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

American Eric Lu won the gold medal and €60,000 at the XIX International Chopin Competition in Warsaw on Monday. The 28-year-old artist bested ten other finalists from seven countries in an event that Ivan Hewett, classical music critic for … » Read

Composer/performer Meredith Monk  has received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during a ceremony at the Venice Biennale Musica. At age 82,  Musical America’s 2012 Composer of the Year  continues to be a sound … » Read

On Sept. 14 in Munich, the 74 th ARD International Music Competition awarded cash prizes in three categories—clarinet, trumpet, and piano. The largest international classical music competition in Germany, the ARD is organized annually by … » Read