CONGRATULATIONS Winners SFBAC NATS Classical Student Auditions Spring 2022
Category 01 - Children Grade 5 & under
1st Place - Ella Miikkulainen-Katila, student of Diane Babette Squires
2nd Place - Joanna Lee, student of Donna Olson
3rd Place - Sloane Donahue, student of Erin McOmber
Category 02-1 – Youth Grades 6-8 (Group 1)
1st Place- Anya Gupta, student of Gayatri Venkatesan
2nd Place- Sophia Dorozhkina, student of Alina Ilchuk
3rd Place- Genevieve Avdeyuk, student of Alina Ilchuk
Honorable Mention- Shin-Ki Chien-Nakano, student of Abigail Strock
Category 02-2 – Youth Grades 6-8 (Group 2)
1st Place- Claire Comerford, student of Erin McOmber
2nd Place- Aditya Ramanathan, student of Gayatri Venkatesan
3rd Place- Lydia Goodson, student of Katie Tupper
Honorable Mention- Alessandra Avdeyuk, student of Alina Ilchuk
Category 03-1 - Lower High School SSA Grades 9 & 10 (Group 1)
1st Place- Akshi Malhotra, student of Haruna Shiokawa-Mo
2nd Place- Katelyn Hsu, student of Alexandra Mena
3rd Place - Sindhu Vemulapalli, student of Donna J Olson
Honorable Mention- Evelyn Hsu, student of Haruna Shiokawa-Mo
Category 03-2 - Lower High School SSA Grades 9 & 10 (Group 2)
1st Place- Natalie Fishman, student of Katie Tupper
2nd Place- Samantha Wu, student of Kathleen Ludowise
3rd Place- Mariam Kubursi, student of Annelle Delfs
Honorable Mention- Torii Kaleba, student of Jennifer Mitchell (previous teacher- Erin McOmber)
Category 04 - Lower High School TBB Grades 9 & 10
1st Place- Aaditya Karnataki, student of Katya Roemer
2nd Place- Theo Zeitlin, student of Annelle Delfs
3rd Place- Chase Thompson, student of Annelle Delfs
Honorable Mention- Shaurya Banjara, student of Katya Roemer
Category 05-1 - Upper High School SSA Grades 11 & 12 (Group 1)
1st Place- Grace Finke, student of Annelle Delfs
2nd Place- Margot Hall, student of Jin-Hee Kim3rd Place- Emily Mannion, student of Janet Campbell
Honorable Mention- Reese Ford, student of Jennifer Mitchell (previous teacher- Erin McOmber)
Category 05-2 - Upper High School SSA Grades 11 & 12 (Group 2)
1st Place- Katrina Franco, student of Christine Abraham (previous teacher Heidi Moss Erickson)
2nd Place(TIE)- Naomi Wagner, student of Erin Mc Omber, Tanisha Pulla, student of Kathleen Ludowise, Ava Gaughan, student of Silvie Jensen(previous teacher- Justin Montigne)
Category 06 - Upper High School TBB
Grades 11 & 12
1st Place- Sam Song, student of Amy Heumann
2nd Place- Nischal Chakravarthi, student of Jace Wittig
3rd Place- Hairan (Allen) Sun, student of Xiaohua Song
Honorable Mention- Ronit Avalani, student of Annelle Delfs
Category 07/08 - Lower College &
Independent Studio SSA/TBB
1st Place- Sarah Lewis , student of Kathryne Jennings & Starr Cookman
2nd Place(TIE)- Tiara Abraham, student of Jonathan Nadel, Saman de Silva, student of Jace Wittig
Honorable Mention- Sidharth Srinivasan, student of Kathryne Jennings & John Proft
Category 09/10 - Upper College &
Independent Studio SSA/TBB
1st Place- Evalina Maas- Espinoza, student of Jacque Wilson Scharlach
2nd Place- Ryan Antillon, student of Claudia Kitka
3rd Place- Jin-Hee Lee, student of Kathryne Jennings
Honorable Mention- Danny Navarrete Estassi, student of Sandra Bengochea (previous teacher- Christopher Bengochea)
Category 11 - Advanced College &
Independent Studio SSA
1st Place- Si Ying Qin, student of Christine Abraham
2nd Place- Sarah Joy Sy, student of Claudia Kitka
3rd Place- Ranelle Prescott, student of Sandra Bengochea
Category 14/15 - Adult SSA & TBB (Avocational)
1st Place- Courtney Daniels, student of Heidi Moss Erickson (previous teacher- Carrie Hennessey)
2nd Place- Nikhar Agrawal, student of Kathleen Ludowise
3rd Place- Yanbo Ruan, student of Christine Abraham
Honorable Mention- Chris Green, student of Katya Roemer
Category 16/17 - Adult SSA & TBB
(Late Bloomers)
1st Place(TIE)- Steven Knight, student of Amy Heumann, Cecelia Wong, student of Kathleen Ludowise
3rd Place- Richard Aragundi, student of Lee Strawn
Honorable Mention- Carl Young, student of Katya Roemer