Best Musicians
Meet the top musicians from our partner competitions.
TOP 2
1st
Sungyeon Park
Strings
South Korea
25
2nd
Philip Sarrouy
Vocal
France
18
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TOP 40
See the Top 40 ranking from the WAAO Tournament.
| Rank | Name | Section | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sungyeon Park | Strings | Korea | 25 |
| 2 | Philip Sarrouy | Vocal | France | 18 |
| 3 | Jingyi Li | Keyboard | China | 10 |
| 3 | Roman Naledin | Strings | Russia | 10 |
| 3 | Ivan Sendetsky | Strings | Russia | 10 |
| 3 | Isabella Ricci | Keyboard | Italy | 10 |
| 3 | Maria Hernandez | Strings | Spain | 10 |
| 3 | Liu Fang Hua | Strings | China | 10 |
| 3 | Rie Okamura | Winds | Japan | 10 |
| 3 | Daan De Vries | Keyboard | Netherlands | 10 |
| 3 | Wanyue Zhao | Keyboard | China | 10 |
| 3 | Nikos Papadopoulos | Vocal | Greece | 10 |
| 4 | Maximilian Weber | Keyboard | Germany | 8 |
| 4 | Mateo García | Strings | Spain | 8 |
| 4 | Alejandro Garcia | Strings | Spain | 8 |
| 4 | Luca Micheletto | Strings | Italy | 8 |
| 4 | Yushi Izumi | Strings | Japan | 8 |
| 4 | André Laurent | Keyboard | France | 8 |
| 4 | Erik Lindgren | Strings | Sweden | 8 |
| 4 | Li Wei Chen | Keyboard | China | 8 |
| 4 | Wang Zi Yue | Strings | China | 8 |
| 4 | Li Wei | Winds | Sweden | 8 |
| 4 | Sofia Mancini | Winds | Italy | 8 |
| 4 | Spyridon Alevras | Keyboard | Greece | 8 |
| 4 | Zhao Lei | Strings | China | 8 |
| 4 | Emma van den Berg | Vocal | Netherlands | 8 |
| 5 | Yuxuan Zhang | Strings | China | 7 |
| 5 | Wei Chen | Strings | China | 7 |
| 5 | Raúl Alberto Rolón Cañete | Strings | Paraguay | 7 |
| 5 | Nattakarn Kijrattanakarn | Strings | Thailand | 7 |
| 5 | Daniel Alejandro Fuentes Figueroa | Strings | Chile | 7 |
| 5 | Yuki Ichikawa | Keyboard | Japan | 7 |
| 5 | Iolanda Varricchio | Keyboard | Italy | 7 |
| 5 | Sophie Dubois | Strings | France | 7 |
| 5 | Olivia Wang | Winds | USA | 7 |
| 5 | Huang Ziyi | Winds | China | 7 |
| 5 | Arturo Mendoza Escobedo | Keyboard | Mexico | 7 |
| 5 | Wang Xinyu | Vocal | China | 7 |
| 5 | Emily Davis | Keyboard | USA | 7 |
| 5 | Kacper Nowak | Strings | Poland | 7 |
| 6 | Ayşe Bahar Turunç | Strings | Türkiye | 5 |
| 6 | Chinnawat Themkumkwun | Strings | Thailand | 5 |
| 6 | Sergei Romanov | Keyboard | Russia | 5 |
| 6 | Lin Tao | Strings | China | 5 |
Last Updated: August 21, 2026