2025 Young Musicians Competition - PIANO Results
NJMTA Honorary Membership
Did you know that NJMTA also offers Honorary Membership for members of age 70 or older?
2025 Performathon Results
The 2025 NJMTA Children Helping Children Performathon raised $13,260.00!
Thank you for your support!
You can see more details and pics on the Performathon page.
The NJMTA Performathon Committee
Suzanne Lehrer, Betty Stoloff, and Renae Block
MTNA Competitions Nationals results
Congratulations to our NJ state representatives who placed at the national level of MTNA performance competitions!!
JUNIOR
PIANO: Hudson Dong, 2nd place and Ebony Award (student of Stella Xu)
WOODWIND: Jianing Liu, flute, 3rd place, (student of Amy Tu)
These students competed at the national level competitions at the recent MTNA National Conference in Minneapolis.
MTNA Eastern Division Competitions Results
Congratulations to the following NJ students and their teachers!
Eastern Junior Composition
Winner: Benjamin Breaux Teacher: Yihan Chen
Eastern Junior Performance - Piano
Winner: Hudson Dong Teacher: Stella Xu
Eastern Senior Performance - Piano Duet
Winners: Audrey Ren & Chloe Ren Teacher: Veda Zuponcic
Eastern Young Artist Performance - Piano
Winner: Vitalii Khairutdinov Teacher: Veda Zuponcic
Eastern Junior Performance – Woodwind
Winner: Jianing Liu (Flute) Teacher: Amy Tu
Eastern Senior Performance – Woodwind
Winner: Lina Lin (Flute) Teacher: Amy Tu
Eastern Senior Performance - String
Winner: Jinan Woo (Violin) Teacher: Soyeon Ahn
Eastern Young Artist Performance – String
Winner: Bethany Bobbs (Cello) Teacher: Catherine Bobbs
2024 Service Award goes to Wennie Naiyueh Niu!
First presented in 2008, the NJMTA Service Award is bestowed upon that board member whose invaluable contributions, over many years of service, have impacted the NJMTA as an organization. This award is presented during the annual state conference.
• Wennie has been an active member of NJMTA since 2009.
• She has been serving as the Voice Chairperson of the NJMTA Spring Recital Audition and Young Musicians Competition for 12 years (since 2013).
2024 Teacher of the Year
Congratulations! to Amy I-Yun Tu, the recipient of the 2024 Teacher of the Year award!
The Award was presented during the Conference Banquet on November 16, 2024.
Amy’s contributions to NJMTA:
Amy joined the NJMTA as an active member since 2014.
She has previously held positions such as NJ MTNA Young Artist and Junior Competitions Coordinator (2014–2023) and • MTNA Eastern Division Young Artist Performance Competitions Coordinator (2017–2018).
Now she serves as the New Jersey MTNA Competitions Chair (2024–present).
Served in the NJMTA State Conference Planning Committee, 2019, 2023, and 2024.
2024 Intermediate Master Class Selected Performers List
Intermediate Master Class
Presented by Dr. Kevin Chance at the State Conference on Sat. Nov. 16, 2024, 9:15-11am
Song of the Lark, Op.39 No.22 Tchaikovsky
Brinley Liu, age 8
Student of Bing Bing Chang
Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1, 1st mvmt Kuhlau
Phoebe Qi, age 9
Student of Yining Wang
Sonatina Op. 13 No.1 in C, 3rd mvmt Kabalevsky
Owen Chen, age 9
Student of Hwei-Lan Luo
Sonata in F Hob.XVI:23, 1st mvmt Haydn
Benny Breaux, age 11
Student of Ingrid Clarfield
Nocturne in E flat major Op. 9, No. 2 Chopin
Rosie Pei, age 11
Student of Chang Liu
Arabesque No.1 in E Major Debussy
Elaine Long, age 12
Student of Yujia Shen
2024 Advanced Master Class Selected Performers List
Selected Student name Teacher
Selected Amy Chu, age 13 Chiu-Tze Lin
Desperate Measures Op. 48 by R. Muczynski
Selected Vitalii Khairutdinov, age 24 Veda Zuponcic
Maja y el Ruisinior by Granados
Selected Katharine Luo, age 16 Gloria Chu
Sonata No. 5, Op.38 - Allegro tranquillo by S. Prokofiev
Selected Henry Tsai, age 16 Rita Shklar
Five Bagatelles by C. Vine
Alternate 1 Tony Bello, age 16 Ingrid Clarfield
Alternate 2 Hannah Zou, age 15 Ingrid Clarfield