CONGRATULATIONS Winners SFBAC NATS Student Auditions Spring 2021
Category 01 - Children Grade 5 & under
1st Place Alliana Yang(student of Lora Libby & Kate Kerwin-Gielniak)
2nd Place Eliza Jane Cooper(student of Ryan Downey)____________
3rd Place __Elyse Chambers(student of Xiaohua Song)___________
Honorable Mention ___Avalon Greco(student of Ryan Downey)_____
Category 02-1 – Youth Grades 6-8 (Group 1)
1st Place TIE-Annabel Zhao(student of Diane Squires) & Mira Rohatgi_(student of Erin McOmber)_____________________________
3rd Place TIE-Eva Richey(student of Janet Campbell) & Maaike Mora(student of Ryan Downey)_______________________
Category 02-2 – Youth Grades 6-8 (Group 2)
1st Place Ethan Sadkowski(student of Sarah Sloan)_______________
2nd Place ___Sindhu Vemulapaali_(student of Donna Olson)______
3rd Place _Jasmine Wu (student of Alison Collins)_______________
Honorable Mention _TIE-_Ansh Ambatkar(student of Katya Roemer) & Milo Chang_(student of Kelly Fosdahl Burge)_
Category 02-3 – Youth Grades 6-8 (Group 3)
1st Place _Shreya Ghoshal(student of Gayatri Venkatesan)_______
2nd Place _Sanya Kalbag(student of Sarah Sloan)
3rd Place Ayana Rashteh(student of Annelle Delfs)_______
Honorable Mention _Claire Barnett (student of Katie Tupper)__
Category 03-1 - Lower High School SSA Grades 9 & 10 (Group 1)
1st Place _Ryan Pham(student of Jim Meredith)_
2nd Place Evelyn Hsu_(student of Haruna Shiokawa-Mo)____
3rd Place TIE-Aaditya Karnataki(student of Katya Roemer) & Rose Madsen(student of Amy Heumann)________
Category 03-2 - Lower High School SSA Grades 9 & 10 (Group 2)
1st Place TIE-Violet Pasmooij(Student of Annelle Delfs) &
Claire Spence(student of Jin-Hee Kim) & Phoebe Wright(student of Jace Wittig
Honorable Mention Mariam Kubursi(student of Annelle Delfs)____
Category 03-3 - Lower High School SSA Grades 9 & 10 (Group 3)
1st Place _Sawyer Lai (student of Erin McOmber)_________________
2nd Place TIE-_Sasha Feldman(student of Theresa Cardinale) & Natalie Fishman(student of Katie Tupper)
Honorable Mention __Emily Mannion (student of Janet Campbell)___
Category 04 - Lower High School TBB
Grades 9 & 10
1st Place _Hairan (Allen) Sun (student of Xiaohua Song)_____
2nd Place ___Sean Nesamoney(student of Katie Tupper)_________
3rd Place _Simon Braun(student of Diane Squires)____________
Honorable Mention TIE-James Nicolson(student of Lora Libby) & Ritam Saha (student of Diane Squires)___
Category 05-1 - Upper High School SSA Grades 11 & 12 (Group 1)
1st Place __Clara Abrahams (student of Alina Ilchuk)______
2nd Place _Isabel Yang (student of Justin Montigne)_________
3rd Place _Grace Finke (student of Annelle Delfs)_____________
Honorable Mention _Shayla He(student of Alison Collins)_________
Category 05-2 - Upper High School SSA Grades 11 & 12 (Group 2)
1st Place Yekaterina Lynch(student of Christine Abraham)________
2nd Place Cherie Uyanik(student of Nancy Kromm)____
3rd Place Avi Kahn(student of Rachel Michelberg)_______________
Honorable Mention _Audrey Johnson_(student of Silvie Jensen)______
Category 05-3 - Upper High School SSA Grades 11 & 12 (Group 3)
1st Place __Mia Hamilton(student of Kathryne Jennings)________
2nd Place _Shreya Balasubramanian(student of Sarah Sloan)_____
3rd Place _Miraya Choudhury(student of Sarah Sloan)______
Honorable Mention _Anushka Basu (student of Kathryne Jennings)___
Category 06 - Upper High School TBB
Grades 11 & 12
1st Place Saman de Silva (student of Jace Wittig)____________
2nd Place __Sam Song_(student of Amy Heumann)________________
3rd Place Dalton Bassler-Haynes(student of Alice Hughes)_________
Honorable Mention __Chehan Wijayaratne (student of Jace Wittig)____
Category 07 - Lower College &
Independent Studio SSA
1st Place __Jin-Hee Lee (student of Kathryne Jennings)_________
2nd Place _Hannah Kloninger-Stever_(student of Kathryne Jennings)_
3rd Place _Krystal Mao (student of Kathleen Ludowise)__
Honorable Mention _TIE-Annette Dong(student of Wendy Hillhouse) & Stephanie Ortiz(student of Sandra Bengochea)______________
Category 08 - Lower College &
Independent Studio TBB
1st Place _Juan Angel Johnston-Chavez(student of Phil Skinner)_____
2nd Place TIE-Ian Harris(student of Jonathan Smucker) & Benjamin Tripp(student of Jane Erwin)
Honorable Mention Daniel Navarette-Estassi (student of Christopher Bengochea)
Category 09/10 - Upper College &
Independent Studio SSA/TBB
1st Place _Amanda Britt (student of Robin Fisher)___
2nd Place _David Kronenberg (student of Emily Sinclair)____
3rd Place __Alexis Delgado(student of Jacque Wilson Scharlach)____
Honorable Mention _Bernadette La Montagne Schenck(student of Sandra Bengochea)
Category 11 - Advanced College &
Independent Studio SSA
1st Place Jasmine Marie Reyes(student of Jacque Wilson Scharlach)_
2nd Place _JB Levine(student of Jonathan Smucker)____________
3rd Place _Magdalena Travis(student of Donna Olson)___________
Category 13 - Advanced Classical SSA & TBB
1st Place Ashley Willits(student of Sandra Bengochea)___________
2nd Place Ashleigh Ortiz (student of Robin Fisher)__
3rd Place _Adriel Cruz (student of Donna Olson)________
Honorable Mention _Erika Strandberg(student of Erin McOmber)____
Category 14/15 - Adult SSA & TBB (Avocational)
1st Place _Tabitha Brecke(student of Victoria Rapanan)
2nd Place TIE-Kate Koo (student of Lora Libby) & Mona Majid(student of Heidi Moss Erickson)__
Honorable Mention _Emily Claassen_(student of Donna Olson)______
Category 16/17 - Adult SSA & TBB
(Late Bloomers)
1st Place _Chris Pilcher(student of Heidi Moss Erickson)_
2nd Place TIE-Dave Ball(student of Erin McOmber) & Aprille Lucero(student of Nancy Kromm) & Sarah McPhie(student of Erin McOmber)