State Solo Competition 2024

2024 Solo Competition Rules

2024 Solo Competition Application

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the UTASTA State Solo Competition! Here are the winners for 2024 after an exciting final-round. We want to express sincere appreciation to our judges Carl Johansen and Marty McMillan. Thank you everyone for participating!

Junior category:
First Prize: Anna Mueller Planitz
Second Prize: Deann Huang
Honorable Mention: Hannah Kwon, Aristotle Stokes and Gabriel Taylor

Senior Category:
First Prize: Blake Purser
Second Prize: Della Gardner and Clara Wadsworth
Honorable Mention: Grant Brady, Graham Carlson and Jacob Thiriot

Collegiate category:
First Prize: Joshua Swank
Second Prize: Michaela West Cheek and Stella Wadsworth
Honorable Mention: Matthew Bailey and Alexa Knaupp

 
2022 Solo Competition Winners

Primary Division:
1st Prize – Ella Johnson
2nd Prize – Noelle Andersen
Honorable Mention – Sophie Wilkes

Junior Division:
1st Prize – Emma Phippen
2nd Prize – Kiersten Schaub
Honorable Mention – Jaydenn Kunzler & Dalloway Smith

Senior Division:
1st Prize – Nathan Cox
2nd Prize – Samuel Moore
Honorable Mention – Ethan Allen

Please plan on joining us for next year’s Utah ASTA Chamber Music Competition 2025

2020 State Solo Competition Winners

College Category 

First Prize: Rebekah Willey, violin

Second Prize: Kimberly Lewin, cello

Honorable Mention: Hannah Bradshaw, viola

Pre-College Category 

First Prize: Sarah Kendell, violin

Second Prize: Ezekial Sokoloff, violin

Honorable Mention: Emma Moulton, harp & Logan Purser, viola

2018 WinnersUASTA (37 of 71)

Pre-College Category

First Prize:  Emma Ferguson, harp

Second Prize: Esther Clayton, viola

Honorable Mention: Jonathan Lee, cello & McKenna Yun Taylor, violin

College Category

First Prize:  Adam Woodward, violin

Second Prize: Nathan Cox, celloUASTA (32 of 71)

Honorable Mention: Ted Rogers, guitar & Rebekah Lara Willey, violin