Classical Awards Advisory Committee

The Gilmore Artist Award and Gilmore Young Artist Award recipients are chosen by an anonymous Classical Awards Advisory Committee appointed every four years by the Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore. Recent Committees have included the following individuals, whose identities are revealed after the Awards have been announced. The Gilmore is very grateful for their efforts.

2024 Gilmore Artist; 2022 and 2024 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Elizabeth Ostrow, Committee Chair – Artistic planning consultant and recording producer
  • Wolfgang Fink – consultant, lecturer, and author, former Intendant at the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, and senior leadership roles at the Strasbourg Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony Orchestras
  • Gary Hanson – Former Executive Director of the Cleveland Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra
  • Kathy Shuman – Vice President and Artistic Director, Caramoor Center for Music and Arts
  • Paul Schenly – Artistic Director and Founder of PianoFest in the Hamptons, Artistic Director of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, and formerly Chair of Piano Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music
  • Howard Watkins – Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, faculty at The Julliard School

2018 Gilmore Artist; 2018 and 2020 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Numa Bischof Ullmann – Artistic and Executive Director, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
  • David Baldwin – Artistic and Executive Director, Fontana Chamber Arts
  • Christopher Roberts – President and CEO, Robisong Consultants
  • Barry Kempton – Artistic and Executive Director, Schubert Club
  • Elizabeth Ostrow – Artistic planning consultant and recording producer

2014 Gilmore Artist; 2014 and 2016 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Numa Bischof Ullmann – Artistic and Executive Director, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
  • Anthony Fogg – Artistic Administrator, Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Christopher Roberts – President and CEO, Robisong Consultants
  • Judith Sherman – Recording Producer and Engineer
  • Sherman Van Solkema – Musicologist and Professor/Administrator (retired)

2010 Gilmore Artist; 2010 and 2012 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Curtis Price – President of New College, Oxford University
  • Don Michael Randel – President of Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (retired)
  • Ann Schein – Concert pianist and Aspen Music Festival Faculty member
  • Matias Tarnopolsky – Director of Cal Performances, Berkeley
  • Sherman Van Solkema – Musicologist and Professor/Administrator (retired)

2006 Gilmore Artist; 2006 and 2008 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Nancy Bell Coe – President of Music Academy of the West (retired)
  • Ara Guzelimian – Dean of Students, The Juilliard School
  • Charles Hamlen – Vice President for Artists & Programs, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, NYC
  • Gilbert Kalish – Concert pianist; Professor and Head of Performance Activities at State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Curtis Price – President of New College, Oxford University

2002 Gilmore Artist; 2002 and 2004 Gilmore Young Artists

  • Gilbert Kalish – Concert pianist; Professor and Head of Performance Activities at State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Welz Kauffman – President and CEO of Ravinia Festival
  • Evans Mirageas – Artistic and Strategic Planning Adviser for the classical music industry
  • Richard Ortner – President of Boston Conservatory
  • Irma Vallecillo – Concert pianist; Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut

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