The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation sponsors competitions and provides awards for young

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in North America. Founded in 1925, it operates the prestigious Naumburg Competition.

Foundation and concerts

It was founded in 1925 by Walter Wehle Naumburg, a wealthy amateur

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and son of noted New York City music patron and philanthropist

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. Elkan Naumburg, owner of the eminent Wall Street bank E. Naumburg & Co., founded the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in 1905. The Concerts were originally performed at the Bandstand on the Concert Ground of New York's

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, and starting in 1923 were performed in the Naumburg Bandshell at the same location.

Naumburg competition

The Naumburg Competition is one of the oldest and most prestigious music competitions in the world. The website San Francisco Classical Voice writes that "the Naumburg Competition has one of the best track records of selecting young musicians who, in short order, build significant careers". The first competition was held in 1926. In an open audition format,

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were all eligible to compete. In 1928 it was expanded to include vocalists. The prize included cash awards and the opportunity to play concerts in New York's

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, which virtually insured reviews by New York's most influential music critics. In 1946, Aaron Copland and William Schuman joined the Naumburg Foundation board of directors, and shortly afterwards the Foundation began awarding

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with recording projects. In 1961, the format of the competition was changed into a professional competition with a single winner, for one particular discipline. In 1965, the competition was expanded to include chamber music ensembles. Since the early 1970s, the Naumburg Competition has generally rotated three different categories - piano, strings, and voice - on a triennial basis (although there have also been competitions for

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). Winners receive a cash prize and two recital appearances in Alice Tully Hall. Other opportunities include a recording project, a commission (to be premiered in one of the Alice Tully Hall recitals) and many performance opportunities throughout the United States. Previous winners of the International Naumburg Competition include

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (born January 10, 1961) is an Italian and American classical violinist and teacher. Early life and education Salerno-Sonnenberg was born in Rome, Italy. Her father left when she was three months old. She emigrated with ...

Elmar Oliveira Elmar Oliveira (born June 28, 1950) is an American violinist. Early life The son of Portuguese immigrants, Elmar Oliveira was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Oliveira was nine when he began studying the violin with his brother John. At age 16 h ...

, Dawn Upshaw,

Robert Mann Robert Nathaniel Mann (July 19, 1920 – January 1, 2018) was a violinist, composer, Conductor (music), conductor, and founding member of the Juilliard String Quartet, as well as a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music. Mann, the fir ...

Leonidas Kavakos Leonidas Kavakos ( el, Λεωνίδας Καβάκος; born 30 October 1967) is a Greek violinist and conductor. As a violinist, he has won prizes at several international violin competitions, including the Sibelius, Paganini, Naumburg, and In ...

Abbey Simon Abbey Henry Simon (January 8, 1920 – December 18, 2019) was an American concert pianist, teacher, and recording artist. He was a protégé of Josef Hofmann at the Curtis Institute of Music and a winner of the Naumburg International Piano Com ...

, William Kapell, Stephen Hough, and Harvey Shapiro. Winners of the Chamber Music Award include the

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, Miro, and Muir string quartets, and the

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Winners of the International Naumburg Competition

*1925 Catherine Wade-Smith, violinist
Adeline Masino, violinist
Bernard Ocko, violinist *1926 Phyllis Kraeuter, cellist
Margaret Hamilton, pianist
Sonia Skalka, pianist *1927 Dorothy Kendrick, pianist
William Sauber, pianist
Sadah Schwartz-Shuchari, violinist
Daniel Saidenberg, cellist
Julian Kahn, cellist *1928

Adele Marcus Adele Marcus (February 22, 1906 May 3, 1995) was an American pianist and instructor whose career was based at the Juilliard School in New York City. Life and career Marcus was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the youngest of 13 children of a rabbi ...

, pianist
Helen Berlin, violinist

Louis Kaufman Louis Kaufman (May 10, 1905 – February 9, 1994) was an American violinist. He played on the soundtrack of as many as 500 movies and made over 100 musical recordings. He is also credited with reviving the music of Antonio Vivaldi with his re ...

, violinist
Olga Zundel, cellist

George Rasely George Rasely (October 27, 1890, St. Louis, Missouri – 3 January 1965, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and musicals during the first half of the 20th century. He was also a frequent perf ...

