Creating Original Music Project (COMP) K-12 Competition
COMP, the Creating Original Music Project, is directed at younger composers:
- A statewide competition that recognizes Missouri students (K-12) who compose original works in a variety of musical styles. Winning composers and their schools will be awarded cash prizes and performances at the University of Missouri. This year's COMP festival will take place Saturday, April 18, 2026.
- Participants must submit a verification form along with their application, signed by their parents and teacher/sponsor.
- Including the upcoming 2026 edition, COMP has facilitated the performance of 478 works by K-12 students from over 108 communities across Missouri, celebrating 21 years of bringing the joy of music to the state.
The Creating Original Music Project is sponsored by an annual gift from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
Young Composers: Missouri Students from Grades K-12, including those homeschooled, are eligible to submit an original piece to the Creating Original Music Project.
K-12 Music Teachers: Each student who applies must have the signature and sponsorship of their school's music teacher. Schools that win prizes from the program must provide the opportunity for their young musicians to perform their pieces in their schools.
Not-for-profit Community Organizations: Community agencies, churches, after-school programs, etc. may sponsor their young musicians in partnership with the student's school music teacher.
Private studio teachers and other musical mentors: Private teachers and other musical mentors may sponsor a young musician in partnership with the student's school music teacher.
Note: While adjudication of all applications is anonymous, we wish to avoid any appearance of impropriety; therefore, compositions written by children of Mizzou faculty or staff are eligible to win but ineligible to receive cash prizes. Associated school music programs are still eligible to receive monetary prizes.
All entries must be original music written by the student, and only one entry per student is allowed. Arrangements of previously composed pieces or improvisation of already composed pieces will not be accepted. Music teachers and/or musical mentors may only assist students in notating or recording the pieces. The organizing committee encourages mentors and teachers to support young musicians and critique their work, though it must be the students' own and original composition.
Elementary, Kindergarten through Grade 5:
- Songs with words (in any language) - students may submit notated or recorded entries. All languages welcome!
- Instrumental pieces - students may submit notated or recorded entries.
Middle, Grades 6 through 8:
- Notated Music - only notated entries will be accepted. Instrumentation may include any combination of a mixed chamber ensemble (no more than 6 instruments) from the following list: piano, percussion, violin, cello, flute, and clarinet. If writing for other instrumentation or vocal music, submissions will still be considered but MU does not guarantee performers for the festival.
- Popular Genres - examples include rock, electronic (hip-hop, production, etc.), folk (singer-songwriter, bluegrass, folk songs, old-time music, etc.), alternative, etc. Two subcategories accepted:
- Acoustic recordings.
- Electronically produced music.
High School, Grades 9 through 12:
- Notated Music - only notated entries accepted. Instrumentation may include mixed chamber ensemble (no more than 6 instruments): piano, percussion, violin, cello, flute, and clarinet. If writing for other instrumentation or vocal music, submissions will still be considered but MU does not guarantee performers for the festival.
- Popular Genres - Examples include rock, electronic (hip-hop, production, etc.), folk (singer-songwriter, bluegrass, folk songs, old-time music, etc.), alternative, etc. Two subcategories accepted:
- Acoustic recordings.
- Electronically produced music.
- Jazz - Two subcategories accepted:
- Lead sheets
- Big Band charts (notated orchestrations of music composed for big band)
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- COMP's judges reserve the right to reassign a submission to a different category than the applicant's selection if another genre seems more appropriate.
- COMP's judges will only award the highest-quality submissions and, therefore, reserve the right not to offer an award if there are an insufficient number of high-quality submissions in a particular category.
- MNMI does not guarantee a live performance of all the selected winners if a piece's instrumentation falls outside of the instrumentation recommendations.
All entries must be original music written by the student. Arrangements of previously composed pieces or improvisation based on composed pieces will not be accepted.
The composition may be written for NO MORE than six performers, and may be between 1 - 5 minutes in length for the junior division (elementary and junior high) and 3 - 8 minutes in length for the senior (high school) division. No prize will be awarded to schools not listed on the application. Only one submission per applicant is allowed. Pieces composed during the Missouri Summer Composition Institute (Summer COMP) are ineligible.
Music teachers and/or musical mentors may assist students in notating or recording the pieces. Mentors and teachers are encouraged to support young musicians and may critique their work, though the submissions must be the students' own and original compositions. Each student who applies must have the signature and sponsorship of her/his school's music teacher.
Welcome teachers! We're excited to have your students participate in our program this year. Here are some guidelines about the program for you to keep in mind as you help your students prepare to submit their applications:
- Up to five submissions per category per school will be accepted. It is the responsibility of the school music teacher(s) to decide which five pieces per category will be entered in the contest.
