George S. Manos High School Piano Competition
In-Person Competition
Competition Date: March 30, 2025, 9am
Application deadline: March 9, 2025, 11:59pm
Apply Online
Location
Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase
7931 Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Fees
A $35 nonrefundable application fee is required by the deadline. Online only applications require this to be paid via credit card.
Eligibility
Piano students who are currently enrolled in grades 9-12, living within a 50-mile radius of Washington, DC.
*First-place winners from previous years are ineligible.
Awards
- First Prize: $1,500
- Second Prize: $1,000
- Third Prize: $700
Winners will be presented at a student concert later in the season. All winners, including honorable mention, receive a 5-year Student Membership in the Friday Morning Music Club.
Repertoire
- All selections must be performed from memory.
- Any questions regarding repertoire should be sent to the competition chair.
- All decisions made by the judges are final.
- No changes in repertoire may be made after the application deadline.
- Students must play works from each of the following four categories:
- A prelude and fugue from either volume of the Well Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach, or two other comparable pieces from the Baroque Period.
- The first movement of a sonata by Beethoven (excluding Op. 49), Mozart (excluding K 545), Haydn (excluding early Divertimenti), or Schubert.
- A substantial work from the Romantic Period.
- An impressionist work or a work from the 20th or 21st century.
Contact
Chen-Li Tzeng
Piano Competition Chair
highschoolpiano@fmmc.org
If you experience technical difficulties, need to make a change to your application, or realize you’ve made an error, please email Chen-Li, as well as FMMC Managing Director, Laila Linden, at manage@fmmc.org.
2025 Competition Winners
- First Prize/The George Manos Piano Prize: Zack Lam, Richard Montgomery High School, 11th Grade
- Second Prize: Clark Hu, River Hill High School, 11th Grade
- Third Prize: Derek Yang, Winston Churchill High School, 11th Grade
- Honorable Mention: Brandon Sang-Zheng, Thomas Jefferson High School, 9th Grade, Yuhan Li, National Cathedral School, 11th Grade
