Aleksandra Vrebalov, 53, has won the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for Missa Supratext (“Mass Above Words”), for string quartet and girls’ chorus, with limited percussion. The 22-minute … » Read

Long Beach Opera, an ambitious and occasionally audacious opera company with an annual operating budget of about $2 million, has received $1.25M from the estate of late (d. 2021) board member Carol Richards, the largest single gift in the … » Read

Canada Council for the Arts has chosen cellist Bryan Cheng as recipient of its 2023 Virginia Parker Prize . The annual award, which goes to a distinguished classical instrumentalist or conductor under the age of 32, comes with a $25,000CAD prize. … » Read

The students and alumni of the New England Conservatory have recently been taking the competition world by storm. The NEC’s run of luck began in June a year ago, when Yunchan Lim took home the Gold Medal at the Van Cliburn International … » Read

American violinist Joshua Brown took home the Gold Medal at the 2023 Global Music Education League Competition, held in Beijing for ten days in early November. His win carries with it a $100,000 cash award as well as international management and … » Read

Chamber Music America’s biennial Cleveland Quartet Award, which goes to an up-and-coming ensemble with “significant promise,” will be presented at CMA’s January conference in New York to the Balourdet Quartet. The award … » Read

As part of its plan to “sunset”—distribute the entirety of its $55 million in resources—the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation has announced a number of significant “legacy” grants to Indianapolis-area cultural … » Read

On Nov. 5 in Cape Town, South Africa, the 30 th -anniversary edition of Operalia awarded prizes in a number of categories. The competition was founded three decades ago by Plácido Domingo to encourage the development of promising singers … » Read

Violinist Gidon Kremer has been awarded the 2023 Beethoven Prize for Human Rights , honoring his work on behalf of social justice. Scheduled to receive the award at a ceremony in Bonn on Nov. 19, the 76-year-old Latvian artist has consistently … » Read

In a ceremony at Boston’s Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain on Oct. 20, composer, educator, and author Dr. Bill Banfield received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award, aka the Call to Service Award, which was created in 2003 by … » Read