- All entries must be original music written by the student. Arrangements of previously composed pieces or improvisation based on composed pieces will not be accepted.
- The composition may be written for no more than six performers to be considered for a live performance, and may be between 1 - 5 minutes in length for the junior division (elementary and junior high) and 3 - 8 minutes in length for the senior (high school) division.
- Only one submission per applicant is allowed.
- No prize will be awarded to schools not listed on the application.
- Pieces composed during the Missouri Summer Composition Institute (Summer COMP) are ineligible.
- In the case of pieces with multiple composers, each contributor must submit a separate application form. All of these forms must accompany the submission in the same envelope.
Please make sure there are no identifying marks other than the title of the composition on the submitted score. Do not put the name of the composer(s) or school on the score.
Winning composers and schools will each receive cash prizes from the Creating Original Music Project in the following amounts:
High School (9-12)
High School Notated Music: 1st Place $1,250.00
High School Notated Music: 2nd Place $1,000.00
High School Notated Music: 3rd Place $750.00
High School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 1st place $1,250.00
High School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 2nd place $1,000.00
High School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 3rd place $750.00
High School Jazz Big Band Chart*: 1st Place $1,250.00
High School Jazz Big Band Chart*: 2nd Place $1,000.00
High School Jazz Big Band Chart*: 3rd Place $750.00
OR
High School Jazz Lead Sheet*: 1st Place $500.00
High School Jazz Lead Sheet*: 2nd Place $400.00
High School Jazz Lead Sheet*: 3rd Place $300.00
*Winners for the entire jazz category will be chosen from lead sheets or full big band charts, with dollar amounts awarded accordingly.
Middle School (6-8)
Middle School Notated Music: 1st Place $1,000.00
Middle School Notated Music: 2nd Place $500.00
Middle School Notated Music: 3rd Place $300.00
Middle School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 1st Place $1,000.00
Middle School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 2nd Place $500.00
Middle School Popular Genres (Acoustic or Produced): 3rd Place $300.00
Elementary School (K-5)
Elementary School Instrumental Music: 1st Place $300.00
Elementary School Instrumental Music: 2nd Place $200.00
Elementary School Instrumental Music: 3rd Place $100.00
Elementary School Songs With Words: 1st Place $300.00
Elementary School Songs With Words: 2nd Place $200.00
Elementary School Songs With Words: 3rd Place $100.00
Each winner's school music program will also receive the following awards:
1st Place High School: $1,250.00
2nd Place High School: $1,000.00
3rd Place High School: $750.00
1st Place Middle School: $1,000.00
2nd Place Middle School: $750.00
3rd Place Middle School: $500.00
1st Place Elementary School: $750.00
2nd Place Elementary School: $500.00
3rd Place Elementary School: $350.00
*For works written by multiple composers, the award amount will be divided evenly among the winning composers. Only the composer will receive an award when the winner is a homeschooled student. Judges will award three total entries in the Jazz category, and may choose winners from both the Big Band and/or Lead Sheet categories.
Compositions awarded 1st through 3rd place will be performed at the Creating Original Music Project Festival held in April each year at the University of Missouri. All winning composers are expected to attend the festival for the performance of their original pieces. In addition, schools that win prizes from the program are encouraged to provide the opportunity for their young musicians to perform their pieces in their schools. Composers awarded Honorable Mention are encouraged to attend the festival but will not have their music publicly performed.
Judges will rank the compositions from first to last in each category. If they believe that none of the compositions in a given category merit an award, they may decline to make an award for that category. Applicants will receive comments (approximately three to five sentences) about their work, but no information about their rankings.
Visit the last COMP program and live-stream concerts!
