2026 Young Composers Showcase
We are thrilled to release the Young Composers Showcase!
A record breaking 130 compositions from students across the state were submitted to the Young Composers Project (YCP),
and twenty compositions were selected to move forward to the masterclass/showcase.
Please enjoy these amazing compositions by Maryland students!
Notation
DAW/ Songs
2025 Young Composers Showcase Videos
Notation - Elementary and Middle
Matthew Tritone (8th Grade) - Thunder
Jenny Yu (7th Grade) - Musical Passport
Desmond Willis (8th Grade) - La Folia Variations, for Double Bass
Joseph Manfra (7th Grade) - Empire
Katelyn Barber (6th Grade) - Ode to Yoshi
Livia Chu (4th Grade) - Sapphire Rain
DAW, Notation, and Songwriter -
Elementary to 9th Grade
Liam Burget (9th Grade) - The Beckon of the Black Tree
Robert Nernesian (5th Grade) - Dance With My Valentine
Katie Wang (7th Grade) - Winds In The Woods
Lee Fregeau (9th Grade) - Rising Tides
Ethan Jones (8th Grade) - Darkness Awakens
Lydia Wilson (5th Grade) - Raindrop Tarantella
Notation and Songwriter -
10th to 12th Grades
Nathan D. Harris-Sellman (10th Grade) - UnWorldly
Eric Yang (11th Grade) - Quintet in C minor
Phoebe Camille Dias and Hamsini Bellamkonda (11th Grade) -
The Way I Am
Sasha Russey (11th Grade) - Symphonic Poem No. 1
Evelyn Trackman (12th Grade) - No Big Deal
Will Bresson (12th Grade) - The Third Sonata
DAW, Notation, and Songwriter -
10th to 12th Grades
Keith Ivey (11th Grade) - …And Her Family Called Her Shirl
Rhaxma Lyons (12th Grade) - Morning’s Kaleidoscope
Mattias van Andel (11th Grade) - Interstellar
Maxwell E. Bocklage (11th Grade) - Voyage
Ta-Nya Thomas (12th Grade) - Harmony
Rachel Parkinson (11th Grade) - Bad Ending
2024 Young Composers Showcase Videos
DAW and Songwriting
Trent Woelfer (12th Grade) - Epiphany
Roy Fischman (10th Grade) - Zone C
India Gould (5th Grade) - Rough Waters
Cormic Mehaffey-Grauer (7th Grade) - Eternity
Notation, Elementary and Middle Grades
Lee Fregeau (8th Grade) - Wintergreen
Marcus DiSalvo (8th Grade) - Storia D’Amore
Matthew Tritone (7th Grade) - Deep Sea
Livia Chu (3rd Grade) - Dance of Lion
Sevyn Singletary (8th Grade) - Forever And A Day
Notation, 9th and 10th Grades
Gabriel Elias Lazaga-Lucila (9th Grade) - Voyager On The Horizon
Alex Tingle (10th Grade) - Nimbostratus
Sean Marshall (10th Grade) - New Day Rising
Jesse Kliman (10th Grade) - Gigue in E flat
Sean Wang (10th Grade) - Kaleidoscope
Maxwell Bocklage (10th Grade) - Leicht
Austin Suchy (10th Grade) - Virtuosa
Notation, 11th and 12th Grades
Lumina Zhang (11th Grade) - Sonata Movement 2
Zachary Singer (11th Grade) - String Secrets
Isaiah DeLeonard (11th Grade) - Meadows
Adam Azrieli (12th Grade) - Chasm
Patrick Li (11th Grade) - Wondering
Jordan Hahm (11th Grade) - Sonata in G Minor
2023 Young Composers Showcase Videos
DAW
Jonathan Alexis, Fight Like an Ancient Egyptian
Andrew Donoho, Flooded Dreams
Jennifer Gao, Brink of Time's Wheel
Arjan Ghertner Espinoza, 2000 Forest
Trenton Woelfer, Ascension Reprise
Notation (Large Ensemble)
Adam Azrieli, New Wings
Maxwell Bocklage, The Heir to Avalon
Lee Fregeau, Storm
Bakhari S. Nokuri, Prayers and Tribulation
Notation (Small Ensemble)
Henry Golden, Wanderings
Jesse Kliman, Mourner's Kaddish
Michael Maroney, Snow at Sea
Prithvi Ram, Fantasy in G
Nathan Wilets, Change Up
Songwriting
Ava Beckman, Perfect
Catalina Bump, Age of Discovery
Emily He, Divided
Sophia Sincavage and Chiara Tripodi, Nightmare
Magdalena Steckler, Aphrodite