, tenor
August Werner, baritone *1930 Helen McGraw, pianist
Ruth Culbertson, pianist
Mila Wellerson, cellist
Louise Bernhardt, contralto *1931 Lillian Rehberg Goodman, cellist
Marguerite Hawkins, soprano
Edwiria Eustis, contralto
Kurtis Brownell, tenor *1932 Milo Miloradovich, soprano
Foster Miller, bass-baritone
Dalies Frantz, pianist
Huddie Johnson, pianist
Inez Lauritano, violinist *1933 Catherine Carver, pianist
Harry Katzman, violinist *1934 Joseph Knitzer, violinist

Ruby Mercer Ruby Mercer, CM (26 July 1906 – 26 January 1999) was an American-born Canadian writer, broadcaster, soprano and entrepreneur. Mercer was born in Athens, Ohio, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1936, she made her debut as a member of ...

, soprano *1935 Benjamin De Loache, baritone
Judith Sidorsky, pianist
Aniceta Shea, soprano
Harvey Shapiro, cellist
Florence Vickland, soprano
Marshall Moss, violinist *1936 Frederick Buldrini, violinist *1937

Jorge Bolet Jorge Bolet (November 15, 1914October 16, 1990) was a Cuban-born American virtuoso pianist and teacher. Among his teachers were Leopold Godowsky, and Moriz Rosenthal – the latter an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt. Life Bolet was born in Havan ...

, pianist
Ida Krehm, pianist
Pauline Pierce, mezzo-soprano
Maurice Bialkin, cellist *1938

Carroll Glenn Elizabeth Carroll Glenn (October 28, 1918April 25, 1983) was an American violinist and music educator. Early years Glenn was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1918. She began studying violin under her mother’s guidance when she was four and con ...

, violinist *1939 Mara Sebriansky, violinist
William Horne, tenor
Zadel Skolovsky, pianist
Gertrude Gibson, soprano *1940

, pianist
Harry Cykman, violinist
Thomas Richner, pianist *1941 William Kapell, pianist

, violinist
Lura Stover, soprano *1942 Jane Rogers, contralto
Annette Elkanova, pianist

David Sarser David Sarser (January 31, 1921 – June 6, 2013)
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, violinist *1943 Dolores Miller, violinist

Constance Keene Constance Keene (9 February 192124 December 2005) was an American pianist, who was renowned for her 1964 recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Preludes and won critical acclaim for her recordings of the works of Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Carl Maria vo ...

, pianist
Ruth Geiger, pianist *1944 Jeanne Therrien, pianist
Jean Carlton, soprano

Carol Brice Carol Brice (April 16, 1918 – February 15, 1985) was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music i ...

, contralto *1945 Jane Boedeker, mezzo-soprano
Paula Lenchner, soprano *1946

Leonid Hambro Leonid Hambro (June 26, 1920 – October 23, 2006) was an American concert pianist and composer. Life Hambro was born in Chicago, the son of immigrant Lithuanian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films. He studied at the Juill ...

, pianist
Jeanne Rosenbium, pianist

Anahid Ajemian Anahid Marguerite Ajemian (January 26, 1924 – June 13, 2016) was an American violinist of Armenian descent. Her career in contemporary music began from her desire to help young composers of her generation get their compositions performed. A ...

, violinist *1947

Berl Senofsky Berl Senofsky (April 19, 1926 − June 21, 2002) was an American classical violinist and teacher, active during the twentieth century. Biography Senofsky was born in Philadelphia in 1926. His parents were violinists and had moved to the United S ...

, violinist
Abba Bogin, pianist
Jane Carlson, pianist *1948

Sidney Harth Sidney Harth (5 October 1925 in Cleveland – 15 February 2011 in Pittsburgh) was an American violinist and conductor. Education Harth was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music and studied with Joseph Knitze ...

, violinist

Paul Olefsky Paul Olefsky (January 4, 1926 – June 1, 2013) was an American cellist. Olefsky was born in Chicago. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Gregor Piatigorsky. Olefsky subsequently studied with Pabl ...

, cellist

Theodore Lettvin Theodore Lettvin (October 29, 1926 – August 24, 2003) was an American concert pianist and conductor. He was one of the four children of Solomon and Fannie Lettvin, two Jewish-Ukrainian immigrants who settled in Chicago. Neurophysiologist and ...

, pianist *1949

Lorne Munroe Lorne Munroe (November 24, 1924 – May 4, 2020) was an American cellist.Gibson, Ronald and Winters, Kenneth"Munroe, Lorne*, ''Encyclopedia of Music in Canada''. Accessed March 12, 2009 He was principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from ...

, cellist *1950 Angelene Collins, soprano
Esther Glazer, violinist

Betty Jean Hagen Betty-Jean Hagen (October 17, 1930 – December 29, 2016) was a Canadian-born violinist and musical educator living in the United States. Early life Hagen was born in Edmonton and studied violin there with Alexander Nicol. Hagen won awards at the ...