Past Winners
High School Notated
- First place: Amalgamation by Daniel Sedyankov
- Second place: Harmonies Book One, for two pianos tuned a quartertone apart by Andrew Kahler
- Third place: Updraft by Cohen Nguyen
- Honorable mention: Prélude for Cello and Piano by Moses Pavon
Middle School Notated
- First place: Variations on a Memory by Sam Finkel
- Second place: A Short Piece for String Quartet by Ethan Schacke
- Third place: Sonata No. 1 in D Minor for Violin and Piano by Rowan Seidman
- Honorable mention: The Floating Carousel by Priya Lad
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Stormy Castle by Nicholas Mehta
- Second place: Grün Regen (Green Rain) by Avery Francisco
- Third place: The Final Thaw by Theodore Alexander
- Honorable mention: Searching by Nathan Bergin
Jazz Lead Sheet
- First place: Sapphire Guy by Mara Queen
- Second place: Powdered Donuts by Nathan Buckwalter
- Third place: Walk on By by Allison Scott
- Honorable mention: One Man Quartet by Noah James
High School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Jester (Eat, Sleep, Gamble, Repeat) by Olyssa Herico
- Second place: Hotel Hos(tile) by Hunter Hilson
- Third place: In All of My Life by Brody Vestal
- Honorable mention: Midwest Freak Girl (demo ii)/ Babyboy (v2)/ speakermurder by John Timothy "Jack" Maguire
- Honorable mention: Byte of Nostalgia by Wyatt Weatherford
High School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Coffee at Noon by Maddie Huckabay
- Second place: Hercules by Isaac Walker
- Third place: Just Because by Paloma Greim
- Honorable mention: What Love Should Be by Chace Curtis
- Honorable mention: Hand Hearts by Brendan Rieth
Middle School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Incandescent Filament by Grayson Lea
- Second place: Security Tower by Aayden Leftridge
- Third place: The Fall of Gods by Oscar Schneiderjohn
Middle School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Parasite by Alister Smith
- Second place: Nothing Ever Changes by Luke Wilson
- Third place: Arctic Odyssey by Elijah Gwyn
- Honorable mention: Within These Chords by Ian Sutton
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Midnight Swims by Susannah Hooker
- Second place: cuz u my baby by Joseph Salami
- Third place: Wings by Mary Bleyer
- Honorable mention: The pretzel blues by Oleksander Luczak
- Honorable mention: rawr, rawr, dinosaur by Elijah Edginton
High School Notated
- First place: Drei Kleine Stücke by Andrew Kahler
- Second place: Humoresque by Moses Pavon
- Third place: Apparitions of an Oasis by Mason Piterick
- Honorable mention: The Creative Process by Nathan Buckwalter
- Honorable mention: Freylekh Soul by Hannah Wollkowitz
- Honorable mention: The Adventure of a Lifetime by Adrian Sterk
High School Jazz
- First place: Big Bandit by Evan Kenneth Mabary
- Second place: Breeze From Brazil by Isaac Faust
Middle School Notated
- First place: Piano Trio No. 1 by Rowan Seidman
- Second place: Dance of the Strings by Evan Hilbert
- Third place: Umori del Vento by Mary Anderson
- Honorable mention: Life, Death, and Love by Luke Vogel
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Piano Trio No. 1 by Sam Finkel
- Second place: The Dinosaur Forces Combined by Avery Francisco
- Third place: Rainbow Rain by Nicholas Mehta
- Honorable mention: Treble Rag Rock by Kaitlyn Paik
High School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Scenarios by Henry E. Lammers
- Second place: Think of Me by Tony Campanella
- Third place: Incessant Intolerability by Gerald Brown
- Honorable mention: Get the Girl by Olyssa Herico
High School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Break-Up Song by Maddie Huckabay
- Second place: Pretty by Brendan Rieth
- Third place: The Rock, Pacific by Paloma Greim
- Honorable mention: Happily Ever After by Rebecca Stanford
Middle School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Pink Skies by Ian Lundholm
- Second place: Exxtra Exxtra Drippy Sauce by Cohl McTyer
Middle School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Someone to Lean On by Ada Clark
- Second place: Different Ways by Lacie Reetz
- Third place: Perilous Journey by Elijah Gwyn
- Third place: Step 17 by Samanth Creasy, Jonah Meyer, Bennet Pieper, Ryder Sexton
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Call on Me by Samantha Schick
- Second place: Hey, Sunshine! by Alouisa Marcantonio
- Third place: Tiny Things by Susannah Hooker
- Honorable mention: Rainfall by Hadleigh Atterberry, Avery Barnhart, Ella Blevins
