Honorees Awards Photo Gallery

Former Lincoln Center Vice President, Public Relations, Joe McKaughan (left) and Sedgwick Clark

Marin Alsop, Conductor of the Year, with composer John Corigliano

Barbara Peterson, BMI, and Christopher Rouse, Composer of the Year

Stephanie Blythe and David Foster, president of Opus3 Artists

Journalists John Rockwell (left) and Patrick J. Smith

Charles Wadsworth, former music director of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and photographer Christian Steiner

Jane Moss, Lincoln Center's Vice President, Programming, and Marin Alsop, Conductor of the Year

Pianist Jerome Rose and Marin Alsop

Photographer Steve J. Sherman and his wife, Dorothy Lawson, cellist of Ethel

Charles Hamlen and Edna Landau, together again after all these years

Smile! Stephanie Blythe and sister Melody Blythe

That's more like it!

(left to right) Byron Gustafson of Opus3 Artists, Pamela Curzon, and Julie Kedersha

Yo-Yo Ma and Marin Alsop

Long-time collaborators Christopher Rouse, Yo-Yo Ma, and Marin Alsop

Christopher Rouse (left) and Yo-Yo Ma - Ma gave the first performance of Rouse's Cello Concerto, and the subsequent recording won a pair of Grammys

(left to right) Marin Alsop, Christopher Rouse, Yo-Yo Ma, and Stephanie Blythe

(left to right) Yo-Yo Ma, composer John Corigliano, Marin Alsop

(left to right) Nicky Zann, Mary Lou Falcone, and Steve J. Sherman

Christopher Rouse accepts his Composer of the Year award

Marin Alsop accepts her Conductor of the Year award

Stephanie Blythe receives her Vocalist of the Year award from Sedgwick Clark

Stephanie accepts her Vocalist of the Year award

Simin Ganatra, first violinist of the Pacifica Quartet, Ensemble of the Year, delivers the quip of the evening: "Being from Illinois, our first instinct was to sell this award to the highest bidder."

Yo-Yo Ma accepting his Musician of the Year award

Yo-Yo Ma and Mary Pat Buerkle, his manager at Opus3 Artists

Yo-Yo Ma and Mary Lou Falcone

Musical America's 2009 honorees (left to right): Brandon Vamos, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Masumi Per Rostad, Simin Ganatra (Pacifica String Quartet), Ensemble of the Year; mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, Vocalist of the Year; Marin Alsop, Conductor of the Year; Christopher Rouse, Composer of the Year, Sedgwick Clark, editor of Musical America Directory, bearing the new edition in lieu of Musician of the Year Yo-Yo Ma

Editor Sedgwick Clark gives the honorees their first glance at their tributes

Pacifica Quartet members with President Karen Zorn and Conservatory Dean Wayman Chin of the Longy School of Music, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the Quartet is in residence (left to right, Simin Ganatra, Sibi Bernhardsson, Dean Chin, President Zorn, Masumi Per Rostad, and Brandon Vamos

Çedille Records President James Ginsburg (center), flanked by the Pacifica Quartet, which has made several recordings for the label