2022 Competition Jury
Jenny Bilfield
Jenny Bilfield is the President and CEO of Washington Performing Arts. Based in Washington, D.C. and founded in 1965, the organization has long been one of the nation’s preeminent multi-disciplinary arts presenters and was the first organization of its kind to receive the coveted National Medal of Arts, conferred by President Obama at the White House. Bilfield has positioned Washington Performing Arts as an important incubator of imaginative mainstage, community, and education programs and a commissioner of new works and productions—a hallmark of her career.
Sara Davis Buechner
Sara Davis Buechner is one of the leading concert pianists of our time, a musician of “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), with “sovereign command of the keyboard” (Los Angeles Times). She was the Gold Medalist of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, and a Bronze Medalist in the 1986 Tschaikowsky International Piano Competition in Moscow. Sara Davis Buechner is the most prominent transgender musician appearing on the classical concert stage today, and has been lauded as a champion of LGBTQ+ rights.
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Phillippa Cole
Phillippa Cole is the director of artistic planning for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she served as the associate director of artistic planning for the Los Angeles Philharmonic where she programmed classical music for the Hollywood Bowl and the Green Umbrella series. She spent twelve years as an agent with Askonas Holt artist management company where she represented seventeen artists, focusing on conductors, singers, and stage directors.
Anthony Roth Costanzo
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. He is a GRAMMY nominee, a recipient of the 2020 Beverly Sills Award from the Metropolitan Opera, a winner of the 2020 Opera News Award, and Musical America’s 2019 Vocalist of the Year. He has performed at a wide-ranging variety of venues including Carnegie Hall, Versailles, The Kennedy Center, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Sawdust, Minamiza Kyoto, Joe’s Pub, The Guggenheim, The Park Avenue Armory, and Madison Square Garden.
Brandon Patrick George
Brandon Patrick George is a leading flute soloist and chamber musician, with an adventurous repertoire extending from the baroque to today. He is the flutist of the Grammy®-nominated Imani Winds and has made appearances as a concerto soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra, among others. His debut album, featuring works by Kalevi Aho, J.S. Bach, Pierre Boulez, and Sergei Prokofiev, was released by Haenssler Classics in September 2020.
Jaime Martín
In 2022, Spanish conductor Jaime Martín takes on the position of Chief Conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Since 2019 Maestro Martín has been Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, with his appointment now extended up to 2027, and Chief Conductor of Ireland’s RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra. He has been the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra since 2013, and was recently announced as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España (Spanish National Orchestra) for the 22/23 season.
Tavia Nyong’o
Tavia Nyong’o was named Curator of Public Programming at Park Avenue Armory in September 2021 and is Chair and Professor of Theater & Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Professor of African-American Studies at Yale University. His current research and teaching interests span black queer cultural and performance studies, contemporary art and aesthetic theory, speculative genres, afrofuturism, and black sound studies. Nyong’o’s first book, The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009) won the Errol Hill award for the best book in black theater and performance studies.
Asadour Santourian
Asadour Santourian, Vice President of Tanglewood Music Center & Learning, comes to TMC after having been with the Aspen Music Festival & School since 2003. At AMFS, he developed the season themes, other artistic initiatives including the Overtures series featuring the chamber music of Beethoven and Mozart and the thematic minifestivals. In his time the AMFS garnered seven ASCAP Awards for Adventuresome Programming of Contemporary Music. From 1991 to 2000 he was the Minnesota Orchestra’s director of artistic planning and was appointed as the orchestra's artistic advisor in Fall of 2014.
Kathy Schuman
Kathy Schuman is currently the Artistic Director of Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, NY. For fifteen years, she was the Artistic Administrator of Carnegie Hall part of the Artistic Planning team which programmed its three venues in a wide variety of musical genres. Kathy began her career in arts management at Frank Salomon Associates and the Marlboro Music Festival. Living in London from 1995 to 2001, she was Administrator of the Contemporary Music Network at the Arts Council of England, and then Associate Director of Intermusica Artist Management.
John Glover
Described as "an unabashedly expressive composer," (New Yorker) John Glover has created music for concert, opera, dance, and theater. He has received commissions from organizations and artists including Houston Grand Opera, On Site Opera, The New York Youth Symphony, Washington National Opera, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, pianist Adam Tendler, American Conservatory Theater, Mirror Visions Ensemble, and the Five Boroughs Music Festival. His work has been presented in venues ranging from Rockwood Music Hall to Carnegie Hall, The Invisible Dog to the Rothko Chapel. John serves as the Director of Artistic Planning for Kaufman Music Center.
CAG/YCAT Staff Jury
Tanya Bannister
President - CAG
Chris Williams
Senior Vice President, Artist Management and Partnerships - CAG
Tim Mar
Vice President, Artist Management and Innovation - CAG
Alasdair Tait
Chief Executive and Artistic Director - Young Classical Artists Trust
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