Satori 2026 Grand Prize Winners List
String Grand Prize Winners
Performance video is at https://www.youtube.com/@SatoriCM/videos
Category I: Age Under 9 Grand Prize (Schoenfeld Award — sponsored by Schoenfeld International Music Society, Opus One Scholarship — sponsored by Opus One International Music Festival)
Linsey Gan
Special Award
Emory Wang
Category II: Age 10 – 12 Grand Prize (Schoenfeld Award — sponsored by Schoenfeld International Music Society, Opus One Scholarship — sponsored by Opus One International Music Festival)
Ritaro Iizuka
Special Award
Eldrian Ling (Satori Music Scholarship $100)
Kyle Poon (Forte Strings Scholarship $100)
Category III: Age 13 – 15 Grand Prize (Schoenfeld Award — sponsored by Schoenfeld International Music Society, Opus One Scholarship — sponsored by Opus One Music International Festival)
Ryan Noda
Special Award
Joanna Kang (Satori Music Scholarship $100)
Ethan Lin (Forte Strings Scholarship $100)
Hannah Yoon
Lioma Quoit Minematsu
Category IV: Age 16 – 19 Grand Prize (Schoenfeld Award — sponsored by Schoenfeld International Music Society, Opus One Scholarship — sponsored by Opus One International Music Festival)
Joseph Kim
Special Award
Eliana Wong (Forte Strings Scholarship $100)
Rachael Kim (Forte Strings Scholarship $100)
Nicole Lin
Ensemble Category I: Age 13 Under Grand Prize (Soriel Music Ensemble Award — sponsored by Soriel Music Academy)
Atticus Kwok/ Charlotte Warren/ Sophie Chen/ Lily Hong
Special Award
Eldrian Ling/ Isabella Zhou/ Aiden Lu
Ensemble Category II: Age 14 – 19 Grand Prize (Soriel Music Ensemble Award — sponsored by Soriel Music Academy)
Claire Kim/ Inwoo D. Yoo
Special Award
Chloe Park/ Shaomei Peng/ Austin Tsao