WILLIAM MATHEUS SULLIVAN FOUNDATION SINGER AWARDS
ANNOUNCED FOR 2008


The William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation awarded twelve $10,000 grants to young artists who auditioned for the Foundation in New York on November 5-7, 2007. In addition to these cash awards, winners will participate in the five-year program of continued financial aid for coaching in new roles which is one of the unique features of the Sullivan awards. Judges for the auditions were Barbara Bliss, Bruce Donnell, John Moriarty and Evans Mirageas.

The Sullivan winners

Winners of $10,000 awards and continuing assistance starting in 2008 are: sopranos Ann-Carolyn Bird, Janinah Burnett, Kiera Duffy, Takesha Meshe Kizart, Angela Meade, Yannick-Muriel Noah, Lisette Oropesa, Heidi Stober, and Erica Strauss; mezzo-soprano Leah Wool; tenor Joseph Gaines; and baritone Matthew Worth. Yannick-Muriel Noah’s award is named for Theodor Uppman, the famed baritone who was a longtime member of the Board of the Foundation, and Takesha Kizart’s award is named for soprano Rose Bampton, also a longtime member of the Foundation’s board, who died in October.

These winners now join the current roster of artists who have won Sullivan awards in previous years, all of whom may apply to the Foundation for grants for preparing new roles in opera or other works with full orchestra.

The panel also awarded $3500 encouragement grants to ten singers: sopranos Andriana Chuchman, Erica Cochran, Grazia Doronzio, and Amber Wagner; mezzo-soprano Meredith Ziegler; counter-tenor Jason Abrams; tenor Jeffrey Halili; baritone Christopher Herbert; bass-baritone Darren Stokes; and bass Grigory Soloviov.


 


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