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

Elkan Naumburg Elkan Naumburg (1835–1924) was a New York City merchant, banker, philanthropist and musicologist, best remembered for his sponsorship of the arts in Manhattan. From the last quarter of the nineteenth century, he used his wealth to promote p ...

. 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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, and

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were all eligible to compete. In 1928 it was expanded to include

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. 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,

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and

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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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, and

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). Winners receive a cash prize and two recital appearances in

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. 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 Dawn Upshaw (born July 17, 1960) is an American soprano. She is the recipient of several Grammy Awards and has released a number of Edison Award-winning discs; she performs both opera and art song, and her repertoire spans Baroque to contempor ...

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 William Kapell (September 20, 1922October 29, 1953) was an American pianist and recording artist, killed at the age of 31 in the crash of a commercial airliner returning from a concert tour in Australia. Biography William Kapell was born in New ...

Stephen Hough Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough (; born 22 November 1961) is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality (his father was born in Australia in 1926). Biography Houg ...

, and Harvey Shapiro. Winners of the Chamber Music Award include the

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, Miro, and Muir string quartets, and the

Eroica Trio The Eroica Trio is an American piano trio consisting of Erika Nickrenz, piano; Sara Parkins, violin; and Sara Sant'Ambrogio, cello. The trio take their name from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony. They have toured and recorded widely, and released si ...

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

, pianist

, violinist
Lura Stover, soprano *1942 Jane Rogers, contralto
Annette Elkanova, pianist
David Sarser, 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 Juil ...

, 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, cellist
Theodore Lettvin, pianist *1949 Lorne Munroe, 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, 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 Regina Sarfaty (born 1934), later "Regina Sarfaty Rickless" after her marriage to Elwood A. Rickless in 1963, is an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active career during the 1950s through the 1980s. Sarfaty first rose to prominence throu ...

, mezzo-soprano
Angelica Lozada, soprano
Michael Grebanier, cellist *1958 Joseph Schwartz, pianist

Shirley Verrett Shirley Verrett (May 31, 1931 – November 5, 2010) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into soprano roles, i.e. soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s through the 1990s, particularly we ...

, 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 Jorge Mester (born April 10, 1935, Mexico City) is a Mexican conductor of Hungarian ancestry. He has served as the artistic director for the Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, Veracruz, since it was founded in 2014. Biography He studied condu ...

, conductor *1971

Kun-Woo Paik Kun-woo Paik (born March 10, 1946 in Seoul) is a South Korean pianist. He has performed with multiple orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic. Early life Kun-Woo Pa ...

, pianist
Zola Shaulis, pianist *1972 Robert Davidovici, violinist *1973 Voice Edmund LeRoy, baritone First Prize

Barbara Hendricks Barbara Hendricks (born November 20, 1948) is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citiz ...

, 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, 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 Panayis Lyras, earlier known as Panaghis Lykiardopoulos or Panayis Lykiardopoulos, is an American classical pianist. Lyras was born in Athens, Greece, in 1953. At age six he attended the Athens Conservatoire and emigrated with his family to Ame ...

, 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 Lucy Shelton is an American soprano best known for her performance of contemporary music. She graduated from The Putney School in 1961 and Pomona College in 1965. The only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumberg Award twice (as ...

, 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 Bo ...

*1982 Viola Thomas Riebl *1983 Piano

, 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

, soprano, First Prize
Christopher Trakas, baritone, First Prize *1985 Clarinet

Charles Neidich Charles Neidich (born 1953 in New York City) is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor. Early career A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich ...

, First Prize
John Grey, Second Prize
Daniel McKelway, Third Prize *1986 Cello Andrés Diáz, First Prize

Truls Mørk Truls Olaf Otterbech Mørk (born 25 April 1961) is a Norwegian Cello, cellist. Biography Mørk was born in Bergen, Norway to a cellist father, John Fritjof Mørk, and a pianist mother, Turid Otterbech. His mother began teaching him the piano wh ...

, Second Prize

Peter Wiley Peter Wiley (born 1955) is a cellist and cello teacher. He entered the Curtis Institute of Music at 13 years of age, where he studied with David Soyer. He was then appointed principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony at age 20, after one year ...

, 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, 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 Gustav Rivinius (born in 1965 in Saarland) is a German cellist and professor for cello at the Hochschule für Musik Saar. Life Rivinius began his cello studies at the age of six with Hermann Dirr in Munich. Later he studied in Saarbrücken for s ...

, Second Prize
Marius May, Third Prize *1991 Viola Misha Amory, First Prize
Paul Coletti, 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 Jason Vieaux (born July 17, 1973, in Buffalo, New York) is an American classical guitarist. He began his musical training in Buffalo, New York at the age of eight, after which he continued his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1992, ...

, 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, 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 Qua ...

, 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 '' ...

, Honorable Mention *2006 Viola

David Carpenter David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), a.k.a. The Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer and serial rapist known for stalking and murdering a variety of individuals on hiking trails in state parks near San Francisco, California. He ...

, 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, 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 Soyeon Kate Lee (이소연) is a Korean-American classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, US. She is on the College and Pre-College piano faculty at the Juilliard School. Early life and education Born in Seoul, South Korea, Soyeon ...

, First Prize

Alexandre Moutouzkine Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom o ...

, 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 Tessa Lark is an American concert violinist from Kentucky. Early life Lark was born and raised in Richmond, Kentucky. She started violin training at age six through the Suzuki method. Her musical career began performing and recording with her ...

, First Prize
Elly Suh, Second Prize
Kristin Lee, Third Prize *2014 Voice

Julia Bullock Julia Bullock is an American soprano originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Anthony Tommasini from ''The New York Times'' has called her an "impressive, fast-rising soprano... poised for a significant career”. Education Born in 1987, Bullock joi ...

, 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 and Xiaohui Yang, First Prize
Tiffany Poon, 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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