2025 MTNA Competitions
Registration deadline: September 10, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Ohio State MTNA Competitions: October 11-12, Capital University, OH
Winners/Representatives will advance to the East Central Division Online-only Video Competitions.
Congratulations to the OhioMTA winners of the MTNA Composition and Performance competitions!
The Composition Division winners will be announced in mid-December.
The Performance winners advance to Division competitions.
Junior Piano
Winner: Ryan Wang, student of Tianshu Wang
Alternate: Max Tian, student of Daria Rabotkina
Honorable Mention:
Hudson Seerden, student of Kathleen Stephenson
Lena Weinberg, student of Nina Polonsky
Senior Piano
Winner: Evan Dan, student of Sean Schulze
Alternate: Erik Jacoby, student of Kathleen Stephenson and Nina Polonsky
Honorable Mention:
Melanie Klapper, student of Nina Polonsky
Joseph Guo, student of Nina Polonsky
Senior Strings
Winner: Sonya Moonmaw, student of Sarah Kim
Alternate: Everett Martin, student of Julia Yang
Honorable Mention: Autumn Rinaldi, student of Sarah Kim
Young Artist Piano
Winner: William Keller, student of Christopher Fisher
Alternate: Kyle Yang, student of Robert Satterlee
Honorable Mention:
Eric Zhang, student of Gerardo Teissonneiere
Aizden Du, student of Haewon Song
Young Artist Woodwind
Winner: Kevin Hebovia, student of Nathan Salazar
Alternate: Samuel Valancy, student of John Sampen
Honorable Mention: Ziheng Huang, student of Michael Torres

Music Teachers National Association is pleased to announce the results of the composition competition for Ohio.
Elementary: none
Junior:
Winner: Samipa Patel, Student of Alissa Shuster Roosa
Honorable mention: Brendon Doran, Student of Lizbeth Atkinson
Honorable mention: Bobby Topalidis, Student of James Loughery
Senior:
Winner: Anchi Hall, Student of Tatiana Kats
Honorable mention: Rhys Cerón, Student of James Loughery
Honorable mention: Allison Zigler, Student of Katherine Bede
Young Artist: none
This year, the Ohio judges were:
Ellen Harrison
Andrew McFarlane
Rick Sowash
Winning and representative compositions automatically advance to the division competition. The results of that competition will be announced in mid-December.
Congratulations to all of the participants in the competition! We hope that the comments you receive from the judges will be helpful to you and your teacher. Your efforts are to be commended and we hope that you will continue to learn and grow as a composer. Good luck with your musical studies!
Jessica Madsen, Ohio Composition Coordinator