2020 Vancouver International Music Competition coming soon!
2017 VIMC Competition Winners
Platinum Cash Prize Winners ($1500):
| Lukasz Mikolajczyk | Piano – Artists Category | Poland |
| Takumi Taguchi | Strings – Young Artists Category (Violin) | USA/Japan |
| Geoffrey Schellenberg | Voice – Artists Category (Baritone) | Canada |
1st Place Cash Prize Winners ($600):
| Charlotte Wong | Piano – Young Artists Category | USA |
| Tiffany Yeung | Strings – Young Artists Category (Violin) | Canada |
| Yeeun Lee | Voice – Artists Category (Mezzo-Soprano) | South Korea |
2nd Place Cash Prize Winners ($300):
| Stephen Nguyen | Piano – Artists Category | Canada |
| Robert Choi | Strings – Young Artists Category (Cello) | Canada |
| Amy Moodie | Voice – Artists Category (Soprano) | Canada |
Best Overall Performance of a Canadian Composition ($150):
| Amy Moodie | Voice – Artists Category (Soprano) | Canada |
Outstanding Performance of a Canadian Composition ($100):
| Rafael Brisebois | Strings – Junior Talent Category (Violin) | Canada |
Gold Prizes:
| Eunhwa Lee | Piano – Artists Category | South Korea |
| Marin Chiba | Piano – Young Artists Category | Japan |
| Felipe Jiang | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Argentina |
| Jacob Clewell | Strings – Artists Category | USA |
| Griffin Linklater | Strings – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Rafael Brisebois | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Brianna DeSantis | Voice – Artists Category | Canada |
| Meiling Ji | Voice – Junior Talent Category | China |
Silver Prizes:
| Jui-Sheng Li | Piano – Artists Category | Taiwan |
| Nicole Linaksita | Piano – Artists Category | Canada |
| Hyejin Pak | Piano – Artists Category | South Korea |
| William Lin | Piano – Young Artists Category | China |
| Sue Wang | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Michelle Jia Yun Xu | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Matthieu Foresi | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Paul Wang | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Sarah Yang | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Luis Angel Medina | Strings – Artists Category | Canada |
| Sophie Baird-Daniel | Strings – Artists Category | USA |
| James Butler | Strings – Young Artists Category | USA |
| Davin Mar | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Victoria Wong | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Tamra Jones | Voice – Artists Category | USA |
| Jason Klippenstein | Voice – Artists Category | Canada |
| Stanford Guo | Voice – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Anjulie Djearam | Voice – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
Bronze Prizes:
| Vivian Chen | Piano – Artists Category | Canada |
| Renon Chiba | Piano – Artists Category | Japan |
| Benjamin Hopkins | Piano – Artists Category | USA |
| Xin Zhang | Piano – Artists Category | China |
| Yuan Zhuang | Piano – Artists Category | China |
| Angela Hu | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Jiwei Ruan | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Towa Stewart | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Ranfei Wang | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Yilang Zhou | Piano – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Edward Duan | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Brian Li | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Austin Ng | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Joshua Tromans | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Nina Wang | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Honoka Shoji | Strings – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Renee Hui | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Hong Kong |
| Eric Tang | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Diana Agasian | Voice – Artists Category | Canada |
| Shutong Zhang | Voice – Artists Category | China |
| Meilin (Mary) Guo | Voice – Junior Talent Category | China |
Certificates of Merit for Best Performance of a Canadian Composition:
| Nicole Linaksita | Piano – Artists Category | Canada |
| Annie Cao | Piano – Young Artists Category | China |
| Paul Wang | Piano – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Jacob Clewell | Strings – Artists Category | USA |
| Robert Choi | Strings – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Davin Mar | Strings – Junior Talent Category | Canada |
| Stanford Guo | Voice – Young Artists Category | Canada |
| Meiling Ji | Voice – Junior Talent Category | China |
Teachers of Cash Prize Winners:
Lee Kum Sing, Simon James, Peter Barcza, Corey McVicar, Conrad Chow, Dale Throness, Sara Laimon, Joseph Elworthy, Lorna MacDonald, and Antje Neumann
Teachers of Gold Medalists:
Antje Neumann, Sakai Ciharu, Steven Dann, Sophie Roland, Jerrica Santos, Ingrid Henderson, James Tocco, and Hanh Nguyen
Teachers of Silver Medalists:
Awadagin Pratt, Bradley Williams, Daniel Bolshoy, Debra DaVaughn, Donna Fishwick, Corey Hamm, Eugene Skovorodnikov, Jeremy Attanaseo, Joanne Hounsell, Rachel Haisell, Judy Loman, Manti Poon, Nicholas Rada, Peter Barcza, Kyoko Hashimoto, Rada Bukhman, Ronald Morgan, Tanya Shevtsov, Victor Shevtsov, and Yuri Zaidenberg
Teachers of Bronze Medalists:
Bernard Duerksen, Corey Hamm, Craig Sheppard, David Vandereyk, Diane King, Donna Fishwick, Edith Pun, Guang Yang, Irina Voro, Jerri Lee Mercer, Jessica Zhang, Kenneth Broadway, Kikuchi Reiko, Libby Yu, Lydia Wong, Miya Otake, Sergei Saratovsly, Shelley Roberts, Vicky Chen, and Vladimir Viardo
Photography by O.K. & Golden Lady
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