About the competitions

The LMC Award Tour solo competition is open to classical performers of piano, voice, strings and wind instruments. Each year four awards of $3000 are presented. The ensemble competition is open to classical performers of voice, strings and winds in groups of three, four, or five members. One award of $3000, $4,000 or $5,000 ($1000 per group member) is presented to the winner of the small ensemble competition.

In addition, all finalists in the solo competition receive an award of $250, and all groups in the small ensemble competition receive an award of $300, $400, or $500 ($100 per group member) after performing in the live finals.

The competition finals are open to the public, and winners are presented in recital in Seattle on the day of the finals. In September, the solo winners participate in an outreach tour, traveling in Washington state, presenting public recitals and visiting schools to perform and answer students’ questions about music. The small ensemble winner participates in a one-day school residency and performs one recital in the Seattle area.

2013 competition and tour dates

Application deadline for both competitions: March 31, 2013
Finals competition and winners recital: June 8, 2013
Tour for solo winners: Sept. 15–20, 2013
Residency and recital in Seattle area for small ensemble winner: Sept. 13–14, 2013

Eligibility

Solo competition: Applicants must be between the ages of 20 and 35 and either a resident of or a music student in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, or Montana.

Ensemble competition: Averaged age of the ensemble members must be between 20 and 35, and all members must be either a resident of or a music student in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, or Montana.

Applications

Thank you for your interest in the LMC competitions. The deadline for the 2013 competition has past. Applications for the 2014 competition will be available for download early in 2014.

Contact our Award Tour committee

The following musicians were selected on June 2 as the 2012 Awards Tour solo competition winners:

Iejin Rhee, piano	Mayumi Tayake, piano
Meta Weiss, cello	Jae-In Shin, violin

Alternate winners were Tae Kim, piano and Erin Calata, mezzo-soprano.

And our first-ever ensemble competition winner was Puget Sound Saxophone Quartet.

They are, from left to right: Joseph Bozich, Soprano Sax; Jamie Rottle, Alto Sax;
Chester Baughman, Baritone Sax; Chase Nicholson, Tenor Sax

Congratulations to all!

Here are the Award Tour winners in each instrument category since the competition began.

Violin

Simon Shiao (1991), Adrianna Hulscher (1989, 1997), Sunny Lee (1993), Rachel Snow (1995), John S. Kim (1998), James Garlick (2006), Rebecca Hunter (2007), Jennifer Caine (2008), Melody Lee (2011), Jae-In Shin (2012)

Viola

Karie Prescott (1985), Scott Ligoki (1989,92), Charles Noble (1994), Mara Lise Gearman (2003), Zach Dellinger (2009)

Cello

Wendy Parson (1985), Ian Ginsburg (1986), Elizabeth Simkin (1990), Darrett Adkins (1993), Parke Burgess (1994), Rajan Krishnaswami (1996), Julia Kostenko (1997), Kevin Krentz (2001), Jeffrey C. Wang (2003), Elinor Frey (2004), Brian Wharton (2007), Meta Weiss (2012)

Harp

Juliete Stratton (1990)

Guitar

Hilary Field (1993), Michael Partington (1999), Michael LeFevre (2001), Luis Millan (2005)

Piano

Geisa Dutra (1985), Terry Spiller (1985), Yuka Sasaki (1986), Chi Ru Jou (1987), Monty Carter (1988), Anthony Padilla (1990), Matt Goodrich (1991), Peter Mack (1992), Sooyeon Kwon (1993), Helena Azevedo-Jordan (1994), Stef-Albert Bothma (1995), Nancy Im (1995), Sarah Chan (1996), Yuhri Hirata (1997), Alexander Tutunov (1998), Wendy Yamashita (1999), Yu-Ting Chen (2000), Dainius Vaicekonis (2000), Natalya V. Kalendarev (2002), Jeremy Samolesky (2002), Gustavo Andres Pelaez (2004), Mio Aoike (2005), Jeffrey Savage (2006), Tanya Karyagina (2007), Thomas Lee (2008), Eugenia Jeong (2009), Kay Zavislak (2010), David Brooks (2010), Rajung Yang (2011), Iejin Rhee (2012), Mayumi Tayake (2012)

Soprano

Barbara Custer (1986), Heidi Lynn Grant (1987), Michaela Gurevich (1991), Jacinta Koreski (1992), Kelley Nassief (1994), Kathleen Taylor (1996), Song Kim (1999), Karen E. Urlie (2001), Anne Carolyn Bird (2003), Cristina Villareale (2006), Holly Boaz (2007), Megan Hart (2009)

Mezzo-soprano

Melissa Plagemann (2004)

Tenor

Jeffrey Francis (1989), Kerry Jennings (1998), Samuel J. Ludwig Rodarte (2002)

Baritone/Bass-baritone

John Armstrong (1985), Philip Cutlip (1987), Keith A. Harris (1999), Charles Turley (2005)

Flute

Danielle Rangelle (1989,1991), Laurie Lake (1992), Darrin Thaves (2000), Jasmine Hedric(2001), Renée Baldridge (2008), Justin Lee (2010), Esther Fredrickson (2011)

Oboe/Oboe-English Horn

Shannon Spicciati (1997), Yuh-Pey Lin (2003), Alison Lowell (2008)

Clarinet

Megan Watson (2005), Jeffrey Brooks (2010)

Saxophone

Kimm Brockett Stammen (1995), Rhett Bender (1998), Karen Roll Gardener (2000), Dana Booher (2009)

Euphonium

Daniel Helseth (1997), Jason Gilliam (2002)

Trombone

Mark Babbitt (2004), Philip Brown (2006)

Tuba

Curtis Peacock (2011)