MusicalAmerica - Awards 2015

	Peter Sellars wins Artist of the Year His missionary zeal for seeking deep, unsuspected meaning in art is as unrelenting as it is persuasive. You can’t fail to be astonished by his shock and awe stagings.
	Composer of the Year: John Luther Adams His is a modern lesson in artistic tenacity: He moved to Alaska to find the music of the wilderness and In the process, he earned himself the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
	Gianandrea Noseda is Conductor of the Year This fiery 50-year-old Milan-born conductor holds several orchestra posts and is in high demand for opera and orchestral engagements.
	Lisa Batiashvili: Instrumentalist of the Year Only 35, the Georgian violinist is a regular guest of leading orchestras across Europe and the U.S.
	Vocalist of the Year: Christine Goerke She is the great Wagner-Strauss soprano we’ve been waiting for, a multi-hued miracle of gale-force power and pinpoint control.