High School Notated
- First place: Naked Trees by Yueheng Wang
- Second place: Escape the Candy Factory by Nathan Buckwalter
- Third place: They Are All Gone by Hannah Wollkowitz
- Honorable mention: Tavern by Cohen Nguyen
High School Jazz
- First place: Funk Burger by Collin Scott
- Second place: Nautical Daydreams by Allison Scott
Middle School Notated
- First place: Galactic Desires by Daniel Sedyankov
- Second place: In The Castle by Bryce Boudreau
- Third place: Fury of the Rattlesnake by Niveah Wilson
- Honorable mention: Argomento del Quartetto d'archi by Johann Uhl
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: String Quartet No. 1 by Sam Finkel
- First place: Snowy Mountain by Anna Bergin
- Second place: Neon Dreams by Leland Baker
- Third place: Majestic by Rowan Seidman
- Honorable mention: The Unknown Creature of the Darkness by Avery Francisco
High School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Stars by Henry E. Lammers
- Second place: Black Widow by Reagan Sheedy
- Third place: Awake At Night by Wyatt Weatherford
High School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Ivory Sheets by Stone Gill
- Second place: Beautiful Broom by Andrew Allen
- Third place: Foldable Piano by Ovya Diwakaran
- Honorable mention: If the Day were the Night by Lily Schaumburg
- Honorable mention: For Sale Sign by Eason Beezley
Middle School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Zoomer by Ian Lundholm
- Second place: Shining Star by Elizabeth Griffin
- Third place: Afterburn by Noah Cates
Middle School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Red Leaves by Chace Curtis
- Second place: Invigorating Rain by Elijah Gwyn
- Third place: On Fire by Brody Vestal
- Honorable mention: Monsters by Blakely Cooper
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: The Sky Song by Jo Ault
- Second place: Level Up by Cohl McTyer
- Third place: I Wish I Could by Beckett Crawford
- Honorable mention: Be With Me by Alouisa Marcantonio
High School Notated
- First place: Strawberry Shortcake by Hannah Wollkowitz
- Second place: The Red Giant by Yuheng Wang
- Third place: Clouds Untouched by Matthew Hilger
- Honorable mention: Suite pour trois violoncelles by Eli Parks
High School Jazz
- First place: Bittersweet Tangerine by Quincy Meyer
- Second place: They Groovy Ghost by Eli Minasian
Middle School Notated
- First place: Caught by Daniel Sedyankov
- Second place: Ominous Adventure by Skye Gash
- Third place: The Jazzy Lounge by Isaac Faust
- Honorable mention: Fading Memories by Isabelle Ortis
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Snow Day by Theodore Alexander
- Second place: A Spider Web by Clara Watson
- Third place: Jaunty Biggelo by Luke Stegner
- Honorable mention: The Lonely Ladybug by Angie Sexton, Rachel Meyer, Meghan Piper, Katie Mixner, Melissa Creasy
High School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Shallow by Stone Gill
- Second place: A Familiar Place (VIP) by Caleb Matthew Hauptmann
- Third place: The Ocean Burns by Henry Lammers
High School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Chess by Ovya Diwakaran
- Second place: Friends Forever by Andrew Wilkie
- Third place: Un Hilo Del Sol by Liam David Rocha Colin
Middle School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: Restless by Wyatt Weatherford
Middle School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Hope by Rebecca Stanford
- Second place: What Happens Next by Abigail Harmon
- Third place: Finally Found You by Abbey Hamm
- Third place: She's No Barbie Girl by Rebecca Ninemire
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Flowers by Hannah Reetz
- Second place: You Just Gotta Know by Brianne Holden
- Third place: I Know a Thing or Two by Shelby Cooper
- Honorable mention: Snow Day by Easton Bankery
High School Notated
- First place: The March of the Cornstalks and the Soybean King of Westphalia by Quincy Meyer
- Second place: Fading Mirage by Yueheng Wang
- Third place: Variations on a Theme by Bach by Eliot Blackmoore
High School Jazz
- First place: Easy Does It by Henry Rusten
- Second place: None Of It by Yoell Tewolde
- Third place: Cafe Morning by Elliott Bryant
Middle School Notated
- First place: The Final Sunrise by Nathan Crutchley
- Second place: The Seasons' Song by Isabelle Ortis
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: The Dark Dance by Reichen Bechtel
- Second place: Raiding the Cookie Jar by Conrad Crutchley
- Third place: Palindrome by Owen Heimann
High School Pop
