Past Chicago Violin Competition Winners

See below previous Chicago Violin Competition Winners & Laureates

Winners 2022

Senior Artist 

1st – Brandon Du (USA)
2nd – Carlos Martinez Arroyo (Spain)
3rd – Xiang Han (China)

Laureates

Oliver Neubauer (USA)
Julia Jones (USA)
Jihyun Baik (South Korea)

Young Artist 

1st – Gustavo Guanipa Gil (Venezuela)
2nd – Dindin Jingyi Wang (China)
3rd – Isabella Sun (Australia)

Laureates

Elizabeth Song (USA)
Jiwoo Son (South Korea)
Natalie Oh (USA)

Winners 2021

Senior Artist 

1st – Jesus Linarez (Venezuela) 
2nd – Tianyou Ma (China) 
3rd – Alexander Hobbs (USA) 

Laureates

Minchae Kim (South Korea)
Clara Kim (USA)
Evin Blomberg (USA)

Young Artist 

1st – Kento Hong (USA) 
2nd – Luke Pisani(USA)
3rd – Mio Imai (USA) 

Laureates

Cooper Olsen (USA)
Lily Sullivan (USA)
Lauren Kim (USA)
Michelle Bushkova (USA)
Emanuel Villarin (Philippines)

Winners – 2020

1st – Masha Lakisova
2nd – Katya Moeller
3rd – Ari Han

Winners – 2019

1st – Claire Metcalf
2nd – Ariana O’Connell
3rd – Linda Wang

Winners 2018

1st – Abigail Park
2nd – Bianca Ciubancan
3rd – Claire Metcalf

Winners 2017

1st –Kitsho Hosotani
2nd – Justin Lee
3rd – Robert Sanders

Winners 2016

1st – Joshua Brown
2nd – Anya Brumfield
3rd – Sophie Lekas

Winners 2015

1st – Julian Rhee
2nd – Justin Lee
3rd – Ellie Kim

Winners 2014