Juanita Miller Concerto Competition
2026 Winners

 Grand Prize
Grand Prize Piano – Andrew Nan, Sugarland - 10th

 First Place Winners
1st place Piano - Andrew Nan, Sugarland - 10th
1st place  Flute- Damee Jeong, Flower Mound - 12th
1st place Violin – Sophia Zhou, Dallas - 10th

Piano
1st place Piano - Andrew Nan, Sugarland - 10th
2nd place Piano -Olivia Ajero, Nacogdoches – 11th
3rd place Piano – Christine Choi, Southlake – 12th

 Winds/Brass
1st place  Flute- Damee Jeong, Flower Mound - 12th
2nd place Alto Sax -  Siddharth Swatantran, Round Rock - 11th
3rd place Tuba - Michael Vangeli, Cedar Park – 12th

 Strings
1st place Violin – Sophia Zhou, Dallas - 10th
2nd place Cello – Anthony Kim, Allen - 10th
3rd place Violin – Leon Zeng, Plano - 11th

 2026 Judges
Piano -  Elinor Freer, Assistant Professor, Piano – Eastman School of Music
Winds/Brass – Katherine Borst Jones, Professor Emeritus of Flute, The Ohio State University
Strings – Jean Lee, Instructor and Coordinator of String Music Educatuion, Michigan State University College of Music

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30th Annual Juanita Miller Concerto Competition
2027 Competition
Divisions: Piano, Strings, Winds & Brass

Saturday, January 9, 2027

SMU Owen Arts Center

$100 Registration Fee

Registration will open in September, 2026


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COMPETITION GUIDELINES

ELIGIBILITY
o Student in grades 9-12 as of Entry Deadline date
o Legal resident in the State of Texas
o Currently studying with a private teacher. May enter only one division
o FORMER GRAND PRIZE WINNERS INELIGIBLE
o Former First Place winners ineligible to compete in same division
o A five-minute audio-only excerpt of entry concerto with live piano accompaniment is required. Either upload below using MP3 or WMA, or attach as an audio file to an email sent at the time of this application.
o No videos accepted. No audio excerpts containing verbal introductions, or other spoken words accepted. Initial screening is blind.
o $100 registration Fee

MUSIC & LIVE AUDITION
• One movement of a STANDARD CONCERTO written originally for the instrument must be performed from memory with piano accompanist.
• Finalists/call backs announced following preliminary rounds.
• FIRST PLACE division winners compete in final round for the Grand Prize.
• Contestants are responsible for engaging and compensating an accompanist for the competition, and for supplying a published copy of the concerto for the judge which will be returned at the end of competition. No copies of music accepted.

All information subject to change.

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