2025 VEA Online Application Portal Now Open!
The VEA Competition online portal is now open! The deadline to submit is December 31st, 2024 at 11:59PM EST
Read More2024 VEA Winners Announced!
The Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition 2024 results are in. With a large amount of applicants, the level of performance was extremely high. Thank you all that applied. Without further delay, the winners are: 2024 Winners 1st Place Winner Classical Clarinet Alice McDonald 2nd Place Winner Classical Clarinet Elad Navon 3rd Place Winner Classical Clarinet Abraham Schenck Honorable Mention Classical Clarinet Marian Mayen Honorable Mention Classical Clarinet Sung Yoo Min 1st Place Winner Classical Saxophone Haven Kahn 2nd Place Winner Classical Saxophone Kyle Kato 3rd Place Winner Classical Saxophone Matthew Hrinda Honorable Mention Classical Saxophone Ian Briffa Honorable Mention Classical Saxophone Austin Shilling 1st Place Winner Jazz Daniel Cohen 2nd Place Winner Jazz Coleman Rose 3rd Place Winner Jazz Hunter Pullen Honorable Mention Jazz Henry Scamurra Honorable Mention Jazz Sen Yoshimura Congratulations to all and thank you for your continued support of the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. Repertoire for the 2025 VEA Competition will be announced by April 1st… stay...
Read More2023 VEA Winners Announced!
The Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition 2023 results are in. With a large amount of applicants, the level of performance was extremely high. Thank you all that applied. Without further delay, the winners are: Classical Clarinet: 1st Prize: In Soo Oh 2nd Prize: Zhiwei Ni 3rd Prize: Yuhsin Galaxy Su Honorable Mention: Juliyan Martinez Classical Saxophone: 1st Prize: Isaac Boone 2nd Prize: Haven Kahn 3rd Prize: Nicholas Napier Honorable Mention: Leo Schlaifer Jazz: 1st Prize: Evan Kappelman 2nd Prize: Alex De Lazzari 3rd Prize: Ethan Buck Honorable Mention: Daniel Cohen Congratulations to all and thank you for your continued support of the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. Repertoire for the 2024 VEA Competition will be announced by April 1st… stay...
Read More2022 VEA Winners Announced!
The Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition 2022 results are in. With a large amount of applicants, the level of performance was extremely high. Thank you all that applied. Without further delay, the winners are: Classical Clarinet: 1st Prize: Michael Miller 2nd Prize: Anders Peterson 3rd Prize: YunZe Shao Honorable Mention: Zhiwei Ni Classical Saxophone: 1st Prize: Maria Torres-Melgares 2nd Prize: Landon Chang 3rd Prize: Roberto Campa Honorable Mention: Joseph Moruzzi Jazz: 1st Prize: Jason Arkins 2nd Prize: Soojung Lee 3rd Prize: Jack Smith Honorable Mention: Andrew Peterson Congratulations to all and thank you for your continued support of the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition. Repertoire for the 2023 VEA Competition will be announced by April 1st… stay...
Read More2021 VEA Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the 2021 VEA prize winners! 1st Prize 2nd Prize 2nd Prize Classical Clarinet: Zhiwei Ni 2nd Prize Classical Saxophone: Matthew Fox 2nd Prize Jazz: Cole Palensky 3rd Prize 3rd Prize Classical Clarinet: Hector Noriega-Othon 3rd Prize Classical Saxophone: Matthew Nicholson 3rd Prize Jazz: Aidan...
Read More2020 VEA Winners Announced!
Congratulations to the 2020 VEA prize winners! 1st Prize 2020 1st Prize Classical Clarinet: Ángel Martín Mora 2020 1st Prize Classical Saxophone: Robert Stine II 2020 1st Prize Jazz: Santosh Sharma 2nd Prize 2nd Prize Classical Clarinet: Amer Hasan2nd Prize Classical Saxophone: Jeremy Howell2nd Prize Jazz: Dylan Band 3rd Prize 3rd Prize Classical Clarinet: Michael Miller3rd Prize Classical Saxophone: Christopher Forbes3rd Prize Jazz: Devin...
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