1. After judges weigh-in with rankings in the various categories, we contact the first prize winner(s) by email, asking them to accept their prize designation(s).

2. Once we hear back positively from a winner, we post to facebook and also tweet when we will announce the winners and runners-up in that category. The announcement will be made on our blog and will include photos and bios of the winners and runners-up, and notification of any special Citations or Honorable Mentions.

3. Personalized press releases will be sent to the media contacts of all winners. A copy of the press release will be sent to those individuals.

4. After all the winners have been announced in all categories, we assemble and send packets of awards and certificates to the addresses we have on file. If your address has changed since you applied, please send an update to theamericanprize@gmail.com and put the words “New Address” in the subject line of the email.

Please be patient while we make these announcements. Sometimes we are waiting to hear from an individual on our judging panel, or for an acceptance. We will announce winners as soon as we possibly can.

Contests now honor

IVES, ANDERSON, PUTSCHE

The American Prize contest renamed to honor Danbury, CT native, Charles Ives

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, based in Danbury, Connecticut, is honored to rename its contest in Chamber Music composition in honor of Danbury native, Charles Ives, whose sesquicentennial is being celebrated worldwide in 2024.

Henceforth to be known as The American Prize CHARLES IVES AWARD in Chamber Music, the contest honors the composer’s extraordinary legacy, especially of song, while recognizing and rewarding the finest composers of chamber music in the U.S. in professional, college/university, high school and community divisions.

At left, Leonard Bernstein at the Danbury Fairgrounds, exactly fifty years ago, on July 4, 1974, there with Michael Tilson Thomas, the American Symphony Orchestra and guest choirs, to conduct a concert in front of an estimated 7000, honoring Ives in commemoration of his 100th birthday, a concert in which a young David Katz sang.

https://www.theamericanprize.org/chambermusic.html

The American Prize contest renamed to honor Danbury, CT resident,

Marian Anderson

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts, based in Danbury, Connecticut, is honored to rename its Social Justice award in memory of the internationally acclaimed contralto and longtime Danbury resident, Marian Anderson.

Henceforth to be known as The American Prize Marian Anderson Award in Social Justice, the award honors the extraordinary legacy of one of America’s greatest performing artists, while annually recognizing and rewarding The American Prize laureate who best exemplifies the singer’s courage and trailblazing fortitude as an artist of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. Visit any contest page of The American Prize, accessed via the COMPETITIONS button in the menu bar, to learn more.

At left, Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Prize laureate soprano, Awet Andemicael, performs in the Marian Anderson Studio on the campus of the Danbury Museum, in a concert sponsored by Hat City Music Theater, Inc., administrators of The American Prize.

www.theamericanprize.org

The American Prize

Thomas Putsché Award in Composition,

Opera/Theater/MusicTheater/Film/Dance division

The American Prize THOMAS PUTSCHE AWARD in Composition (opera/theater/film/dance division), remembers the artistry of the American, Thomas Putsché (poo-shay), composer of the once celebrated, now nearly forgotten chamber opera, The Cat and the Moon, based on the play and poem by William Butler Yeats.

Written in 1957 and recorded by the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago for CRI, The Cat and the Moon, was, in the words of David Katz, founder and chief judge of The American Prize, “a seminal discovery in my young life as a musician, displaying stunning craftsmanship and deep feeling, it seems now to epitomize the reasons I created The American Prize competitions—to bring recognition and reward to artists and to works that might otherwise go unheralded.

It was my personal choice to rename this division of The American Prize in Composition in Tom Putsché’s memory, a man I had the honor to know at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in the 1970s and whose opera remains fundamental in memory to this day.”

https://www.theamericanprize.org/operamusictheater.html

The American Prize WEBSITE has been updated for all

2024-25 contests,

with revised deadlines

in July.

Applications now being accepted.

Visit:

Competition Information

theamericanprize.org

and click the "COMPETITIONS" menu to get started.

About the

VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE contest for the coming 2024 season:

Although this category—created during the height of the pandemic—is no longer a stand-alone contest, we still welcome virtual performances in all divisions, whether created remotely or performed together. Simply submit yours as a link with your other application materials.

Should applications warrant, we may offer an additional prize in Virtual Performance in any division.

Looking for RECENT WINNERS of The American Prize?

WINNERS 2023:

* Complete results for the 2023 season of contests are posted. Find links in the December 2023 issue of "What's on TAP," our e-newsletter: https://conta.cc/3Rum5Gz

WINNERS 2022:

* Winner announcements for all 2022 contests may be found here:

Visit: https://conta.cc/3TQPgTx, which takes you to an edition of 'What's on TAP," our e-newsletter, containing links to complete 2022 results.

WINNERS 2021 & 2020:

* See 2021 contest results here:

https://conta.cc/3b6kjqI

and for the 2020 season:

http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-american-prize-winning-links-all.html

Additional results may be found on our blog.

Read about our DISTINGUISHED JUDGES here:

https://www.theamericanprize.org/judges2014.html

and here:

https://www.theamericanprize.org/davidkatz.html

And look for:

The American Prize

INDEPENDANCE DAY HONORS

COMING in the JULY 4th EDITION

of "What's on TAP"

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. There are no age limits.

Founded in 2010 and now celebrating its fourteenth year, The American Prize has awarded

nearly $150,000 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, Inc., a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit organization based in Danbury, CT.

www.theamericanprize.org

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