Announcing the 2013 George London Competition Awards
GEORGE LONDON AWARDS ($10,000 each):
Dominic Armstrong, Tenor – George London Award (In memory of Lloyd Rigler)
Noah Baetge, Tenor – George London-Kirsten Flagstad Award (For a singer preparing for a Wagnerian career)
Jamez McCorkle, Baritone – George London Award
Felicia Moore, Soprano – George London Award
Jessica Muirhead, Soprano – George London Award (For a Canadian singer)
Nicholas Pallesen, Baritone – George London Award (Sponsored by The Lissner Charitable Fund)
Marcy Stonikas, Soprano – George London-Leonie Rysanek Award
GEORGE LONDON FOUNDATION ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS ($1,000 each):
Adam Bonanni, Tenor (Robert Jacobson Memorial Award)
John Brancy, Baritone (In memory of Theodore Uppman)
Rihab Chaieb, Mezzo-soprano (In memory of George Lowin)
Marina Costa-Jackson, Soprano (In memory of Norma Newton)
Shirin Eskandani, Mezzo-soprano (For a Canadian singer)
Steven LaBrie, Baritone (In memory of Herbert J. Frank)
Jonathan Michie, Baritone
HONORABLE MENTIONS ($500 each):
Aubrey Allicock, Baritone
Christian Bowers, Baritone
Deanna Breiwick, Soprano
Andrew Craig Brown, Bass-baritone
Miriam Khalil, Soprano
Kathryn Lewek, Soprano
Sydney Mancasola, Soprano
Cameron McPhail, Baritone
Daniel Shirley, Tenor
Ben Wager, Bass
The distinguished members of the jury for the 2013 competition were Harolyn Blackwell, Nedda Casei, Bruce Donnell, Alfred Hubay, Nora London, George Shirley and Thurmond Smithgall. Linda Hall was the pianist.
The Finals took place on Friday, March 1 in The Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue.
COMPETITION OVERVIEW
The George London Foundation holds one of the oldest vocal competitions in the United States and Canada, offering among the most substantial awards to outstanding North American opera singers.
In 2013 there will be 6 awards of $10,000 each, one of which will go to a Canadian singer and another to a singer preparing for a Wagnerian career. There will be 6 Encouragement Grants of $1,000 each. Honorable mentions of $500 will go to all finalists who do not receive an award.
2013 Details:
Application Deadline: January 14,
Preliminaries: February 25 – 27th.
Finals: March 1, 4pm at The Morgan Library & Museum
Judges: Harolyn Blackwell, Bruce Donnell, Alfred Hubay, Nora London, Susanne Mentzer, George Shirley and Thurmond Smithgall
Pianist: Linda Hall
Vienna Prize
A further career development opportunity is given throughout the Vienna Prize, given to one of the award winners: A two-week residency in Austria where the prize-winner receives an audition with the Vienna Opera and intensive musical coaching in German repertoire and language. Vienna Prize winners.
COMPETITION APPLICATION
Click here to fill out the application for this year’s competition.
Click here to download the application for this year’s competition.
GEORGE LONDON AWARD WINNERS 1971-2012
See details on the Winners of the 41st Annual George London Foundation Awards Competition here
Tiffany Renée Abban
Donnie Ray Albert
John Aler
Jeannine Altmeyer
Kelly Anderson
Paul Appleby
David Arnold
Meredith Arwady
James Atherton
Audrey Babcock
Dennis Bailey
Earline Ballard
Carmen Balthrop
Connie Jean Barnett
Richard Barrett
Kathleen Battle
Jay Baylon
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Lynn Beckstrom
Anton Belov
Victor Benedetti
Carolyn Betty
Jonathan Beyer
Abra Bigham
Corey Bix
Jennifer Black
Joy Blackett
Rockwell Blake
Jeff Blumenkrantz
Phillip Booth
Kathryn Bouleyn
Gwendolyn Bradley
John Brandstetter
Russell Braun
Christine Brewer
Measha Brueuggergosman
Katherine Buffaloe
Amy Burton
Angelique Burzynski
Barry Busse
Kate Butler
Samuel Byrd
Patrick Carfizzi
John del Carlo
Lise Carlson
Margarita Castro-Alberty
Charles Castronovo
Claudia Catania
Brandon Cedel
Kirstin Chavez
Jennifer Check
Stephanie Chigas
Robert Christesen
Marianna Christos
Melissa Citro
Cynthia Clarey
Richard Clark
Sarah Coburn
Vinson Cole
Evangeline Colon
Barbara Conrad
Lawrence Cooper
Stephen Costello
Carol Courtman
Richard Cowan
Richard Cox
Modesto Crisci
Leila Cuberli
David Cumberland
Glenn Cunningham
Barbara Daniels
Ellie Dehn
Alexandra Deshorties
Altelouise DeVaughn
Michelle DeYoung
