New York, February 27, 2023 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announces the 16 recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $195,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: Julia Wolfe (chair), Annea Lockwood, David Sanford, Christopher Theofanidis, Augusta Read Thomas, Chinary Ung, and Melinda Wagner. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s Ceremonial on May 24, 2023. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 300 members of the Academy.
Arts and Letters Awards in Music
EVE BEGLARIAN
DAVID LUDWIG
NICOLE MITCHELL
ROSCOE MITCHELL
Four composers will receive $10,000 Arts and Letters Awards in Music, which honor outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledge composers who have arrived at their own voice. They will each receive an additional $10,000 to record their work and will have their music presented in concert at the Academy.
Walter Hinrichsen Award in Music
SHIH-HUI CHEN
This award was established by the C. F. Peters Corporation, music publishers, in 1984, and is given for the publication of a work by a gifted composer.
Andrew Imbrie Award in Music
ROBERT HONSTEIN
The Andrew Imbrie Award of $10,000 is given to a composer of demonstrated artistic merit in mid-career.
Charles Ives Awards in Music
Charles Ives Fellowships
CHARLES PECK
PETER SHIN
Charles Ives Scholarships
SEARE FARHAT
JORDYN GALLINEK
LUKE HAAKSMA
ALI CAN PUSKULCU
HARRIET STEINKE
BETHANY YOUNGE
Harmony Ives, the widow of Charles Ives, bequeathed to the Academy the royalties of Charles Ives’s music, which has enabled the Academy to give awards in composition since 1970. The Charles Ives Fellowships are $15,000 each and the Charles Ives Scholarships are $7,500 each.
Goddard Lieberson Fellowships in Music
ANDY AKIHO
ZOSHA DI CASTRI
Two Goddard Lieberson Fellowships of $15,000 each, endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, are given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts.
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers. Early members include William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Edward MacDowell, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton. The Academy’s 300 members are elected for life and pay no dues.
In addition to electing new members as vacancies occur, the Academy seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts by administering over 70 awards and prizes totaling more than $1 million, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theater, purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country, and presenting talks and concerts.