The Piano Department would like to congratulate the following students for achieving Distinction in the 2026 Spring Juries.
Certificate Jury
| Level 1 | |
| Delina Abemelek | Student of Luis Gonzalez |
| Makina Tiayon | Student of Natalie Ormsby |
| Lee Weiss-Wallace | Student of Cecilia Cho |
| Level 2 | |
| Camila Acosta | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Santiago Acosta | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Sunwoo Chung | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Audrey Liou | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Thomas Nuzum | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Anisha Ravindran | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Level 3 | |
| Eudora Deal | Student of Natalie Ormsby |
| Flora Emmet Stewart | Student of Cecilia Cho |
| Felix Gien | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Fiona Gien | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Livy Grimmig | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Diana Kessler | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Phuong Mai Pham | Student of Minji Kim |
| Ella Sewell | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Ulysses Shen | Student of Katerina Zaitseva |
| Eitan Zingerman | Student of Anna Soukiassian |
| Level 4 | |
| Anika Abhyankar | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Paz Andrade | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Mirei Araki | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Spencer Dixon | Student of Kim Yi |
| Suren Habibzadeh | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Charlotte Hong | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Obiora (Obi) Nnaemeka Fertik | Student of Karen Bartman |
| Zoe Templo | Student of Michael Noble |
| Alexander Vignon | Student of Sean Cavanaugh |
| Asher Yang | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Level 5 | |
| Riley Ding | Student of Dasha Gabay |
| Eloise Lichtenberger | Student of Jamila Tekalli Hanner |
| Michelle Niu | Student of Grace Liu |
| Lucas Pastor | Student of Hyeweon Gessner |
| Akshara Potla | Student of Jamila Tekalli Hanner |
| Eva Sledge | Student of Natalie Ormsby |
| Carys Winder | Student of Jamila Tekalli Hanner |
| Esme Yang | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Felicity Zhang | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Level 6 | |
| Kantaro Araki | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Issei Endo | Student of Klyde Ledamo |
| Samuel Espinoza | Student of Junghee Son |
| Dogukan Koc | Student of David Davenport |
| Calvin K’Vong | Student of Sean Cavanaugh |
| Rayhan Shams | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Max Slage | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Emma Waterman | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Miriam Wicentowski | Student of Kim Yi |
| Malachi Winder | Student of Jamila Tekalli Hanner |
| Level 7 | |
| Hanna Endo | Student of Sean Cavanaugh |
| Jenna Franke | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Genevieve Lichtenberger | Student of Jamila Tekalli Hanner |
| Chelsea Newman | Student of Artur Aksenov |
| Level 8 | |
| Philip Chen | Student of Dasha Gabay |
| Lucas Liu | Student of Ching-Yi Lin |
| Pietro Magistretti | Student of Martin Labazevitch |
| Level 9 | |
| Casey Didden | Student of Hyeweon Gessner |
| Jason Ding | Student of Dasha Gabay |
| Minjae Jeon | Student of Jinha Park |
| Will McAllister | Student of Jason Solounias |
| Level 10 | |
| Arriam Gebre | Student of Dasha Gabay |
| David Yang-Watkins | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
General Jury
| Primer | |
| Bora Arslan | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Level 1 | |
| Saki Arai | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Allyn Cherry | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Bryce Cherry | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Cecily Glass | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Rishaan Kar | Student of Keiju Takehara |
| Isabel Lawson | Student of Michael Noble |
| Claire Li | Student of Minji Kim |
| Billie Lin-Guilford | Student of Junghee Son |
| Ione Lundry | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Aria Moore-Solorzano | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Lillian Mungall | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Chippy Olwin | Student of Crystal Jiang |
| Mayura Sethupathy | Student of Darya Gabay |
| Caroline Useem | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Tyler Useem | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Jack Ventresca | Student of Victor Shklyar |
| Level 2 | |
| Elisabeth Amin | Student of Sean Cavanaugh |
| August Aum | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Ansel Burgette | Student of Katerina Zaitseva |
| Nora Cakmak | Student of Katerina Zaitseva |
| Avery Chen | Student of Michael Noble |