- First place: Reckless by Jordin MacKenzie
- Second place: Living Through the Night by Lucy Gray Hamilton
- Third place: Monopoly by Ovya Diwakaran
Middle School Pop
- First place: My Paps Song by Violet Martin
- Second place: Anything, Everything by Madelyn Hazlett
- Third place: Hidden Oceans by Rebecca Ninemire
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: First Snow by Lacie Reetz
- Second place: Dancin' Dreams by Hannah Reetz
High School Notated
- First place: Dance in G for Woodwind Octet by Brady Perkins
- Second place: 2020 by Brandon Kim
- Third place: Brass 'n Gas by David McCaulley
Middle School Notated
- First place: Lingering Reflection by Yueheng Wang
- Second place: Le Hébétement by Samir Shaik
- Third place: Locked by Hannah Wollkowitz
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Infiltration by Conrad Crutchley
- Second place: Endless by Ian Lundholm
High School Pop – Electronically Produced
- First place: 96 DiCaprio by Jordin MacKenzie
- Second place: The Moon by Stone Gill
- Third place: Moon Water by Thomas Libbert
High School Pop – Acoustic
- First place: Cards Are Dealt by Ovya Diwakaran
- Second place: The Color of You by Rylee Spencer
- Third place: Dear Molly by Kaiden Doebelin
Middle School Pop
- First place: Maybe It's by Faye Boland
- Second place: Tide by Jocelin Murray
- Third place: What I Did by Violet Martin
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: The Lion Song by Lacie Reetz
- Second place: The Thunderbird by Hanna Reetz
- Third place: Aria for Nyx by Benjamin Stoker
High School Notated
- First place: The Sands of Time by Brandon Kim
- Second place: Dialogue and Delusion by Olivia Bennett
- Third place: A Sneaking Suspicion by Atticus Schlegel
High School Jazz
- First place: Sweet Girl by Samantha Fierke
- Second place: Summer Break by Eli Minasian
- Third place: Groove Grave by Adam Routt
Middle School Notated
- First place: Nostalgia by Yueheng Wang
- Second place: Rêve Éternel by Ovya Diwakaran
- Third place: Carousel by Samir Shaik
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Into a Dream by Isaac Faust
- Second place: Hunters' Chorus by Om Garine
- Third place: The Dark of Night by Brendan Wich
High School Pop
- First place: Mood by Ariel Fansler
- Second place: Boy Allergies by Darcie A. Hingula
- Third place: Holy Ground by Cooper Carr
Middle School Pop
- First place: Inception by Stone Gill
- Second place: Love Will Never Lose by Mila Perez
- Third place: Winter Is In My Eyes by Lucy Gray Hamilton
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: We're Gone by Benjamin Stoker
- Second place: Tryin' to Write a Song by Lacie Reetz
- Third place: Not Anymore by Lily Lagergren
High School Notated
- First place: Diabolical Dances by Brandon Kim
- Second place: Three Cryptics by Olivia Bennett
- Third place: Chicago by Thomas Whitty
High School Jazz
- First place: Dichotomy by Samuel Luetkemeyer
- Second place: Rad World by Adam Routt
- Third place: Dreary at 5 in the Morning by Hyunjae Justin Hahm
Middle School Notated
- First place: Little Creek by Claire Li
- Second place: Through the Eye of the Hurricane by Eli Minasian
- Second place: Wading in Water by Yueheng Wang
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Tough Times by Benjamin Stoker
- Second place: A Dark Winter by Kate Bresler
- Third place: Downfall by Ethan King
High School Pop
- First place: Lighthouse by Katherine Vlamis
- Second place: Just Like the Rain by Jordin MacKenzie
- Third place: Waves of Distortion by Cooper Carr
Middle School Pop
- First place: Wonder What It's Like by Stone Gill
- Second place: I'm Stuck on the Verge of Glory by Holly Gravers, Grace Ensor
- Third place: Back to You by Lucy Gray Hamilton
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: People Not Seeing Me by Aiden Assel
- Second place: Undefeated by Ben Zerega, Harrison Ringkor, Brayden Fisk
- Third place: The Mountain by Annabel Merideth
High School Notated
- First place: Napoleonic Dances in F Minor by Jack Snelling
- Second place: Nefarious by Olivia Bennett
- Third place: Silence by Brandon Thibodeau
High School Jazz
- First place: Sibling Rivalry by Samuel Luetkemeyer
- Second place: The Interview by Robyne Sieh
- Third place: The Overcomer by William E. Cremer III
Middle School Notated
- First place: Tarantella by Christopher Ramsey
- Second place: The Dreamer by Brandon Kim
- Third place: Playing With Time by Charlotte Bauer
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Dancing Waves by Yueheng Wang
