Competition Winners

University of Louisville Guitar Competition Winners

2023

Youth Division I (under 15) 

  1. Alexandria Cutting 

  1. Lincoln Hall 

 

Youth Division II (15-18) 

  1. Owen Wang 

  1. Amanda Pazos 

  1. Asher Wedin 

  1. Griffen Farnsley 

 

Collegiate Division 

  1. Nik Divall 

  1. Owen Wang 

  1. Suvan Allagar 

  1. William Tanner 

 

Open Division 

  1. Gwenyth Allegler 

  1. Alvaro Henrique 

  1. Nik Divall 

  1. Jeremy Waldrip 

2022 

Youth Division 

  1. Leonardo Prado

  2. Noah Rairick 

  3. Asher Wedin 

  4. Amanda Pazos 

 

Collegiate Division 

  1. Parsa Sabet

  2. Mia Padilla 

  3. Zhengji Li

  4. Logan Wong

 

Open Division 

  1. Leonela Alejandro 

  2. Parsa Sabet

  3. Jeremy Waldrip 

  4. Chandler Dillingham 


2021

Youth Division

  1. Nathaniel Zsedenyi
  2. Noah Rairick
  3. Blake Logsdon

 

Collegiate Division

  1. Jack Osborne
  2. Joe Tollefsen
  3. Jake Giles
  4. Matt Wherley

 

Open Division (postponed to 2022)

 

2020

Youth Division

  1. Micha Rand
  2. Kassandra Hughes
  3. Paula Glaser
  4. Landon Vandergriff


Collegiate Division

  1. Gonzalo Peñalosa
  2. Jorge Manuel Atanacio López
  3. Jake Giles
  4. Logan Florence
  5. Maxwell Rothman


Open Division

  1. Gonzalo Peñalosa
  2. Chinnawat Themkumkwun
  3. Jasmin Lacasse Roy
  4. Alessandro Infante

 

2019 

Youth Division

1. Maxwell Rothman

2. Ian Tubbs

3. Kassandra Hughes


Collegiate Division

1. Leonela Alejandro

2. Jake Giles

3. Fangfang Liu


Open Division

1. Gonzolo Alonso 

2. Samuel Hines

3. Evan Taucher

4. YunZhe Lin

 

2018

Youth Division

1. Naia Andrews

2. Josefina Stone

3. Noah Rairick

4. Henry Davidson


Collegiate Division

1. Liam Hedrick

2. Brandon Walker

3. Jakob Giles

4. Andrew Ramsey

 

Solo Artist Division

1. Jesus Serrano Huitron

2. Samuel Hines

3. Christopher Mrofchak

4. Matthew Gillen

 

2017

Youth Division:

1. Gabriela Hertel

2. Michael Bremmer

 

Collegiate Division:

1. Jeremy Waldrip

2. Liam Hedrick

3. Jonno Garver

4. Jakob Giles

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Andrew Wilder

2. Samuel Hines

3. Evan Taucher

4. Marco Villa

 

2016

Youth Division:

1. Liam Hedrick

2. Kieran Waigel

3. Benjamin Duncan

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Ilie Dragos

2. Jesus Serrano

3. Nicholas Emilfork

4. Noe Garcia

 

2015

Youth Division:

1. Hannah Wade

2. Craig Salgh

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Stephen Lochbaum

2. Austin Wahl

3. Naeim Rahmani

4. Eli Schille-Hudson

 

2014

Youth Division:

1. Jeremy Waldrip

2. Hannah Wade

3. Craig Salgh

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Jeremy Collins

2. Stephen Lochbaum

3. Steven Cowan

4. Matthew Rohde

Honorable mention: Marco Villa

 

2012

Youth Division I (ages 14 and under):

1. Mallory Richards

2. Hannah Wade

 

Youth Division II (ages 15-18):

1. Joseph Douglas

2. Victoria Medley

3. Devin Brown

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Joseph Palmer

2. Celil Refik Kaya

3. Jeremy Collins

4. Antoniy Kakamakov

 

2011

Youth Division:

1. Toby James

2. Audra Vigil

3. Joseph Douglas

 

Solo Artist Division:

1. Brendan Evans

2. Zhivkov Nikolov

3. Jeremy Collins

4. Gideon Whitehead

Honorable mention: John Marcel Williams

 

2010

Solo Artist Division:

1. You Wang

2. Brendan Evans

3. Gideon Whitehead

4. Maja Radovanliga