The American Prize

The American Prize is a set of annual nonprofit national competitions in the performing arts which recognizes and rewards commercial and noncommercial recorded performances of classical music in the United States based on submitted applications. There is no live competition.[1] The award is bestowed at professional, college/university, community and high school levels in composition, piano, voice, chamber music, conducting, ensemble performance and in a number of other areas.[2][3] The jury consists of well known performing artists in each area, with the conductor and composer David Katz serving as chief judge.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Artists and ensembles self-nominate through an application process or are nominated by a teacher, parent, board member or colleague.[10] Evaluation is a key component of the competition; applicants who reach finalist status or higher receive a written evaluation from a member of the judging panel. Among judges are composer Judith Lang Zaimont, pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Metropolitan Opera soprano Sharon Sweet. Winners of each category receive a cash award.

Top prize winners

Winners of the first prize award by year in all professional categories.

Composition

Orchestra Choral Chamber Music Band Theater
2011 Jesse Ayers Ted Vives not awarded not awarded not awarded
2012 Michael Gatonska[11] Brian Holmes not awarded not awarded not awarded
2013 Alessandra Salvati Jonathan Santore Michael Deak Aleksander Sternfeld-Dunn not awarded
2014 Gregg Wramage Dominick DiOrio Piotr Szewczyk Laurence Bitensky Todd Goodman
2015 Angelique Poteat Travis Alford David Garner (tie)

Judith Lang Zaimont (tie)

David Avshalomov Yiguo Yan

Piano

Solo Concerto
2011 Lin-Yu Wang not awarded
2012 Nathanael May Sarah S. Chan
2013 Petronel Malan Anthony Michael Cornet
2014 Nassib Nassar Kasandra Keeling
2015 Michael Angelucci Bill John Newbrough

Voice

Opera (women) Opera (men) Art Song / Oratorio (women) Art Song / Oratorio (men)
2011 Laura Strickling Jonathan Beyer Christine Steyer Blake Friedman
2012 Suzanne Vinnik Christian Ketter Sharin Apostolou Matthew Garrett
2013 Suzanne Vinnik Christian Ketter Emily Marvosh Darren Chase
2014 Megan Marino Mitchell Hutchings Sarah Davis Leo Rado
2015 Aundi Marie Moore Peter Lightfoot Tania Coambs Jorell Williams

Chamber music

2014 Atlanta Chamber Players
2015 The New Consort

Orchestral

Orchestral performance Conducting
2010 Lancaster Festival Orchestra Gary Sheldon, Lancaster Festival Orchestra
2011 Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Christopher Zimmerman, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
2012 National Philharmonic Dirk Meyer, Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
2013 not awarded not awarded
2014 Park Avenue Chamber Symphony not awarded
2015 Western Piedmont Symphony Olivier Ochanine, Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

Choral

Choral performance (professional) Choral performance (community) Choral performance (collegiate)
2010 Roomful of Teeth Choral Arts Washington & Jefferson College Camerata Singers
2011 Washington Bach Consort Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union Mansfield University Concert Choir
2012 Ensemble Companio East Carolina University Chamber Singers
2013 Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble Iowa State Singers
2014 Choral Arts Initiative The University of North Dakota Concert Choir
2015 Houston Chamber Choir Peninsula Women's Chorus USC Thornton Chamber Singers

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