Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition
- Public Event
Music lovers are invited to participate in the 59th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, which offers musicians (and savvy audience members) an experience of chamber music with unparalleled intensity and intimacy. Saturday, April 30, 2005, up to 16 finalists will vie for the $7,500 Alice Coleman Prize, the $4,000 Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings, and the $4,000 Coleman-Saunderson Prize for Winds or Brass. The Competition is open to the public, free of charge. The winners will be presented in formal concert Sunday, May 01, 2005, at 3:30 p.m.
The Competition began in 1947 as the Coleman Auditions for young, non-professional performers; today's competing ensembles still have an average age of less than 26. An abbreviated list of past winners includes Glenn Dicterow; Grant Gershon; Jeffrey Kahane; Anne-Marie McDermott; Paula Robison; Nathaniel Rosen; Morton Subotnick; the Ahn Trio; eighth blackbird; and the Cavani, Colorado, Pacifica, Tokyo, and Vega quartets. Competition judges have included Jascha Heifetz; Natalie Limonick; Mehli Mehta; Gregor Piatigorsky; Artur Rubinstein; Eudice Shapiro; Arnold Steinhardt; Henri Temianka; the Beaux Arts Trio; and the Amadeus, Budapest, Opus One, and Smetana Quartets.
The Competition is sponsored, in part, by George W. Housner.