Jiang, Violet Ma, Anthony Takeda (violin)
HC: Caesar Grose, Janice Wu (violin), George Chou, Annika Bonk,
Iris Chen, Hunter McArthur, Chloe Wang, Bianca Yan, Timothy Wang, Eric Zhang, Miles Lin
SOUNZ prize: Edgar Watson
Class 5 Grades 7-8
1st : Edgar Watson (violin)
2nd: William Ding
3rd : Ingshwan Zhang
SOUNZ prize: Stephanie Wu
Class 6 Recital
1st: Otis Prescott-Mason
2nd: Ben Kennedy
3rd: Lana Ritchie
Best Performance of Pre-tertiary : Minh Duc Nguyen
VHC: Tal Shiri, Minh Duc Nguyen
HC: Laura Cookson
SOUNZ prize: Lana Ritchie
Class 7 Bach
1st : Joshua Langford
2nd: Minh Duc Nguyen
VHC: Fleur Locke-Brook, Cynthia Liu, Andrew Cheng
HC: Haoyuan Gu
Class 8 Junior Ensemble
1st: Lyndey Jiang, Lincey Jiang
2nd : Annika Bonk, Miles Lin, Michael Fei
VHC: Edgar Watson, Anthony Takeda
Class 9 Senior Ensemble
1st: Alice Carter, Reilly Blennerhasset, Carina Gunchenko
2nd : Catherine Harrison, Sebastian Green, William Ding
VHC: Minh Duc Nguyen, Joshua Langford
HC: Cynthia Liu, Cameron Sparks, Minh Duc Nguyen
Florence Murray Awards
Most promising performer on piano:
Joshua Langford, Otis Prescott-Mason
Selah Music Award
Most promising performer non-piano:
Edgar Watson (Violin) Samuel Yuan (violin)
SOUNZ Emerging Young Composer
Sammie Leck
Best Performance of a Chinese work (NZ Music Trust)
Haoyuan Gu, Christina Chen