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2026 Butler Texas Young Masters

Josephine Chow

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Josephine Chow (Music-Piano) is a junior at Westwood High School in Austin. She currently studies with Alexander Malikov and Andrei Tcymbalistenko. Josephine was the Texas winner of the 2023-2024 Music...

Isabella Cervera

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Isabella Cervera (Musical Theatre) is an eleventh grader at the North East School of the Arts in San Antonio, where she is majoring in both dance and musical theatre?er. She...

Jenny Chu

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Jenny Chu (Literary Arts-Poetry) is a junior at the Hockaday School in Dallas. A two-time YoungArts winner in Writing/Poetry, she is also a three-time Scholastic Art & Writing Awards national gold...

Caroline McGowan

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Caroline McGowan (Dance) is in the tenth grade at Highland Park High School in Dallas. She currently studies dance at Next Step Dance Performing Arts. Caroline has been awarded numerous awards...

Joseph Kirillov

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Joseph Kirillov (Dance) is a sophomore at Penn Foster Online High School. Based in Prosper, he currently trains at Elite Classical Coaching with Catherine Lewellen. Joseph has won multiple first-place...

Matthew Conway

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Matthew Conway (Dance) is a freshman at Richland High School in Prosper. He trains at Next Step Dance Performing Arts in Frisco and has won multiple regional and national awards...

Emmalynne Brown

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Emmalynne Brown (Dance-Ballet) is a 16-year-old sophomore who trains at Fort Bend Academy of Dance. She is also a principal dancer with BalletForte, a pre-professional company. Emmalynne has placed in...

Sydney Bridgewater

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Sydney Bridgewater (Dance) is in the ninth grade at Frisco High School in Frisco. She started ballet at age five, and expanded into contemporary, jazz, lyrical, ballroom, musical theater, hip hop,...

Alessandro Dieguez

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Alessandro Dieguez (Musical Theatre) is a tenth grade student at Amarillo High School in Amarillo. He has studied singing, acting, and dance with Amarillo Little Theatre (ALT) since 2019, and...