- Second place: Up in the Sky by Olivia Bresler
- Third place: In the King's Court by Ian Moore
High School Pop
- First place: The Cold Will Come by Christian Geil
- Second place: We Won't Fall by Katherine Vlamis
- Third place: Devour by Victoria Raulston
Middle School Pop
- First place: comingbacktoyou by Jordin MacKenzie
- Second place: Brave by Stone Gill
- Third place: About to Grow by Posey Bischoff
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: This Old House by Lucy Gray Hamilton
- Second place: Legend in Me by Finley John Watkins
- Third place: Winter Light by Landon Hall, Brody Oesch
High School Notated
- First place: Kaleidoscope by Brandon Thibodeau
- Second place: The Hare by Olivia Bennett
- Third place: Ki Bhavi Ragini by Cheyenne Stumpf
High School Jazz
- First place: Lovesick by Jack Snelling
- Second place: Playin' Hooky by Samuel Luetkemeyer
Middle School Notated
- First place: The Quarrel by Brandon Kim
- Second place: Brass Trio in C Minor by Ammar Farra
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Echoing in the Sky by Yueheng Wang
- Second place: Winter Snow by Natalie Johnson
- Third place: Grab a Mic by Stone Gill
High School Pop
- First place: I See You by Cooper Carr
- Second place: No More by Julia Riew
- Third place: Storm by Menea Kefalov
Middle School Pop
- First place: The Path of Life by Grace Ensor, Holly Travers, Posey Bischoff, Katie Downey
- Second place: Deal with the Devil by Elsa Kelly-Marcum
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Full Blown Storm by Brooke Noelle Eck
- Second place: Pokémon by Jackson Smith
- Third place: Game of Life by Landon Irvin
High School Notated
- First place: Julia Riew
- Second place: Mary Park
- Third place: Amanda Bradshaw
High School Jazz
- First place: Nick Larimore
- Second place: Jack Snelling
- Third place: Samuel Luetkemeyer
Middle School Notated
- First place: Olivia Bennett
- Second place: HyunJoon Yoo
- Third place: Brandon Kim
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Judah Robbins Bernal
- Second place: Yueheng Wang
- Third place: Alexis Rysanek
High School Pop
- First place: Menea Kefalov
- Second place: Audrey McCulley
- Third place: Sara Meadows
Middle School Pop
- First place: Thomas Trollope
- Second place: Ella Leible
- Third place: Finnegan Stewart
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Miles Cole, Drew Hauser
- Second place: Kadyn Bilberry
- Third place: Jenna Yaw
High School Notated
- First place: Autumn's Orchestra by Hans Heruth
- Second place: Laughing Lake by Julia Riew
- Third place: The Reminiscence by Mary Park
Middle School Notated
- First place: Roundabout by Brandon Thibodeau
- Second place: A New Year by Audrey McCulley
- Third place: Into the Storm by HyunJun (John) Yoo
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: The Everlasting Battle by Lochlan Stewart
- Second place: Broken Video Game by Judah Robbins Bernal
- Third place: Knights of the Round Table by Brandon Kim
High School Pop
- First place: Little Bit of Your Time by Anthony Delia
- Second place: Just Wait for Me by Sarah Meadows
- Third place: Hurricane by Hera Scher-Zagier
Middle School Pop
- First place: Rate Your Pain by Ande Celeste Siegel
- Second place: Closing Hours by Samuel Luetkemeyer
- Third place: Moving On by Menea Kefalov
Elementary Song
- First place: Champion by Nathan Fee-Wiley, Michael Marshall
- Second place: Springtime by Sadie Tanner
- Third place: I Wanna Be Loved by Taylor Anderson, Braden Wicker
High School Notated
- First place: Mortuis Loqui by Dustin Dunn
- Second place: Perception by Hans Heruth
- Third place: i stand in the moon and call it good by Joseph Misterovich
High School Jazz
- First place: 96 by Brian Lollman
- Second place: Smokey Lounge by Adam Cohen
Middle School Notated
- First place: A Collaborative Conversation by Brandon Thibodeau
- Second place: Dreamcatcher by Soyoung (Mary) Park
- Third place: Rhythm Festival by HyunJun (John) Yoo
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Frolic by Weston Krenn
- Second place: Winter's Promise by Emily Chevalier
- Third place: The Four-Leaf Clover by Amelia Markwell
High School Pop
- First place: Both Sides by Tanner Qualls
- Second place: Break Throughs by Kael Upschulte
- Third place: Sunshine Rain by Silas Luetkemeyer
Middle School Pop
- First place: The Jacks of Swing by Samuel Luetkemeyer
- Second place: When You're Awake by Emma Reinagel
- Third place: You're Alone by Menea Kefalov, Ande Siegel
Elementary Song
- First place: Trees by Sadie Tanner
