SOLO COMPETITION NEWS
Elijah McCormack - 2023 Second Place Winner - was named New Artist of the Month in June by Musical America.
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Past solo competition winners Joshua Blue and Dashon Burton are featured on the Oratorio Society's new recording of Sanctuary Road, by Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell. Released on January 10, 2020 on the Naxos label, the album placed in the top 10 on the Classical Billboard chart in its first week of release and was nominated for a 2021 Grammy award in the Best Choral Performance category. (Click here to Buy the CD.)
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Congratulations to Dashon Burton (1st Prize, 2012) for winning the 2021 Grammy Award in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category for SMYTH: THE PRISON-WINNER..
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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2024
Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition
Sara Lauren LeMesh, soprano - First Place (Robert E. Ludwig Award)
Morgan Fox Mastrangelo, tenor - Second Place (Meyerson/Zwanger Award)
Andrew Bearden Brown, tenor - Third Place (Janet Plucknett Award)
Leo Radosavljevic, bass-baritone - Esther Korshin Award
Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano - Betty Brummett Award
Sandy Sharis, mezzo-soprano - William Grogan Award
Marie Noël Marquis, soprano - Robert & Winifred Connelly Green Award
Juliet Ariadne Papadopoulos, soprano - Leopold O. Damrosch Award
Visit the concert page for photos.
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