Career Assistance Awards

2021 Awardees

Nathaniel Efthimiou

Founding Music Director of Orchestra Contempo, Assistant Conductor of Boston Civic Symphony, and Cover Conductor of Rhode Island Philharmonic. Read more…

Kevin Fitzgerald

Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra. Read more…

Taichi Fukumura

Founding Music Director of the Accompanietta Orchestra, Director of Orchestras at Merit School of Music, and Cover Conductor for the Chicago Philharmonic. Read more…

Lina Gonzalez-Granados

Conducting Fellow with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Seattle Symphony; Recipient of the 2021 Sphinx Medal of Excellence. Read more…

Keitaro Harada

Music and Artistic Director of the Savannah Philharmonic and Associate Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Jonathon Heyward

Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and former Assistant Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. Read more…

Roberto Kalb

Former resident conductor and head of music at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and cover/assistant conductor for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Roger Kalia

Music Director, Evansville Symphony Orchestra and Symphony NH; Music Director and co-founder, Lake George Music Festival. Read more…

Earl Lee

Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Former Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Lee Mills

Associate Conductor or the Seattle Symphony and former Resident Conductor of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Vinay Parameswaran

Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Read more…

Michael Repper

Music Director of the New York Youth Symphony and Northern Neck Orchestra of Virginia. Read more…

Stefano Sarzani

International guest conductor. Musical staff, Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2018. Read more…

Kensho Watanabe

International guest conductor. Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2016 to 2019 Read more…

Lidiya Yankovskaya

Founder and Artistic Director of the Refugee Orchestra Project; Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater. Read more…

Tiffany Chang

Visiting Assistant Professor of Conducting, artist faculty, Oberlin Conservatory and Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music. Read more…

Holly Choe

Music Director, Orchesterverein Wiedikon, Music Director, University of St. Gallen Alumni Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Maurice Cohn

Music Director, New Horizons Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Conner Gray Covington

Associate Conductor, Utah Symphony and Principal Conductor, Deer Valley Music Festival. Read more…

Andrew Crust

Associate Conductor, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Joshua Hong

Music Director, Campanile Orchestra. Read more…

Jacob Joyce

Associate Conductor, Indianapolis Symphony. Read more…

Matthew Kasper

Resident Conductor, The Phoenix Symphony and Artistic Director, Phoenix Youth Symphony. Read more…

Stephen Mulligan

Associate Conductor, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Music Director, Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Read more…

Gemma New

Winner of the 2021 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Benjamin Manis

Appointed Resident Conductor of the Houston Grand Opera beginning September 2019Read more…

Stephanie Rhodes Russell

International guest conductor. Musical staff, Lyric Opera of Chicago since 2018. Read more…

Daniel Black

AssociateConductor of the Florida Orchestra, 2019-20 season. Read more…

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Director, University of Texas Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Sameer Patel

Associate Conductor of the Sun Valley Music Festival and former Associate Conductor of the San Diego Symphony. Read more…

Roderick Cox

Winner of the 2018 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Christopher Allen

Winner of the 2017 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Ankush Kumar Bahl

Music Director Designate of the Omaha Symphony, summer of 2021. Read more…

Gene Chang

Assistant and Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 2015 to 2019. Read more…

Yaniv Dinur

Winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Joshua Gersen

Former Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Read more…

Michelle Merrill

Music Director of the Coastal Symphony of Georgia and former Associate Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Kazem Abdullah

Music and Artistic Director of the City of Aachen, Germany from 2012 to 2017. Read more…

Karina Canellakis

Winner of the 2016 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Yuga Cohler

Music director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Nicolas Hersh

Associate Conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Joseph Young

Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony. Read more…

Yaniv Attar

Music Director, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra and Bellingham Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Vladimir Kulenovic

Winner of the 2015 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award.Read more…

Shizuo Z. Kuwahara

Principal guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre, Primorsky Stage. Read more…

Christopher James Lees

Resident Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony since 2018. Read more…

Francesco Lecce-Chong

Music Director, Eugene Symphony and Santa Rosa Symphony. Read more…

Joshua Weilerstein

Artistic Director of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Read more…

Sean Newhouse

Former Associate Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Read more…

Ward Stare

Music Director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra since 2014. Read more…

James Feddeck

Winner of the 2013 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Kelly Kuo

Artistic Director of Oregon Mozart Players and resident pianist for the Zenith Chamber Music Festival. Read more…

Case Scaglione

Winner of the 2011 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award. Read more…

Sarah Jobin

Artistic Director of the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York. Read more…