, violinist
Margaret Barthel, pianist *1951 June Kovach, pianist
Laurel Hurley, soprano
Joyce Flissler, violinist *1952 Diana Steiner, violinist
Yoko Matsuo, violinist

Lois Marshall Lois Catherine Marshall, CC (January 29, 1924 – February 19, 1997) was a Canadian soprano. Her husband, Weldon Kilburn, had been her early coach and piano accompanist. Early life and studies; awards Born in Toronto, Ontario, Marshall "began ...

, soprano *1953 Gilda Muhlbauer, violinist
Lee Cass, bass-baritone

Georgia Laster Georgia Ann Laster (November 18, 1927September 4, 1961) was an American Soprano (singer), soprano. Early life and education Laster was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She had five brothers. She sang in church choirs as a young girl. She attended ...

, soprano *1954 William Doppmann, pianist
Jean Wentworth, pianist

Jules Eskin Jules Louis Eskin (October 20, 1931 – November 15, 2016) was an American cellist who was the principal cellist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was born in Philadelphia. With conductor Seiji Ozawa, he is known for solo performances of wel ...

, cellist
Martha Flowers, soprano *1955

Ronald Leonard Ronald Leonard is an American cellist. He has had a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, principal cellist and teacher. He is currently on the faculties of the USC Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School. He was a winner of ...

, cellist
Mary MacKenzie, contralto
Nancy Cirillo, violinist *1956 Donald McCall, cellist
Wayne Connor, tenor
George Katz, pianist *1957 Regina Sarfaty, mezzo-soprano
Angelica Lozada, soprano
Michael Grebanier, cellist *1958 Joseph Schwartz, pianist
Shirley Verrett, mezzo-soprano
Elaine Lee, violinist *1959 Howard Aibel, pianist
Sophia Steffan, soprano

Ralph Votapek Ralph Votapek (born 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American pianist notable for winning the First Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1962; thinaugural competition's First Place prizewas $10,000. He is the Jury Chairman of th2022 (E ...

, pianist *1960

Joseph Silverstein Joseph Harry Silverstein (March 21, 1932 – November 21, 2015) was an American violinist and conductor. Known to family, friends and colleagues as "Joey", Silverstein was born in Detroit. As a youth, Silverstein studied with his father, Bernard ...

, violinist *1961

Werner Torkanowsky Werner Torkanowsky (born on 30 March 1926; died on 20 October 1992) was a successful German Conductor (music), conductor in both the concert hall and opera house. He was born in Berlin, Germany, and raised on a kibbutz in Israel, coming to the Uni ...

, conductor *1964 Elizabeth Mosher, soprano *1968 Jorge Mester, conductor *1971 Kun-Woo Paik, pianist
Zola Shaulis, pianist *1972

Robert Davidovici Robert Davidovici, born 1946, is a Romanian-American violinist. He took First Prize honors in the Naumburg Competition in 1972. In 1983, Davidovici tied for first place to co-win the Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. The p ...

, violinist *1973 Voice Edmund LeRoy, baritone First Prize
Barbara Hendricks, soprano Second Prize
Susan Davenny Wyner, soprano Third Prize *1974 Piano

Andre-Michel Schub Andre-Michel Schub (born 26 December 1952, in Paris) is a classical pianist. Biography Schub came to New York City with his family, when he was eight months old. He began his piano studies with his mother when he was four, and later continued his ...

, First Prize
Edith Kraft, Second Prize
Dickran Atamian, Third Prize *1975-76 (50th Anniversary Competitions) Piano: Dickran Atamian, pianist
Voice:

Clamma Dale Clamma Churita Dale (born 1948) is an American operatic soprano. She portrayed "Bess" in the highly successful 1976 Houston Grand Opera production of ''Porgy and Bess''. The show was transferred from Houston to Broadway and Dale was awarded a 1 ...

and Joy Simpson, sopranos (co-winners)
Violin:

, violinist *1977 Cello

Nathaniel Rosen Nathaniel "Nick" Rosen (born June 9, 1948 in Altadena, California) is an American cellist, the gold medalist of the 1978 International Tchaikovsky Competition, and former faculty member at the USC Thornton School of Music and the Manhattan School o ...

, First Prize

Thomas Demenga Thomas Demenga (born 12 June 1954) is a Swiss composer and cellist. Life and career Born in Bern, Demenga studied with Walter Grimmer, Antonio Janigro, Leonard Rose and Mstislav Rostropovich and at the Juilliard School in New York, among othe ...

