COMPLETE 2020-21 WINNER RESULTS in all categories / Plus: WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

Now that all results in the COVID-delayed 2020-21 season of contests have been announced, we turn to completing certificate packages and sending evaluations and awards.

Winners and runners-up are sent first, followed by honorable mentions and citation recipients, then finalists. If your address has changed since you applied and you have no yet sent us the change, please UPDATE your U.S. mail address by emailing us at [email protected] and putting NEW ADDRESS in the subject line of the email. (Please note that in many cases evaluations will be emailed following the posting of certificate packages. This saves us time and, in certain cases, postage.)

2021-22 CONTESTS just starting:

FIRST NEWS for all applicants

(semi-finalist announcements)

Applications for the 2021-22 season of contests have closed and applicants should have received an official confirmation from the office.

Questions, please email:

[email protected]

Contestants are now being collated into the various contests and divisions before we begin the selection of semi-finalists. Semi-finalist announcements will begin later this fall.

You can follow the schedule of announcements on:

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and on our

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CONGRATULATIONS

to renowned choral conductor and composer,

Dale Warland,

winner of

The American Prize National Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2021.

The American Prize in Conducting, choral division, has been renamed The American Prize Dale Warland Award in his honor.

Read the full story and about all our 2021 Independence Day Honorees here.

The American Prize

welcomes six

new judges

to our distinguished national panel.

Read their bios on our blog or visit the judges pages on our website to read bios of all our artist judges.

Michael S. Butler—Youngstown, OH

Michael S. Butler is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music in the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University.

Pierce Emata—Las Vegas, NV

Mr. Emata is on the summer piano faculty at the internationally renown Interlochen Center for the Arts, where he teaches master classes and private lessons to gifted students.

Joanne Polk—New York, NY

Ms. Polk is a member of the piano faculty of Manhattan School of Music, and is an exclusive Steinway artist.

Jennifer Rodgers—Ames, IA

Dr. Jennifer Rodgers is the Assistant Director of Choral Activities and an Assistant Teaching Professor in the voice division at

Iowa State University.

Ulli Reiner—Poway, CA

Ulli Reiner, a five-time nominated Grammy Education Award finalist and a top ten finalist for 2017, is the Orchestra Director for the Poway Unified School District, an adjunct faculty member of Palomar College, and Concertmaster of the Palomar Symphony Orchestra.

Ken Walicki—Brea, CA

Ken Walicki is an American composer who is widely recognized for his dramatic and engaging music; his sound world has evolved into a unique combination of Art, Pop, Jazz, and World music.

"LIKE NO OTHER..."

The American Prize: "a competition

for the rest of us"

David Katz, chief judge of The American Prize, writes about the unique nonprofit competitions of The American Prize-—how they are different, why they are truly:

...competitions for the rest of us...

The American Prize

National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts

is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the musical and theater arts.

The American Prize is nonprofit, unique in scope and structure, and is designed to evaluate,

recognize and reward the best performers, composers, conductors, ensembles and directors

in the United States, based on submitted recordings.

There is no live competition.

Founded in 2010 and now celebrating its eleventh anniversary, The American Prize has awarded

more than $100,000 in prizes in all categories since its creation. Thousands of artists

representing all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of

The American Prize.

David (Volosin) Katz is founder and chief judge of The American Prize.

The American Prize is administered by Hat City Music Theater, Incd., a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit organization based in Danbury, CT.

www.theamericanprize.org

The American Prize offices

will be closed

November 15 through 30, 2021

to recharge our batteries and prepare for the 2021-22 season.