Princeton Day School Students Named 2025 YoungArts Award Winners

PRINCETON, NJ — Four students from Princeton Day School have been named 2025 YoungArts Award winners.

Joshua Cha (classical music/viola), Sam Konin (jazz/double bass), Casey Kuma (voice/popular), and Amy Lin (poetry) are among more than 800 students from across the country selected for the award.

YoungArts award winners are selected through a highly competitive application, which is reviewed by panels of esteemed, discipline-specific artists in a rigorous adjudication process.

The 2025 YoungArts award winners join a distinguished community of artists who are offered creative and professional development support throughout their careers.

“We’re thrilled to award our largest-ever cohort of artists, selected from a record-breaking number of applications this year,” YoungArts President & CEO Clive Chang said.

“We hope this recognition provides these young people with the encouragement to keep pursuing their artistry, and the assurance that YoungArts will be there as a source of support and community for the rest of their lives.”

All YoungArts award winners have demonstrated exceptional technique, a strong sense of artistry, and an extraordinary commitment to developing their craft.

This year, winners were selected from nearly 11,000 applications across 10 artistic disciplines – classical music, dance, design, film, jazz, photography, theater, visual arts, voice and writing.

Each award winner will receive a monetary award of $250.

For the duration of their careers, YoungArts award winners are eligible for exclusive creative and professional development support, microgrants and financial awards, and presentation opportunities in collaboration with major venues and cultural partners nationwide; and become part of an intergenerational network of more than 22,000 past award winners.

The winners also have the opportunity to participate in YoungArts Labs, all-expenses-paid learning intensives with field defining artists in Los Angeles, New York and Nashville.

YoungArts award winners join a distinguished group of accomplished artists including Daniel Arsham, Jon Batiste, Terence Blanchard, Camille A. Brown, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Amanda Gorman, Denyce Graves, Judith Hill, Jennifer Koh, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Andrew Rannells, Desmond Richardson, Jean Shin, Hunter Schafer and Shaina Taub.

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