- Second place: Imagination by Grace Filer
- Third place: Magic by Elizabeth Hess
High School Notated
- First place: The Sonata That Rained by Edward Crouse
- Second place: Into the Storm by Hans Heruth
- Third place: you weren't there for the beginning by Joseph Misterovich
High School Jazz
- First place: Back to the Board by Gus Knobbe
Middle School Notated
- First place: Suite for Horn and Bassoon in F Major by Amanda Bradshaw
- Second place: Ambiguous by Brandon Thibodeau
- Third place: March for Unaccompanied Violin by Nicole Shah
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: The Unknown World by HyunJun (John) Yoo
- Second place: My Heart's Song by Emily Chevalier
- Third place: Seascape Rhapsody by Zoe Goddard
High School Pop
- First place: Deliver Me by Justin Cline
- Second place: 3 A.M. (So Let Me Be) by Erin Hoerchler
- Third place: Tides by Tanner Qualls
Middle School Pop
- First place: This Generation by Menea Kefalov, Ande Siegel
- Second place: Dressing for Dinner by Samuel Luetkemeyer
- Third place: Soar and Fly by Emma Reinagel
Elementary Song
- First place: Snow by Sadie Tanner
- Second place: Susanna's Story by Elizabeth Hess
- Third place: It's a Snow Day by Savannah Slater, McKenzie Blakey
High School Notated
- First place: Madness by Gus Knobbe
- Second place: Celtic Blessing by Carter Datz
- Third place: Salva me by Bryan Gibson
High School Jazz
- First place: Waltz for Bill by Benedetto Colagiovanni
- Second place: Morning Joy by Brandon Moore
- Third place: Nessy by Ben Bergstrom
Middle School Notated
- First place: Winter's Waltz by Savannah Kitchen
- Second place: Traveling Around the World by Alice Ann Yu
- Third place: Dramatization by Edward Tsang
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Earthquake's Destruction by HyunJun Yoo
- Second place: Windswept Dreams by Tristan Handy
- Third place: Count Olaf by Olivia Bennett
High School Pop
- First place: Turn Your Shoulder by Ross Menefee
- Second place: Secrets and Lies by Tanner Qualls
- Third place: This Crime by Jaron Geil
Middle School Pop
- First place: Words by Anthony Delia
- Second place: Nothing Boy by Lileana Ibur
- Third place: Another New Day Begins by Sarah Meadows
Elementary Song
- First place: War by Menea Kefalov, Ande Siegel
- Second place: The Road Home Song by Elizabeth Y. Murray
- Third place: Only Holy One by Grace Filer
High School Notated
- First place: Red Soul by Shaun Gladney
- Second place: A Journey Through the Woods by Cullam Olsen
- Third place: American Rhapsody by Dustin Dunn
Middle School Notated
- First place: Central Park Stroll by Savannah Kitchen
- Second place: A Summer Night by Michael Buckner
- Third place: Over the water by Lillian Wayne
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Letter from the Wolves by Esther Whang
- Second place: Song of D Minor by HyunJun (John) Yoo
- Third place: It's My Time to Shine by Grace Filer
High School Pop
- First place: Drown by Tanner Qualls
- Second place: Stick People by Jaron Christopher Geil
- Third place: By My Side by Bella Kalei Ibur
Middle School Pop
- First place: Insanity by Megan L. Villanueva
- Second place: Summer Love by Lexie Althaus
- Third place: Spinning by Lileana Ibur
Elementary Song
- First place: A Spoonful of Heart by Menea Kefalov, Ande Siegel
- Second place: The Popcorn Pop by Jack Stebbins
High School Jazz
- First place: And the Prince Can Swing by Benedetto Colagiovanni
- Second place: Trial by Fire by Josh Blythe
- Third place: Day Old Swing by Joseph Misterovich
High School Sacred
- First place: The Real Things by Taylor Qualls
- Second place: Lead Me to the Cross (Why Do I Question) by Desiree G. Donaldson
- Third place: He Turns My Weeping Into Dancing by Ethan Edwards
High School Folk
- First place: Let It Fall by Kori Caswell
- Second place: Legende d'Amour: A Tragedy in Medieval France by Daphne Yu
High School Other
- First place: Freaky Lick by Kyle Dunn
- Second place: Serene by Nick Simon
- Third place: The Lightning Strike by Alexandra Young
High School Notated
- First place: Clarinet Qu by Alexander Blank
- Second place: String Quintet by Grant Bradshaw
- Third place: Winter Sunset by Victoria Yu
Middle School Notated
- First place: The Escape by Night by Nicholas Funke
- Second place: A Distant Folk Land by Mingu Kim
- Third place: Childhood Memories by Alice Ann Yu
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: The Cat and Mouse by HyunJun Yoo
- Second place: JJ Jam by Jonathan Padgett, Jack Roth
- Third place: When the Rain Comes Down by Nichole Bryan
