MusicalAmerica - Awards 2013

	Gustavo Dudamel: Musician of the Year He became a conducting sensation practically overnight and at age 31 is at the height of celebrity. Music director of the LA Philharmonic, where does he go from here?
	Composer of the Year goes to: David Lang One of the founders of the roaring, rock-influenced Bang on a Can school, he made a volte-face with his deeply felt setting of one of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales and won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
	Wu Man: Instrumentalist of the Year he is the very model of a modern soloist, but more importantly, and thanks to her, the pipa is no longer an exotic curiosity, let alone a complete mystery.
	Joyce DiDonato wins Vocalist of the Year Chipper, generous, versatile, and game for almost anything, she is the American opera singer par excellence, with an apple-cheeked Midwestern spin all her own.
	Educator of the Year: José Antonio Abreu With musical ambition, economic pragmatism, and political acumen, he created a unique social action project that has made a generation of citizens veritable pillars of society.