Concerto Competition Winners

This year’s winner, Neena Agrawal, is a 16-year-old violist from Chicago....

Congratulations to the 2025 winner, Dylan Zhang, who will perform the Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major by Ludwig van Beethoven on the KSO’s February 22nd, 2025 concert....

The 2024 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition winner is Neal Kotamarty Eisfeldt, violinist....

The 2023 Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition winner is Ella Wimbiscus, cellist....

Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: 2022 Winner Esme Arias-Kim Esme Arias-Kim, 16, is a Merit Scholarship Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy, a training center for advanced pre-college students, and she...

Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: 2020 Winner Isabella Brown Violinist Isabella Brown, 17, is a scholarship fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy and studies violin with Almita Vamos. This past summer,...

Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: 2019 Winner John Heo Violinist John Heo, 18, is a Scholarship Recipient Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy, a training center for gifted pre-college musicians. He...

Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: 2018 Winner William Tan Thirteen-year-old cellist William Tan is a seventh-grader at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (UCLS). He began his musical studies on cello at age 4...

Arthur D. Montzka Young Artists Concerto Competition: 2017 Winner Maya Anjali Buchanan Sixteen-year-old East Indian/American violinist Maya Anjali Buchanan studies with Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy, an elite training program for...