, Second Prize
Georg Faust, Third Prize *1978 Flute Carol Wincenc, First Prize

Marya Martin Marya Martin is an American flautist with an active career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Born Mary Martin in New Zealand, Martin studied at the University of Auckland, where she had lessons with Richard Giese, then principal flut ...

, Second Prize
Gary Schocker, Third Prize *1979 Piano Peter Orth, First Prize
Miryo Park, Second Prize
Panayis Lyras, Third Prize *1980 Voice (four winners)

Faith Esham Faith Esham (born August 6, 1948) is an American soprano and college professor of voice. Life and career Faith Lou Esham was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and grew up in Vanceburg, Kentucky, the daughter of Dr. Elwood Esham (1905-1985) and Ruth Lo ...

, soprano
Irene Gubrud, soprano
Jan Opalach, bass-baritone
Lucy Shelton, soprano *1981 Violin

*1981 Cello

Colin Carr Colin Carr (born 25 October 1957) is a British cello soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and teacher. Biography Born in Liverpool, Carr is professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music. He taught at the New England Conservatory in Bosto ...

*1982 Viola Thomas Riebl *1983 Piano Stephen Hough, First Prize
David Allen Wehr, Second Prize
William Wolfram, Third Prize *1984 Violin (No First Prize awarded) Carmit Zori, Second Prize
Ian Swensen, Second Prize (co-winners) *1985 Voice Dawn Upshaw, soprano, First Prize
Christopher Trakas, baritone, First Prize *1985 Clarinet Charles Neidich, First Prize
John Grey, Second Prize
Daniel McKelway, Third Prize *1986 Cello Andrés Diáz, First Prize
Truls Mørk, Second Prize
Peter Wiley, Third Prize *1987 Piano

Anton Nel Anton Nel (born December 29, 1961) is a South African classical pianist. Biography Nel was born to Afrikaans-speaking parents in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nel made his debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven's C Major Concerto after only two ...

, First Prize
Andrew Wilde, Second Prize
William Wolfram, Third Prize *1988 Violin

, First Prize
Peter Winograd, Second Prize
Peter Matzka, Third Prize *1989 Voice

Stanford Olsen Stanford Olsen (born 1960) is an American tenor who has had an active international career in operas and concerts since 1983. He has sung with several of the world's leading opera companies, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala and the Roya ...

, tenor, First Prize

David Malis David Malis (born c. 1957) is an American operatic baritone. In 1985 he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. His roles include Papageno in Mozart's ''The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (German: , ), K. 620, is an opera i ...

, baritone, Second Prize
Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano, Third Prize *1990 Cello Hai-Ye Ni, First Prize
Gustav Rivinius, Second Prize
Marius May, Third Prize *1991 Viola Misha Amory, First Prize

Paul Coletti Paul Coletti (born 1959 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish viola soloist and chamber musician. He has performed throughout the world, making solo appearances at the Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) and Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires). H ...

, Second Prize
Roberto Diáz, Third Prize *1992 Piano

Awadagin Pratt Awadagin Pratt (; born March 6, 1966) is a concert pianist born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Life Awadagin Pratt began piano lessons at six with Leslie Sompong and violin lessons at age nine, having moved to Normal, Illinois. With a violin s ...

, First Prize
Mikhail Yanovitsky, Second Prize
Alan Gampel, Third Prize *1993 Violin Tomohiro Okumura, First Prize
Yehonatan Berick, Second Prize
Michael Shih, Third Prize *1994 Voice Theresa Santiago, soprano, First Prize
Leon Williams, baritone, Second Prize
Christópheren Nomura, baritone, Third Prize *1996 Classical Guitar Jorge Caballero, First Prize
Jason Vieaux, Second Prize
Kevin Gallagher, Third Prize *1997 Piano Steven Osborne, First Prize
Anthony Molinaro
First Prize (co-winners) *1998 Violin

Axel Strauss Axel Strauss (born 1974) is a German violinist, and a professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal. At the age of seventeen he won the silver medal at the Enescu Competition in Romania and has been recognized with ...

, First Prize
Jasmine Lin, Second Prize

Jennifer Frautschi Jennifer Frautschi (; born 1973) is an American violinist. A recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, she is currently Artist-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. She plays a 1722 Antonio Stradivari violin known as the " ex-Cadiz," on loan ...

