The Gilmore Artist Award is awarded every four years to a concert pianist. The award was established in 1989 by The Gilmore of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Selection criteria In contrast with other music awards, nominees are not aware that they are under consideration, but are assessed discreetly over a period of time through live performances and recordings. The prize money is $300,000, of which $50,000 to be spent as the winner desires and $250,000 to be used for career development.
Previous winners 1991 – David Owen Norris (England) 1994 – Ralf Gothóni (Finland) 1998 – Leif Ove Andsnes (Norway) 2002 – Piotr Anderszewski (Poland) 2006 – Ingrid Fliter (Argentina) 2010 – Kirill Gerstein (Russia) 2014 – Rafał Blechacz (Poland) 2018 – Igor Levit (Russia/Germany) 2024 – Alexandre Kantorow (France)
Gilmore Young Artist Award Every two years, the Gilmore Young Artist Award is presented to promising pianists below age 23. An anonymous selection committee receives and evaluates nominations by music professionals from around the world. As with the Gilmore Artist Award, the nominees are not aware that they are being considered. Awardees receive a $15,000 stipend and another $10,000 to commission an original piano composition that they will have the exclusive right to perform for one year."Gilmore Young Artist Award", Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, accessed May 2, 2012
The award was first granted in 1991. 38 pianists have received a Gilmore Young Artists Award.
+ Gilmore Young Artist Award winners Year Recipients 1991 Wendy Chen Brenda Huang Peter Miyamoto Christopher Taylor 1994 Soojin Ahn Anders Martinson Andrea Schneider 1996 Andrew Armstrong Katherine K. Lee Adam Neiman Orli Shaham Alex Slobodyanik 1998 Hsing-ay Hsu Brenda Jones 2000 Andrew von Oeyen Orion Weiss 2002 Jonathan Biss Kirill Gerstein 2004 Christopher Falzone Elizabeth Schumann 2006 Natasha Paremski Yuja Wang 2008 Adam Golka Rachel Naomi Kudo 2010 Charlie Albright Ivan Moshchuk 2012 George Li Conrad Tao 2014 Andrew Hsu Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner 2016 Daniel Hsu Micah McLaurin 2018 Wei Luo Elliot Wuu 2020 Misha Galant Maxim Lando 2022 Janice Carissa Clayton Stephenson 2024 Kasey Shao Harmony Zhu
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Gilmore Young Artist Award.