The American Prize Chicago Oratorio Awards
2017: ONE $400 performance prize for TENOR
2018: FOUR $550 performance prizes for VOCAL QUARTET
In 2017:
For TENOR: Perform the aria “Onaway! Awake, Beloved” in an important revival of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s once world-famous cantata, HIAWATHA’S WEDDING FEAST, with the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of music director Maestro David Katz, in November 2017.
For more information about the composer and this special work, please visit:
www.hiawathainchicago.blogspot.com
To hear the CBASO & Chorus in performance:
WHAT is the PRIZE:
The winner of The American Prize Chicago Oratorio Award, 2017, will be featured as vocal soloist in a performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast,” under the baton of Maestro David Katz with the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at St James Episcopal Cathedral, Wabash at Huron Streets, Chicago, on Wednesday evening November 8, 2017.
(Dress rehearsal Tuesday evening, November 7, 2017, same location.)
The winner will receive a $400 all-inclusive fee (no additional housing, travel or per diem), payment to be made on the day of the performance. Although the Chicago Oratorio Award is open to all qualified professional and college/university applicants nationwide, it is geared primarily to those who live within comfortable travel distance of Chicago and who can make their own housing arrangements.
HOW to APPLY:
Send an email expressing interest, confirming availability for the performance and rehearsal dates; include a copy of a current resume or bio, OR a link to an artist website, as well as links to online recordings of the artist in performance–either on the website itself, or via YouTube, SoundCloud or other recognized file sharing program. Send to: . There are no additional requirements.
Applications must be received not later than Saturday, September 30, 2017, but artists are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. Maestro Katz expects to make his decision during the first week of October.
MUSIC DOWNLOAD:
You can download the music to “Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast”
at no cost by following this link to the IMSLP website.
http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Song_of_Hiawatha,_Op.30_(Coleridge-Taylor,_Samuel)
2018:
In 2018: FOUR $550 performance prizes:
SOPRANO, MEZZO-SOPRANO, TENOR, BARITONE
PERFORM as a soloist in Rossini’s STABAT MATER with the Chicago Bar Association Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of music director Maestro David Katz in May 2018.
Dress rehearsal: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 6:00 pm at St James Episcopal Cathedral, Chicago
Performance: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 at 7:30 pm, same location
This is an ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT only.
We will not be accepting applications for Rossini soloists until Chicago Oratorio Award information is updated on The American Prize website later this fall. We will post again when that information is available.
2017 SEMI-FINALISTS:
We expect to announce 2017 semi-finalists for The American Prize in Vocal Performance Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards starting mid-month (September.)
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