Kyrenia Opera Vocal Competition Winners
2025
First Place
Victoria Pitsioli
Second Place
Milena Bucich
Encouragement Award Recipients
Daphne Antoniadou
Sofia Charalambous
Ciarae Economopoulos
FrancisRenos Efstathiou
Eleni Amelie Payiatsou Fournaraki
Andriana Ioannou
Sofia Letayf
Antrea Agapi Markou
Danae Sampson
Evangelia Vreto
2024
First Place
Kresley Figueroa, Soprano
Second Place
Michelle Geffner, Soprano
Third Place (tie)
Rachel Kobernick, Soprano
Joseph Parrish, Bass-Baritone
Honorary Mentions
Ashlyn Brown, Mezzo-Soprano
Robert Feng, Bass
Tristan Tournaud, Tenor
Zhenpeng Zhang, Baritone
2022-2023
Brooke Romaine, Soprano (First prize-Young Artist Division); Ori Marcu, mezzo-soprano (First prize-Student Division); Angelique Savvas, soprano (Cyprus Award).
Honorary Mentions:
Brandon Bell, Baritone; Kseniia Sidorova; Veronica Siebert, Mezzo Soprano; Sarah Raiss, Soprano; Michaela Papadopoulou, Soprano.
2020-2021
Jose Simerilla Romero, Tenor (First prize-Young Artist Division); Lindsey Reynolds, soprano (First prize-Student Division); Constantina Nicolaou, soprano (Cyprus Award).
Honorary mentions:
Danielle Beckvermit, Elli Koutsouli, Alexandra Razskazoff (sopranos); Eric Ferring, Andrew Morstein, (tenors); Armando Contreras, Blake Denson (baritones)
2020
Career grants were awarded to: Alexander Boyd, baritone, Christiana Charalambous, soprano, David Holkeboer, pianist, Thomas Leighton, tenor, Jesse Malgieri, baritone, Stavros Mantis, baritone, Zoe Nicolaidou, soprano.
2018-2019
Elena Patsalidou, soprano (First prize); Rafaela Charalambous, mezzo soprano (Second prize); Lucy Elston, soprano (Honorary mention)
2017-2018
Theodora Raftis, soprano (First prize) and Christiana Charalambous, soprano (Encouragement award)
2016-2017
Eleni Aloneftou, mezzo soprano
2015-2016
Christiana Aloneftis, soprano
2014-2015
Zoe Nicolaidou, soprano (First prize); Mariza Anastasiadou, soprano (Encouragement award)