The Kurt Weill Foundation has announced the winners for the 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition. Taking home first prize and $25,000 was Ana Karneža of Slovenia. Christian Mark Gibbs and Jason Zacher were the recipients of $20,000 each and second prize. Joseph Sacchi was the winner of Outstanding Vocal Achievement while Queen Hezumuryango was the winner of Outstanding Performance of a {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has named the 10 finalists for the 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition. The finalists include Kendra Dyck, Christian Mark Gibbs, Ta’Nika Gibson, Queen Hezumuryango, Rebekah Howell, Ana Karneža, Kaileigh Riess, Joseph Sacchi, Logan Wagner, and Jason Zacher. “The Lenya Competition is unique and truly special in its discovery of those rare performers who communicate text {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation has announced the semifinalists for the 2024 Lotte Lenya Competition. The 20 semifinalsts include: Nayeli Abrego (Ottawa, Ontario) Matthew Amira (New York, NY) Kendra Dyck (Toronto, Ontario) Christian Mark Gibbs (New York, NY) Ta’Nika Gibson (Springfield, MA) Queen Hezumuryango (Bujumbura, Burundi) Rebekah Howell (Hendersonville, TN) Hugo Kampschreur (Arnhem, Netherlands) Ana Karneža (Ptujska Gora, Slovenia) Shavon Lloyd {…}
The Lotte Lenya Competition has announced the semifinalists for its 25th-anniversary edition. The 24 contestants include: Ruby Dibble (Kansas City, MO) Taylor-Alexis DuPont (Orlando, FL) Kendra Dyck (Toronto, Canada) Rebekah Howell (Hendersonville, TN) Ryan Johnson (Muleshoe, TX) Stavros Koumbaros (Shelton, CT) Sam Krausz (St. Louis, MO) Olivia LaPointe (Fredericton, Canada) Katherine Leidlein (New York, NY) Ryan Lustgarten (Kirkland, WA) Midori Marsh {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has announced the winners of the 24th annual Lotte Lenya Competition. The final round took place at Merkin Hall on May 6 with Amanda Sheriff taking home the First Prize of $20,000. The judges said that Sheriff “did it all,” citing her “sensual, funny, and heartbreaking” realization of a program that showed her willingness {…}
The Lotte Lenya Competition announced the final round of this year’s competition and the 11 finalists that will be competing. The final will be held at Merkin Hall in New York City on May 6 beginning at 1 p.m. Among the competitors are Ruth Acheampong, Eric Botto, Cierra Byrd, Katrina Galka, Francesca Mehrotra, Lauren Senden, Amanda Sheriff, Tristan Tournaud, Jeremy {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has announced that Lauren Worsham and Victoria Clark are the coach-judges for the semifinal round of the 2022 Lotte Lenya Competition. Worsham, a past prizewinner of the competition, is also a Drama Desk Award Winner. Meanwhile, Clark is a Tony Award winner who is set to open “Kimberly Akimbo” later this year. In total {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has announced the world premiere of a new documentary film “Down to Twelve: The 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition Finalists.” Audiences can check out the film starting on Saturday, May 2 starting at 11 a.m. EDT at the company’s official website. The film, which lasts 75-minutes, follows the 12 finalists during the two-day semifinals in {…}
The Kurt Weil Foundation For Music announced 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition semi-finalists. This is the full list of young artists who have made to the semi-finals: Michael Aiello, Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod, David Anderson, Zarah Brock, Anighya Crocker, Michael Day, Darren Drone, Kaden Forsberg, Crystal Glenn, Dylan Glenn, Rivers Hawkins, Jonathan Heller, Michael Hewitt, Jonah Hoskins, Elena Howard-Scott, Stephanie Jabre, Gemma {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music announced the winners for the 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition. The competition, which was held at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on April 13, handed its first prize of $20,000 to Daniel Berryman. Meanwhile Andrea Wozniak won the $15,000 Second Prize. Trevor Martin received the Third Prize of $10,000. In addition to the {…}
The Kurt Weill Foundation has announced the 28 semifinalists for the 2019 Lotte Lenya Competition. Among the semifinalists were a whopping 24 Americans, one Canadian, two Germans, and one Russian. Nine of the semifinalists were over the age of 30 and 19 were under 30; of those 19, six were under the age of 25. The semifinalists are Lily Arbisser {…}