The Symphonina Foundation

The 2025 Best Symphonina of the Year Composer Competition

We just completed our 4^th composer contest for Best Symphonina of the Year and our winner is Christopher Siu (Canada) with his first Symphonina! Jordan Jinosko (USA) earned runner-up with her third Symphonina. Christopher will receive the $2000 first-place prize while Jordan will receive the $1000 runner-up award. Alexander Unseth placed third, and Chris Prather, Marc Caroul, and Brian Ballinger earned honors as Finalist with Distinction. Daniel Vega, Lindsey Wiehl, Callen Clarke, and Dimitri Kovachev were also Finalists. 

We thank all of the composers who entered and we’re now full speed ahead on the production for our 2026 Symphonina album, including Christopher, Jordan, and others. We also want to thank all of the judges who volunteered their time to help assess all of the compositions: Allison Charney, Bernadett Nyari, Chetan Tierra, Christopher Reed, David Leiman, Anna Williams, Diana Tash, Ian Gindes, James Dumas, Joanne Lazzaro, Mary Dawood Catlin, Rasa Vitkauskaite, Shaun Drew, Sophia Agranovich, Steve Locks, Tess Remy-Schumacher, Vivian Fang Liu, Wilhelm von Dungen, David Arkenstone, Zain Effendi, Hamed Erfani, and of course, Daniel Fisher and Gary Gray. We couldn’t do it without you!