| Mira Chernoff | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Zoey Clowes | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Kaia Conners | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Henry Gao | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Jai Gupta | Student of Ching-Yi Lin |
| Gabrielle Hallegatte | Student of Minji Kim |
| Tessa Hildner | Student of Katerina Zaitseva |
| Kiara Leal | Student of Sean Cavanaugh |
| Sylvie Lichtenberger | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Noa Maltese | Student of Luke Ratcliffe |
| Toki Matthijs | Student of Junghee Son |
| Milo Mitchell | Student of Katerina Zaitseva |
| Nora Moody | Student of Grace Liu |
| Jeremiah Otubusin-Reese | Student of Paul Bratcher |
| Gabriel Pike | Student of Luke Ratcliffe |
| Elsa Puerto | Student of Hyeweon Gessner |
| Charlie Ramos-Carrillo | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Bodhisattwa Sabud | Student of Grace Liu |
| Julia Savage | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Vera Sharma | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Bradley Silver | Student of Miho Sparling |
| Immanuel Simonson | Student of Minji Kim |
| Clare Stone | Student of Luis Gonzalez |
| Emerson West | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Tiantian Zhang | Student of Crystal Jiang |
| Level 3 | |
| Anna Caron | Student of Kim Yi |
| Elliott Cheung | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Riddhima Dey | Student of Grace Liu |
| Grady Dorris | Student of David Davenport |
| Liev Elkis | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Jonathan Guo | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Yasmeen Haas | Student of Grace Liu |
| Alex Koay | Student of Victor Shklyar |
| Patrick Kochan | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Julia Beitler Leoni | Student of Barbro Dahlman |
| Max McGuire | Student of Luke Ratcliffe |
| Devik Raman | Student of Cecilia Cho |
| Audrey Scritchfield | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Noa van Houwelingen | Student of Junghee Son |
| Desmond West | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Level 4 | |
| Rishita Dey | Student of Grace Liu |
| Julian Fields | Student of Victor Shklyar |
| Aria Foruhan | Student of Kim Yi |
| John Gartz | Student of Victor Shklyar |
| Maxime Goussev | Student of Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal |
| Luji Issa | Student of Minji Kim |
| Liam Jean | Student of Victor Shklyar |
| Anna Li | Student of Wen-Yin Chan |
| Azadeh Moghimi | Student of Melinda Baird |
| Faith Reyes | Student of Amanda Halstead |
| Level 5 | |
| Triton Grigsby | Student of Ching-Yi Lin |
| Olivia Lee | Student of Gina Hong |
| Juhi Maheshwary | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Stella McGuire | Student of Luke Ratcliffe |
| Gustave Peterson | Student of Keiju Takehara |
| Ian Richards | Student of Melinda Baird |
| Dhiren Sellgren | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Level 6 | |
| David Badmus | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Benedict Chen-Bianchetti | Student of Artur Aksenov |
| Talia Makris Fonda | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Gwyneth Nakata | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Jonathan Peng | Student of Gina Hong |
| Olivia Stevens | Student of Natalia Efremova |
| Level 7 | |
| Kasra Tavakoli | Student of Kim Yi |
| Level 8 | |
| Kevin Ha | Student of Andrea Sagripanti |
| Level 9 | |
| Anastasia Fitenko | Student of Martin Labazevitch |
| Gabrielle Ghozland | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Level 10 | |
| Uma Das | Student of Cecilia Cho |
Jazz Piano Jury
| Talia Makris Fonda | Student of Paul Bratcher |
Adult Jury
| Erika Bainbridge | Student of Michael Noble |
| Linda Bauch | Student of Patrick O’Donnell |
| Lisa Capuano | Student of Gina Hong |
| Hon-Cheong Chan | Student of Artur Aksenov |
| Christy Cherry | Student of Dawoon Jung |
| Jung Choi | Student of Grace Liu |
| David Crane | Student of Wen-Yin Chan |
| Catherine Defontaine | Student of Naira Babayan |
| Alan Elsner | SStudent of Luke Ratcliffe |
| Emily Gironda | Student of Natalia Efremova |
| Yuko Hashimoto | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Atsuko Horiguchi | Student of Sam Post |
| Tiffany Houghton | Student of Ariel Nathanson Bolinja |
| Benjamin Hsu | Student of Darya Gabay |
| Erich Huang | Student of Michael Noble |
| Liang Huang | Student of Ching-Yi Lin |
| Asami Kasai | Student of Mark Irchai |
| Grace Lai | Student of Deborah Lloyd |
| Chelsea Lee | Student of Jason Solounias |
| Jorge Lopez Silva | Student of Artur Aksenov |
| Christopher Mesick | Student of Irina Kats |
| Kimberly Minarik | Student of Topher Ruggiero |
| Dina Munasifi | Student of Luis Gonzalez |
| Michael Qian | Student of Rachel Chen |
| Alex Rehding | Student of Artur Aksenov |
| Derek Sharp | Student of Ching-Yi Lin |
| Cinnamon Sipper | Student of Sayaka Jordan |
| Julia Vaillant | Student of Anna Soukiassian |