"WHAT's on TAP"

E-newsletter for contestants, laureates, judges & friends of

The American Prize (TAP)

The National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts

7666 Subscribers

David (Volosin) Katz, founder and chief judge, editor


December 2025 Major Edition


* COMPLETE 2025 CONTEST RESULTS

* Update on certificate packages and addresses

* Links to other recent winners & current judges


copyright 2010-2025—HCMT The American Prize



2025 NATIONAL RESULTS

in all categories




Below, please find links to

2024-2025 FINALISTS & WINNERS

as published on our blog.

CONGRATULATIONS to all 2025 Laureates!


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or on X (TWITTER) https://twitter.com/americanprize?lang=en,

and on our BLOG: http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com

Announcements of 2025-26 Finalists begin after January.



VOICE

2025 National Finalists & Winners

(The Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards)

Art Song (men) / winners

Art Song (women) / winners

Opera / winners


PIANO

2025 National Finalists & Winners

Solo Piano / winners

Piano Concerto (Lorin Hollander Award) / winners


INSTRUMENTAL SOLOISTS

2025 National Finalists / winners


CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

2025 National Finalists / winners


COMPOSITION

2025 National Finalists & Many Winners

Music for Band / winners

Music for Orchestra / winners

Choral music (major works) / winners

Choral music (shorter works) / winners

Music for Opera/Theater/Film/Dance—Putsché Award / winners

Pops/Light Music / winners

Instrumental Chamber Music—Ives Award / winners

Vocal Chamber Music—Ives Award / winners


CONDUCTING

2025 National Finalists & Many Winners

Orchestral Programming (Marijosius Award) / winners

Musical Theater / winners

Opera / winners

Band / winners

Orchestra / winners

Chorus—Dale Warland Award / winners


CONDUCTED ENSEMBLES

2025 National Finalists

Bands / winners

Choruses / winners

Orchestras / winners

Opera Companies / winners

Theater/Musical Theater Companies / winners


STAGE DIRECTORS—Charles Nelson Reilly Prize

2025 National Finalists

Theater/Musical Theater / winners

Opera / winners


AMERICAN MUSIC PERFORMANCE—Ernst Bacon Award

2025 National Finalists

soloists and composers / winners

conductors and ensembles / winners


Marian Anderson Award in SOCIAL JUSTICE

winners



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CERTIFICATE PACKAGES

Certificate packages (and cash awards) will be sent to first place winners in January, followed by runners-up, then finalists.

Please be patient as each certificate is prepared individually,

and with care.


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IF YOUR ADDRESS HAS CHANGED

since you applied, please send us the updated information by putting

"NEW ADDRESS" in the subject line of an email to theamericanprize@gmail.com

We need updated information to send certificate packages. 

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Looking for other RECENT WINNERS of

The American Prize?


WINNERS 2024:

* Complete results for the 2024 season of contests are posted. Find links in the December 2024 issue of "What's on TAP," our e-newsletter: https://conta.cc/3ZyBtWL


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 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



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 fifteenth year, The American Prize has awarded

nearly $165,000 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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