Outstanding Results

Students from Chiron’s Piano departments, as well as several of our Chiron Charitable Trust Scholarship holders, took part recently in Auckland’s 67th Annual North Shore Piano Competition and came away with a truly outstanding number of prizes for their performances! Our students achieved success in more than 25 categories, in age groups ranging from as young as 7-9 years all the way up to 18 and over – truly showing what a breadth of talent we have across all our students.

Our warmest congratulations to all of our students who took part! For brevity, we have chosen to focus on some of our highest achieving students but for the full list please see below.

– Chiron student and Scholarship holder Annie Ye was awarded first prize for both the Classical and Romantic/Modern categories for ages 7-9, as well as second place for a performance of a NZ composition (13 and younger).

– Isabelle Wu was awarded five prizes, including first place in the Piano Scholarship (Junior) category and second place in the Solo: Own Selection category (12-15 years).

– Catherine Li was awarded six prizes, including first place for Reading at Sight (ages 14-16), second place in the Piano Scholarship (Intermediate) category and third place in the Romantic/Modern category (ages 14-16). She also received a Highly Commended award in the Piano Recital category (ages 15-17).

– Geoffrey Hill received five awards, including first place for a solo performance of an NZ Composition (14-16 years) and in the Solo Classical: Own Selection category. He was also awarded third place in the Piano Concerto category, ages 12-17.

– Chiron Scholarship holder Yuzhang Wu was awarded first place in the Piano Concerto category for ages 12-17.

– Chiron Scholarship holder Shuan Liu was awarded first place in the Sonata Recital category, as well as third place in the Pianoforte: Romantic or Modern Own Selection (17 years and older)

– Chiron Scholarship holder Catherine Chang was awarded first prize in the Piano Recital category (18 years and older), as well as first place for Reading at Sight (17 and older) and third prize in the Sonata Recital category.

• Full Prize List:

  Class 1 Classical 7-9 years
  First place Annie Zi Yue Ye
  Second place Kaylee Cai
  Very Highly Commended Jonathan Qiao
  
  Class 2 Classical 10-11 years
  Highly commended William Xu

  Class 3 Pianoforte Solo Classical Own Selection 12-13 years
  Third place Isabelle Wu
  Highly commended Isaac Chang

  Class 4 Pianoforte Solo Classical Own Selection
  First place Geoffrey Hill

  Class 5 Romantic or Modern 7-9 years
  First place Annie Zi Yue Ye
  Second place Kaylee Cai
  Highly Commended Isabel Wong

  Class 6 Romantic or Modern 10-11 years
  Second place William Xu
  Third place Catherine Li

  Class 7 Romantic or Modern 12-13 years
  Third place Isabelle Wu

  Class 8 Romantic or Modern 14-16 years
  Third place Catherine Li

  Class 10 Pianoforte Solos Romantic or Modern Own Selection 17 and older
  Third place Shuan Liu

  Class 11 Two Pieces in Contrasting Style 14-17 years
  Second place Catherine Li
  
  Class 15 Reading at Sight 13 and younger
  Second place Isabelle Wu

  Class 16 Reading at Sight 14-16 years
  First place Catherine Li

  Class 17 Reading at Sight 17 and older
  First place Catherine Chang

  Class 18 Solo Own Selection 12-15 years
  Second place Isabelle Wu

  Class 19 Pianoforte Solo NZ Composer
  Second place Annie Zi Yue Ye
  Very Highly Commended Jack Shaobo Hong

  Class 19 NZ Composer 13 and younger
  Second place Annie Zi Yue Ye

  Class 19b Pianoforte Solo NZ Composer 14 to 16 years older
  First place Geoffrey Hill

  Class 20 J.S. Bach 13-17 years
  First place Madeleine Xiao
  Very highly commended Geoffrey Hill
  Highly Commended Catherine Li

  Class 21b Double Duo Open
  First place Annabel Yu, Floria Lu, Hedy Chen, James Tang (Chiron Teaching Staff)

  Class 22 Duet 12 and younger
  Very highly commended Emma Zhang, Alina Wu
  Very highly commended Talia Huang, Viola Yin

  Class 23 Duet Open
  Second place Annabel Yu, Floria Lu (Chiron Teaching Staff)

  Class 25 Piano Concerto 12-17 years
  Finalist Yuzhang Wu
  Finalist Geoffrey Hill

  Class 26 Pianoforte Scholarship (Junior) 12-13 years
  First Prize Isabelle Wu

  Class 27 Pianoforte Scholarship (Intermediate) 14-16 years
  Second Prize Catherine Li

  Class 30 Pianoforte Recital 15-17 years
  Second place Madeleine Xiao
  Highly Commended Catherine Li
  Highly commended Geoffrey Hill

  Class 31 Pianoforte Recital 18 and older
  First place Catherine Chang

  Class 32 Sonata Recital
  First place Shuan Liu
  Third place Catherine Chang

  Class 34 Young Performer of the Year Nomination 15-20 years
  First place Channing Chu (Chiron Teaching Staff)