2026 Youth Music Awards Performance Adjudicators
Jeanell Carrigan AM
Diana Springford
2026 Youth Music Awards Performance Winners
Performance Winners
1st Edwin VO 16yrs Clarinet
2nd Gabrielle THAI 15yrs Violin
3rd Emmaline XU 17yrs Trombone
People's Choice Winner
Gabrielle THAI, 15yrs Violin
Promising Talent
Lucy HALLAM 16yrs French Horn
Youngest Finalist
Alena DUNPHY 13yrs Voice
Music Theatre Award
Allee REYNOLDS, 16yrs Voice
Opera Award
Not Awarded 2026
Folk Festival Award
Alexander WU 16yrs Alto Saxophone
HC
Anneke CHAPPELOW 18yrs Voice
Oliver KORBEL 13yrs Alto saxophone
Jasmine MURRAY 14yrs Voice
Melody Jia Ai TAN 14yrs Piano
Caitlin WOLF 16yrs Flute
2026 Youth Music Awards Composition Adjudicators
Waratah Section: Wendy Hiscocks
Banksia Section: Andrew Ford OAM
2026 Youth Music Awards Composition Winners
Banksia Section
Theme :"City Life"
*Age is at date composition submitted
1st Seraphim HARYJANTO 17yrs - “Cat in Chroma”
2nd Lucy HALLAM 16yrs - “City Life”
3rd Oliver ROBERTSON 14yrs - “Birchgrove”
Singer Songwriter
Erin MIRIGLIANI 14yrs - “City Life”
Promising Talent
Sarah SHARPLES 18yrs - “The Bright Side"
Folk Festival Award
Gabrielle THAI 14yrs - “Day In The Life Of A City Busker”
Finalist
Nathanael CLAPHAM 14yrs - “Just Your Average City”
Caillan HUMPHREYS 17yrs - “Pilot”
Melody Jia Ai TAN 14yrs - “City Life”
Waratah Section
Theme: "Landscapes"
*Age is at date composition submitted
1st Edmund HUANG 18yrs - “Bei Variations”
2nd Tayla BUTTARO CURTIS 18yrs - “Hydrology”
3rd Orin KIM NARUSHIMA 19yrs - “Hanging Gardens”
Finalist
Alex PUTRA 18yrs - “Under a Tuscan Sky”
Alexander WU 16yrs - “Mirage”