Stephen Dickson
Joyce DiDonato
Dorceal Dickens
James Dietsch
Julianna Di Gicaomo
Mark Doss
Suzanne Douglas
Melvin Earl-Brown
Louise Edelken
Ryan Edwards
Joyce El-Khoury
Brent Ellis
Charlotte Ellsaesser
Kaaren Erickson
Faith Esham
Arthur Espiritu
Damon Evans
Maria Ewing
Ruth Falcon
Craig Fields
Renée Fleming
Beverly Flower
Mervin Foard
Amanda Forsythe
Karen Foster
Carroll Freeman
Colenton Freeman
Mario Fusco
Davis Gaines
Robert Galbraith
Kathryn Gamberoni
Edna Garabedian
Jake Gardner
Jèsus Garcia
Jon Garrison
Bradley Garvin
Joyce Gerber
Eugenia Giltman
Christine Goerke
Ruth Golden
George Gray
Kevin Gray
Theodore Green
Sheri Greenawald
Cris Groenendaal
Jill Grove
Lori Guilbeau
Judith Haddon
Jerry Hadley
Alexander Hajek
Elizabeth Haley
Janice Hall
Eric Halfvarson
Wendy Bryn Harmer
William Harness
Gordon Hawkins
D. Michael Heath
Joshua Hecht
Alan Held
Barbara Hendricks
Suzanne Hendrix
Katherine Henjum
Frank Hernandez
Edward Herrnkind
Cheryl Hickman
James Hoback
David Holloway
Barbara Honn
Walter Hook
Edward Jay Huls
Karen Hunt
Weston Hurt
Bryan Hymel
Elizabeth Hynes
Yoshi Ito
Carolyn James
Nicolai Janitzky
Sarah Johannsen
Gwendolyn Jones
Isola Jones
Ruby Jones
Kim Alan Josephson
Linda Kelm
Kyle Ketelsen
David Kline
Elizabeth Knighton
Brian Kontes
Anita Krause
David Kuebler
Kathleen Kuhlman
Aline Kutan
Dominique Labelle
Anthony Laciura
Sunny Joy Langston
Margaret Lattimore
Derrick Lawrence
Douglas Lawrence
David DQ Lee
Lou Ann Lee
Peter Lightfoot
Kate Lindsey
Francis Little
Victoria Livengood
William Livingston
Sherman Lowe
Lester Lynch
Linda Mabbs
Walter MacNeil
Elliot Madore
Amanda Majeski
Catherine Malfitano
David Mallis
Sharon Markovitch
Frederic De Marseille
Marvis Martin
Eleni Matos
Shigemi Matsumoto
Andrea Matthews
Kevin Maynor
Jeff McCarthy
Ryan McKinny
Mary Ann McCormick
Mark McCrory
Monique McDonald
Michael Anthony McGee
James McGuire
Thomas McKinney
Ellen McLain
Penny McMichael
Angela Meade
Bejun Mehta
Heidi Melton
Susanne Mentzer
Myra Merritt
Janet Metz
Margaret Mezzacappa
Meagan Miller
Patricia Ann Miller
Erie Mills
Robert Milne
Leona Mitchell
Sandra Moon
Chloé Moore
Latonia Moore
James Morris
Paul Mow
Brian Mulligan
John Murray
Lorna Myers
Pamela Myers
Zachary Nelson
Norma Newton
Judith Nicosla
Yannick-Muriel Noah
John Norman
Daniel Okulitch
Lisette Oropesa
Mark Oswald
Louis Otey
Eric Owens
Marjorie Owens
Kay Paaschal
Roberta Palmer
Sean Panikkar
Tonio Di Paolo
Moises Santiago Parker
Edward Parks III
Roger Patterson
Nathaniel Peake
Ailyn Pérez
Eugene Perry
Evelyn Petros
Ellen Phillips
Susanna Phillips
Christina Pier
Susan Marie Pierson
Jeanne Piland
Scott Piper
Dimitri Pittas
Marie Plette
Deborah Polaski
Matthew Polenzani
Robert Pomaker
Robert Pomakov
Stephen Powell
Mayda Prado
Brenda Presley
Henry Price
Perry Price
Elizabeth Pruett
Ashley Putnam
Brenda Quilling
Ann McMahon Quintero
Florence Quivar
Sondra Radvanovsky
Fredda Rakusin
Juliana Rambaldi
Karen Rambo
Jessie Raven
Jan Redick
Georgine Resick
Jeffrey Reynolds
Leslie Richard
Linda Roark-Strummer
Christine Robbins
Julien Robbins
Noelle Rogers
Gianna Rolandi
Roxanne Rowedder
Lisa Saffer
John Sandor
Emalie Savoy
James Schwisow
John Seabury
Jordan Shanahan
Mary Shearer
Neil Shicoff
Alice Shields
Barbara Shuttleworth
Amando Sierra
Nadine Sierra
Joy Simpson
Marietta Simpson
Donovan Singletary
Heidi Skok
Karen Slack
Barrie Smith
Sheila Smith
Garrett Sorenson
Diana Soviero
Maria Spacagna
Richard Stilwell
Thomas Studebaker
Cesar Suarez
Stephanie Sundine
David Sundquist
Robert Swanson
Michael Sylvester
Dana Talley
Lynette Tapia
Maryanne Telese
Anita Tersian
Russell Thomas
Jo Ella Todd
Edmund Tolliver
Theresa Treadway
Phyllis Treigle
Jacques Trussel
Gregory Turay
James Tyeska
Noel Tyl
Dawn Upshaw
Debra Vanderlinde
James Valenti
Adriana Vanelli
Carol Vaness
Margaret Vazquez
Victoria Vergara
Elizabeth Volkman
Amber Wagner
Mervin Wallace
Carole Walters
Patricia Wells
Ruth Welting
Andrew Wentzel
John Frederic West
James Westman
Monica Whicher
Willard White
Carol Wilcox-Jones
La Verne Williams
Corinne Winters
Tamara Wilson
Louise Wohlafka
Sally Wolf
Elizabeth Wolfe
Erin Wood
Syble Young
Linda Zoghby
Press Release
WINNERS OF THE 42nd ANNUAL
GEORGE LONDON FOUNDATION AWARDS COMPETITION ARE ANNOUNCED here