2021 Winners

This year, to accommodate guidelines and restrictions due to COVID-19, we held a modified, virtual version of our competition: the Pacific Musical Society & Foundation 2021 Virtual Showcase. The Showcase incorporated a single round of judging based on video submissions. We were thrilled to receive nearly 100 submissions and are pleased to announce the winners below!

Our adjudication panel featured prominent musicians bringing a wealth of experience and expertise to this year’s judging:

Note that to reflect the limitations of video-based judging, this year we are not differentiating between first/second/third-place awards except in the Composition category. Awardees under all other categories are listed alphabetically.

Check out the incredible performances by our instrumental, piano, and vocal winners in the 2021 Winners Showcase!

2021 Instrumental Winners

Instrumental-1 (ages 8-10)

  • Colin Breshears, viola (age 8)

  • Anya Finsterle, cello (age 9)

  • Sydney Li-Jenkins, violin (age 10)

Instrumental-2 (ages 11-13)

  • Starla Breshears, cello (age 13)

  • Valery Breshears, violin (age 11)

  • Fiona Huang, cello (age 13)

Instrumental-3 (ages 14-17)

  • Dustin Breshears, violin (age 14)

  • Matthew Sakiyama, violin (age 17)

  • Angela Sun, cello (age 15)

2021 Piano Winners

Piano-1 (ages 8-10)

  • Isabel Feng (age 9)

  • Ivy Wang (age 9)

  • Isabella Xue (age 9)

Piano-2 (ages 11-13)

  • Grace Feng (age 13)

  • Benjamin Jiang (age 13)

  • Jacob Rockower (age 12)

  • Xinran Shi (age 11)

Piano-3 (ages 14-17)

  • Jeston Lu (age 15)

  • Parker van Ostrand (age 17)

  • Justin Wahby (age 17)

2021 Vocal Winners

Vocal-1 (ages 16-18, female)

  • Lily Bobrick (age 17)

Vocal-2 (ages 16-18, male)

  • Saman de Silva (age 16)

2021 Composition Winners

  • 1st place: not awarded

  • 2nd place: Zak Mustille (age 16)

  • 3rd place: Caleb Liu (age 17)