, Third Prize *1999 Voice Stephen Salters, baritone, First Prize
Randall Scarlata, baritone, Second Prize
Hyunah Yu, soprano, Third Prize *2001 Violoncello

Clancy Newman Clancy Newman (born 1977) is an American cellist and composer. In 2001 he won first place in the International Naumburg Competition, and in 2004 he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Newman was born in Albany NY in 1977, to Australian parents. ...

, First Prize
Li Wei Qin, First Prize (co-winners) *2002 Piano Gilles Vonsattel, First Prize

Konstantin Soukovetski Konstantin Alekseyevich Soukhovetski (born January 19, 1981) was born into a family of artists, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He studied at the Moscow Central School under the auspices of the Moscow Conservatory, where his speci ...

, Second Prize
Lev Vincour, Third Prize *2003 Violin

Frank Huang Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since 2015 he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the first violinist of the Ying Quart ...

, First Prize

Ayano Ninomiya Ayano Ninomiya (born 1979) is a Japanese-American violinist and a winner of both the Naumburg International Violin Competition and Tibor Varga International Competitions. Early life Ninomiya was born in Takamatsu, Japan, and moved to the United ...

, Second Prize
Sharon Roffman, Third Prize *2005 Voice Sari Gruber, First Prize

Thomas Meglioranza Thomas Meglioranza (born October 7, 1970, New York, New York) is an American operatic baritone. Biography Meglioranza was born to an American father of Italian Americans, Italian and Polish Americans, Polish descent and a Thai people, Thai mother. ...

, Second Prize
Tyler Duncan, Third Prize

Amanda Forsythe Amanda Forsythe (born 1976) is an American light lyric soprano who is particularly admired for her interpretations of baroque music and the works of Rossini. Forsythe has received continued critical acclaim from many publications including ''Ope ...

, Honorable Mention *2006 Viola David Carpenter, First Prize
Eric Nowlin, Second Prize
Jonah Sirota, Third Prize
David Kim, Honorable Mention *2008 Cello David Requiro and Anita Leuzinger, First Prize

Sébastien Hurtaud Sébastien Hurtaud is a French classical cellist. Life Youth Hurtaud was born in La Rochelle in a family of artists: an older brother tenor and recorder player, Jean-Christophe Hurtaud and a sister pianist and art historian, Marie-Caroline Hur ...

, Third Prize
Saeunn Thorsteindottir,

Zara Nelsova Zara Nelsova (December 23, 1918October 10, 2002) was a prominent cellist. Biography Nelsova was born as Sara Katznelson in Winnipeg, Canada, to parents of Jewish-Russian descent. Nelsova first performed at the age of five in Winnipeg. She eventu ...

Prize
Umberto Clerici, Honorable Mention
David Eggert, Honorable mention *2010 Piano Soyeon Lee, First Prize

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, co-Second Prize

Ran Dank Ran Dank (born April 3, 1982) is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, NY, USA. Early life Dank started playing the piano at the age of seven with Yaakov Krantz. He went on to work with Liora Peleg at the Givaataim C ...

, co-Second Prize
Christopher Guzman, Honorable Mention *2012 Violin Tessa Lark, First Prize
Elly Suh, Second Prize
Kristin Lee, Third Prize *2014 Voice Julia Bullock, First Prize
Sidney Outlaw, Second Prize
Hyo Na Kim, Honorable Mention
Michael Kelly, Honorable mention *2015 Cello Lev Sivkov, First Prize
Jay Campbell and Brannon Cho, Second Prize * 2017 Piano

Albert Cano Smit Albert Cano Smit (born in Geneva, Switzerland on October 4, 1996) is a Spanish-Dutch classical pianist. He has won first prize at the prestigious 2017 Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Young Concert Artists Competition in 2019. ...

and Xiaohui Yang, First Prize

Tiffany Poon Tiffany Poon (born 29 December 1996, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born American YouTuber and classical pianist, currently residing in New York City. Career Poon began taking piano lessons at the age of 4. At 9, she moved to New York to study at t ...

, Second Prize * 2018 Violin Grace Park, First Prize

Shannon Lee Shannon Emery Lee Keasler (born April 19, 1969) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the only living child of martial artist Bruce Lee and retired martial arts teacher Linda Lee Cadwell, the granddaughter of Cantonese opera singer L ...

, Second Prize
Danbi Um, Third Prize * 2021 Voice Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano, First Prize
Megan Moore, mezzo-soprano, and William Socolof, bass-baritone, Second Prize * 2022 Saxophone Valentin Kovalev and Andreas Mader, First Prize
Robert (Chance) Stine, Second Prize

References

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The Naumburg Competition: Formula One for Finding Talent

Previous Winners

External links

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