Coleman Chamber Competition

One of Coleman's most unique and exciting events is the annual Chamber Ensemble Competition. Celebrating its 62nd anniversary in 2008, the Competition is one of the most prestigious in the country and each year attracts gifted young artists from universities and conservatories around the country as well as from abroad. Finalists compete for the $7,500 Alice Coleman Prize, the $4,000 Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings and the $4,000 Coleman-Saunderson Prize for Winds and Brass. The Competition is open to the public, free of charge. The winners will be presented in concert on Sunday, April 13, 2008.

Since 1947, the Competition has helped launch the careers of many performers including Glenn Dicterow, Grant Gershon, Jeffrey Kahane, Anne-Marie McDermott, Nathaniel Rosen, Morton Subotnik, the Ahn Trio, eighth blackbird, and the Calder, Cavani, Colorado, Pacifica, Tokyo, and Vega Quartets. Competition judges have included some of the finest musicians of the day: Jascha Heifetz, Natalie Limonick, Mehli Mehta, Gregor Piatigorsky, Artur Rubinstein, Leonard Stein, Arnold Steinhardt, Henri Temianka, the Beaux Arts Trio and members of the American, Budapest, Opus One and Smetana Quartets.

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