Past Award Winners
Competition Programs
The below contains programs for those Dolven Award competitions in which we have an on-line copy of the program. Please note that the programs are composed several days in advance of the competition. They do not reflect last minute cancellations or song changes. In particular, not every singer listed actually performed in the given competition.
| Year | Actual # of competitors | Program | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novice | Intermediate | Advanced | Total | ||
| 2024 | Not Available | ||||
| Due to the COVID pandemic the Dolven Award competition was not held from 2020 through 2023. | |||||
| 2019 | Not Available | ||||
| 2018 | Not Available | ||||
| 2017 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 2017 Program |
| 2016 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 2016 Program |
| 2015 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 2015 Program |
| 2014 | 9* | 5* | 3 | 17 | 2014 Program |
| * Due to an error in the program, Willow Lautenberg was judged in the Intermediate division when she should have been placed in the Novice division. | |||||
| 2013 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 2013 Program |
| 2012 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 2012 Program |
| 2011 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 19 | 2011 Program |
Award Winners
The Dolven award competition has been held since 1974. Unfortunately, no formal records were kept of the winners of these awards until 2009 and after. The table below holds only those winners for which we have definite knowledge of their award.
| Award | Winner | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | |||
| Novice | Keya Mehta | ||
| Intermediate | Anthony P. Mucci | ||
| Advanced | Andrea Bickford | ||
| Misenhimer | Lauren Nash Silberstein | ||
| Due to the COVID pandemic, the competitions were not held from 2020 through 2023. | |||
| 2019 | |||
| Novice | Maggy Seebode | ||
| Intermediate | Rebecca Farrell | ||
| Misenheimer | Zachary Simpson | ||
| 2018 | |||
| Novice | Nicholas Contois | ||
| Intermediate | Lauren Nash Silberstein | ||
| Advanced | Joshua Gurwitz | ||
| Misenheimer | Francesca Primeggia | ||
| 2017 | |||
| Award | Winner | Teacher | |
| Recital Song | Composer | ||
| Novice | Marissa Scotti | Corine Salon & Rae Jean Teeter | |
| Widmung | Robert Schumann | ||
| Laurie's Song | Aaron Copland | ||
| Intermediate | Monica Enright | Susan Boddie | |
| Si mes vers avaient des ailes | Reynaldo Hahn | ||
| Chi sà, chi sà, qual sia | W. A. Mozart | ||
| Advanced | Savannah Gordon | Frances Wittman | |
| Deh vieni non tardar | W. A. Mozart | ||
| Er, der Herrlichste von Allen | Robert Schumann | ||
| 2016 | |||
| Novice | Marissa Scotti | Corine Salon | |
| De los álamos vengo, madre | Joaquìn Rodrigo | ||
| In the Silence of the Night | Sergei Rachmaninoff | ||
| Intermediate | Monica Enright | Lucille Beer | |
| Una voce poco fa | Gioachino Rossini | ||
| A Lucky Child | Jake Heggie | ||
| Advanced | Rocky Sellers | Jason Stearns & Mark Oswald | |
| Ol' Man River | Kerns & Hammerstein | ||
| La calunnia | Gioachino Rossini | ||
| Misenhimer | Alec Hicks | Susan Harwood | |
| Ch'io mai vi possa | G. F. Handel | ||
| Waldesgespräch | Robert Schumann | ||
| 2015 | |||
| Due to technical problems, videos are not available for the 2015 winners. | |||
| Intermediate | Claire Haile | Lucille Beer | |
| Nocturne | César Franck | ||
| Thought from The Tender Land | |||
| Advanced | Joushua Bouillon | Robert Swensen | |
| Sure on this Shining Night | Samuel Barber | ||
| Che gelida manina from La bohème | Giacomo Puccini | ||
| Misenhimer | Zoe Lynds | Christina Pizzino-Catalano | |
| Pietà, Signore! | Alessandro Stradella | ||
| Misty | Erroll Garner | ||
| 2014 | |||
| Novice | Annaleigh Lester | Corine Salon | |
| Star Vicina | Salvator Rosa | ||
| Take, O Take Those Lips | Amy Beach | ||
| Intermediate | Elizabeth Tapia | Susan Harwood | |
| Oh! Quand Je Dors | Franz Liszt | ||
| Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from La Wally | Alfredo Catalani | ||
| Advanced | Tess Torreggiani | Lucille Beer | |
| Piangero, la sorte mia from Giulio Cesare | G. F. Handel | ||
| If Music Be the Food of Love | Henry Purcell | ||
| Misenhimer | Willow Lautenberg | Eric Nelsen | |
| The Black Swan from The Medium | Giancarlo Menotti | ||
| Waiting for Life from Once on this Island | Stephen Flaherty | ||
| 2013 | |||
| Novice | Lauren Silberstein | Heather Baird, Diane Warner | |
| Gretchen am Spinnrade | Franz Schubert | ||
| Tell Me, O Blue, Blue Sky | Vittorio Giannini | ||
| Intermediate | Genevieve Diller | Heidi Skok | |
| Bel Piacere | G.F. Handel | ||
| St. Ita's Vision | Samuel Barber | ||
| Advanced | Terressa Mannix | Heidi Skok | |
| Wie Du warst! | Richard Strauss | ||
| Voi che sapete | W.A. Mozart | ||
| Misenhimer | Stephen Smith | Julie Newell | |
| Were'er you walk | G.F. Handel | ||
| Serenata Gitana | Miguel Sandoval | ||
| 2012 | |||
| Novice | Rebecca Rogers | Nancy Jo Davidsen | |
| Deh, Contentatevi | Giacomo Carissimi | ||
| For You There is No Song | Leslie Adams | ||
| Intermediate | Lindsay McCandless | Susan Harwood | |
| Care Selve | G. F. Handel | ||
| Love Went A-Riding | Frank Bridge | ||
| Misenhimer | Jack Mallory | Anne Turner | |
| Un'aura amorosa | W.A. Mozart | ||
| Meine Leider | Johannes Brahms | ||
| 2011 | |||
| Novice | Andrea McGaugh | Anne Turner | |
| Verborgenheit | Hugo Wolf | ||
| Spring | Dominick Argento | ||
| Intermediate | Bryce Klatsky | Anne Turner | |
| Non più andrai | W.A. Mozart | ||
| Der Lindenbaum | Franz Schubert | ||
| Advanced | Laura Mitchell | Barbara Hohn | |
| Regnava nel silenzio | Gaetano Donizetti | ||
| Allerseelen | Richard Strauss | ||
| 2010 | |||
| Novice | John Leighton | ||
| Advanced | Kara Cornell | ||
| Misenhimer | Andy Truax | ||
| 2009 | |||
| Novice | Ava Wing | ||
| Intermediate | Katharine Schimmer | ||
| Advanced | Vedrana Kalas | ||
| Misenhimer | Patrick Cook | ||