High School Pop
- First place: Bullet by Mitchell Kilpatrick
- Second place: Light of Day by Taylor Qualls
- Third place: Unsure by Eric Geil
- Honorable mention: Today is the Day by Jaron Geil
Middle School Pop
- First place: Dry by Tanner Qualls
- Second place: Lies by Isaac Baker with Austin Culbertson, Ross Menefee, Nick Roberts
- Third place: When Life Doesn't Go Your Way by Jacob Filer
Elementary Song
- First place: April Fun by Samantha Hite
- Second place: Roses in Winter by Marley Wurzer, Alicia Flavin
- Third place: Hope is Such a Beautiful Thing by Katherine Hostetler, Savannah Kitchen, Adriannah Silvey
High School Sacred
- First place: Star Breather by Anna Martin
- Second place: Who You Are by Holly Morris
- Third place: Dance for the King by Katie Benjamin
High School Other
- First place: Journey of the Leaves by Christopher John Poetz
- Second place: Highlands by Kenneth Baker
High School Notated
- First place: String Quartet by Grant Bradshaw
- Second place: Cuss and Percuss by Alexander Blank
- Third place: American Sojourn by Kevin Hartnett
Middle School Notated
- First place: Journey Through the Woods by Daphne Yu
- Second place: Highland Rising by Nicolas Funke
- Third place: Concio 'n Para el Dios by Julia Martin
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: God's Gift to Us by Jacob Filer
- Second place: The Garden Full of Flowers by Alice Ann Yu
- Third place: Colornating the Trees by Ilinca Popescu
High School Pop
- First place: Something Has Changed by Taylor Qualls
- Second place: Long Way Home by Eric William Geil
- Third place: Surround Me by Darion (Myles) Rodney
Middle School Pop
- First place: Trapped by Isaac Baker with Austin Culbertson, Ross Menefee, Nick Roberts
- Second place: Seeing for the First Time by Tanner Qualls
- Third place: Our Journey by Megan L. Villanueva
Elementary Song
- First place: All Summer by Hannah McKean
- Second place: Heavenly Peace by Samantha Keeler
- Third place: Story of My Life by Stephanie Fisher, McKenzie Gourley, Taylor Horne, Chloe Schenewerk
High School Sacred
- First place: God's Love by Elizabeth Michelle Marin
High School Instrumental
- First place: Elizabeth Salley
- Second place: Carly McClain
- Second place: Grant Bradshaw
- Third place: Victoria Yu
- Third place: Sara Wahoff
Middle School Instrumental
- First place: Maya Cutkosky
- Second place: Shaun Gladney
- Third place: Mingu Kim
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Cooper Epstein
- Second place: Sage Freter
- Third place: Nicholas Orazio
High School Pop
- First place: Eric Geil
- Second place: Chris Rucker
Middle School Pop
- First place: Isaac Baker with Austin Culbertson, Ross Menefee, Nick Roberts
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Carolyn Clamm
- Second place: Debbie Stinson's 5th Grade Class
- Third place: Farley Nichole Burke, Josiah John Prenger
High School Notated
- First place: Kevin Hartnett
- Second place: Elizabeth Salley
- Third place: Deven Halcomb
- Third place: Victoria Yu
Middle School Notated
- First place: Grant Bradshaw
- Second place: Shaun Gladney
- Third place: Maya Cutkosky
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Christopher Leonard
- Second place: Alice Ann Yu
- Third place: Mingu Kim
High School Pop
- First place: Miranda Gebelin
- Second place: David Jones
Middle School Pop
- First place: Daphne Yu
- Second place: Jesse Hadley
- Third place: Megan Davis
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Chelsea Prince, Regine McCracken
- Second place: Aidan McCarter
- Third place: Isaac Baker, Elijah Kellenberger, Ross Menefee
High School Sacred
- First place: Jamie Marie Harsbarger
- Second place: Shaylin Montgomery
High School Other
- First place: Austin Hernandez
- Second place: Spencer Meadows
High School Notated
- First place: Kristen Walker
- Second place: Grace Lowe
- Third place: Alaina Jacobson
- Third place: Sean Holland
Middle School Notated
- Third place: Victoria Yu
Elementary Instrumental
- First place: Daphne Yu
- Second place: Christopher Leonard
- Third place: Alice Ann Yu
Middle School Pop
- Second place: Jamie Spencer
Elementary Song with Words
- First place: Dal'esia Clark, Brandi Elder, Jacob Freyermuth, Josh Tharp
- Second place: Alison Gillespie
High School Sacred
- First place: Jordan Dollins
2026 COMP Application Form
Applications for the 2026 COMP festival will open on Monday, September 22, 2025.
Deadline extended! Applications close on January 12, 2026.
Please also submit a verification form (See below).
2026 COMP Verification form