The Terra String Quartet (TSQ) has added the 2025 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition to its long list of triumphs, winning a $15,000 cash award, recitals at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Carnegie Hall, and a commissioned work and … » Read

The name of Sir Georg Solti has for years been associated with annual grants to young American conductors sponsored by The Solti Foundation . In recent years his name was also connected with an international competition held in Frankfurt under … » Read

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) has announced the recipients of the APAP Honors Awards, to be presented at the organization’s annual conference in New York on Jan. 12, 2026. “Their leadership and contributions … » Read

Chamber Music America (CMA) has announced its annual awards, to be presented at its next national conference, August 20–23, 2026, in Chicago. Each carries a cash prize of $1,000. At the top of the list is the Takács Quartet, which … » Read

Canadian soprano Gabrielle Turgeon, 24, has won the grand prize of the 2025 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Competition. The award, of CAD 20,000, is named in memory of Barbara Bronfman, longtime patron of the OSM.  Turgeon, a … » Read

The Montreal-based Azrieli Music, Arts and Culture Center (AMACC) has named four composers—Hana Ajiashvili, Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Nicholas Denton Protsack, and Adrian Mocanu—as the 2026 Azrieli Music Prize (AMP) Laureates. Awarded … » Read

This month The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) and its Vice President Sir Bryn Terfel will launch the inaugural edition of its eponymous Song Prize as part of its 75 th anniversary celebration. The biennial Sir Bryn Terfel Song … » Read

Hong Kong violinist Hiu Sing Fan, a recent semi-finalist in the 2025 Paganini Violin Competition, is the recipient of the fourth annual Gurrena Fellowship at Meadowmount School of Music. Located in the Adirondack Mountains, the school is a … » Read

Canadian pianist Élisabeth Pion was crowned the Gold Laureate of this year’s Honens Competition. The triennial event’s top prize is $100,000 (CAD) plus a three-year artist development program, which Honens values at $500,000 … » Read

While the Big News this week has been the quintennial International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, won by American pianist Eric Lu , there have been other and ample challenging contests over the last two months. They may have a lower profile than … » Read