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Castleknock Music Competition Winners 2026

Strings 

Vocal

Instrumental Repertoire & Chamber Music

MOZART 270  award - for the best performance

of music by W.A.Mozart in the competition 2026​​​

Luke Yu

The John Gibson Cup and a cash prize

of 100 euro for the overall winner in Piano      ​​​

Maeve Åshamar Hora

EMS Cup and a cash prize of 100 euro

for the overall winner in Wind and Brass   â€‹â€‹â€‹

Michael Healy, Brian Clinton,
Iris De Mot Diez, Matei Balasca     â€‹â€‹â€‹

Castleknock Music Festival Strings

Competition Cup and a cash prize of 100 euro

for the overall winner in Strings    ​​​

Róise Ní Laoire

Castleknock Music Festival Vocal

Competition Cup and a cash prize of 100 euro

for the overall winner in Vocal  â€‹â€‹â€‹

Aoife Mancho

The Stanislav Cup for the best Guitar

performance throughout the competitions  ​​

Simon Grogan

​The Cathal Gannon Cup for the best Early Music

performance throughout the competitions      ​​​

Evan Zikuan Tong

Piano

​Piano Under 18

  • 1st Juliette Hurley O'Dwyer

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Adult Solo Piano

  • 2nd Jindrich Rosendorf

  • 2nd Maeve Åshamar Hora

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​Piano Duet Under 18

  • 1st Rian Ni & Eileen Fan

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Piano Duet Repertoire Under 18

  • 1st Quintus Lin & Arabella Lin 

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Piano Repertoire Under 12

  • 1st Jane Luo

  • 2nd Luke Yu

  • HC Hannah Piao

  • C Jake Striska

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Piano Repertoire Under 18

  • 1st Dylan Keane

  • 2nd Ke Xin He

  • HC Fergal Hills

  • C Yihan Jasmine Chen

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Senior Piano Repertoire

  • 1st Maeve Åshamar Hora

  • 2nd Aidan Keane â€‹

Piano Prizewinners 2026

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Piano Debut

  • 1st Ksenia Bahnari

  • 2nd Eva Ciubuc

  • HC Antonia Carastan

  • HC Daniel McBarron

  • HC Alisa Semenova

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Piano Under 8

  • 1st Aidan Duggan

  • 2nd John McCallion

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Piano Under 10

  • 1st Yifei Wang

  • 2nd Aaron Yueming Zhang

  • VHC Richard Ni

  • VHC Kaiqing Zhang

  • VHC Jane Jiayin Luo

  • HC Austin Haoen Gu

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Piano Under 12

  • 1st Luke Yu

  • 1st Kate McCallion

  • VHC Yifei Gu

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Piano Under 14

  • 1st Rebecca Yu

  • 1st James O'Brien

  • 1st Emily Yaning Liu

 

Piano Under 16

  • 1st Alex Platsas

  • 2nd Yihan Jasmine Chen

  • VHC Tom McMahon

  • VHC Grace Wu

  • C Lolo Elliott

Woodwind & Brass

Woodwind and Brass Prizewinners 2026

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Debut Wind & Brass

  • 1st Kilian Keating

  • 2nd Olivier Venter

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Wind & Brass Under 12

  • 1st Linda Chen

  • 2nd Mili Du

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Wind & Brass Under 14​

  • 1st Vincent McCullagh

 

Wind & Brass Under 18

  • 1st Aran Cahalan

 

Adult Solo Wind & Brass

  • 1st Aran Cahalan​

Strings

Strings Prizewinners 2026

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Strings Under 8

  • 1st Tessa James

  • 2nd Sebastian D'Ambrosio-Hendrick

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Strings Under 10

  • 1st Sophie Shannon

  • 2nd Ethan Salter

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Strings Under 12​

  • 1st Niamh Zou

  • 1st Ciara James

  • 2nd Wan-Tung Tsai

  • VHC Nayi Ren

  • HC Aadya Haarish

Strings Under 14

  • 1st Evan Zikuan Tong (Violin&Viola)

  • 2nd Linden Chen

  • HC Bonnie Mooney

​​Strings Under 16

  • 1st Shirley Lu

  • 1st  Luke Joyce

  • 2nd Yinhe Dou​


Adult Solo Strings​

  • 1st  Simon Gorgan

  • 1st Joanna Szlachta

 

Strings - Special Category: Electric Guitar
1st  Oisín McCarthy Curtin

1st  Eli McCarthy Curtin

Vocal

Vocal Prizewinners 2026

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Vocal Debut

  • 1st Ksenia Bahnari

  • 2nd Diana Kuznecova

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Vocal Under 8

  • 1st Stella Feeley

 

Vocal Under 10

  • 1st Emma Tysiacnaja

  • 2nd Maria Abin

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Vocal Under 12

  • 1st Jane Luo

  • 2nd Carla Hurley O’Dwyer

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​Vocal Under 14

  • 1st Hannah Brady

Vocal Under 16 Classical

  • 1st Thomas Scott

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​Vocal Under 16 Contemporary

  • 1st Bethlehem Shibsa

 

Vocal Under 18 Classical

  • 1st Grace Hanley

  • 2nd Róise Carroll

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Vocal Under 18 Contemporary

  • 1st Aoife Mancho

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Adult Vocal Classical​

  • 1st Carolina Maldonado

  • 2nd Emma Egan

 

​Vocal Repertoire Under 18 Classical

  • 1st Grace Hanley​

Instrumenal Repertoire

Instrumental Repertoire &

Chamber Music Prizewinners 2026

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Instrumental Repertoire Under 12

  • 1st Ciara James

  • 2nd Linda Chen

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Instrumental Repertoire Under 18

  • 1st Claudia Duffy

  • 1st Evan Zikuan Tong

  • 2nd Shirley Lu

  • 2nd Aniela Lipinska

  • VHC Linden Chen

  • VHC Luke Joyce

  • VHC Joanna Szlachta

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Adult Instrumental Repertoire

  • 1st Róise Ní Laoire

  • 2nd Ira Schwitzer

  • VHC Peixuan Liu​


Chamber Music - Advanced

  • 1st Michael Healy, Brian Clinton, Iris De Mot Diez, Matei Balasca

  • 2nd Jindrich Rosendorf, Linda Langova, Stella Stichova

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