More than 100 students participated in the Cary Apex Piano Teachers Association’s annual Sonatina and Bullard competitions on Saturday, April 19, at the Cary School of Music.

The CAPTA Sonatina Competition is now in its 14th year. Sonatinas help to strengthen musicianship and develop an appreciation for classical repertoire.

The students who placed in the Sonatina Competition and performed at the Honors Recital are listed with their teachers:

Level A
First place, Mason Wellborn (Larry Miedreich)
Second place Amada Kalafian (Susan Tingley)
Honorable mention Jonathan Snead (Loogwah Kradlik)

Level B
First place, Sarah Summers (Roberta Thomason)
Second place Alice Wang (Betty McElrath)
Honorable mention Alexey Fayuk (Olga Jaynes)

Level C
First place, Trevor Cox (Thomason)
Second place, Kylie Wu (Bob, Knott)
Honorable mention, Stephanie Urban (Janelle Guthrie)

Level D
First place, Justin Luo (Svetlana Mungalova)
Second place, Katherine Combs (Jaynes)
Honorable mention, David Wang (Mungalova)

Level E
First place, Kagwe Muchane (Jaynes)
Second place, Sophia Hu (Jaynes)
Honorable mention, Ashlyn Batten (Thomason)

Judges for the Sonatina Competition were Marilyn Brown, Ann Patterson, Jeanine Skinner and Alma Sparks.

The Bullard Competition was established in honor of Elizabeth Bullard who taught piano in Cary until her death in the early 1980s.

The following students placed in the Bullard Competition and performed in the Honors Recital. They are listed with their teachers as follows:

Middle School First place, Erich Zheng (Zina Astrakhan) Second place, Daniel Dumitrescu (Jaynes) Honorable mention, Helen Qu (Brenda Bruce) Honorable mention, Rachael Rhee (Bruce) Honorable mention, Edward Zhao (Jaynes) Honorable mention, Brendan Kearney (Astrakhan)

High School First place, Claire Zeng (Bruce) Second place, James Montgomery (Thomason) Honorable mention, Victoria Walker (Jaynes) Honorable mention, Brinda Monian (Florence Ko) Honorable mention, James Ding (Jaynes) Honorable mention, Eric Metcalf (Astrakhan)

Judges for the Bullard Competition were Margaret Anne Smith and Dr. Richard McKee.

Local student wins Furman competititon
Juliana Jing of Cary won honorable mention in the Daniels Piano Competition at Furman University on March 21. Organizers of the competition chose 24 semifinalists from several hundred applicants to come to Greenville, S.C., and from those 24, six were chosen to play in the finals. On April 20 Jing was awarded the Senior Piano Scholarship by the Cary-Apex Piano Teachers Association, which she will use as a piano major at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been a student of Brenda Bruce of Cary for nine years.