Congratulations to oboist Kristin Leitterman (DMA 2017), who was a named the second-place winner of the 2024 American Prize in Instrumental Performance! 

See below for more details about Dr. Leitterman, as well as The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts:

Dr. Kristin Leitterman, as a solo artist of oboe and voice, defies modern convention, bringing exciting and unusual programs to audiences.  She has performed compositions employing both oboe and voice that she commissioned from Michael-Thomas Foumai, Whitney George, and Lyle Davidson in major concert venues around the world and throughout the United States.  As Assistant Professor of Oboe at Arkansas State University, Leitterman teaches oboe and bassoon and double reed techniques and coaches chamber ensembles. For many years she has served as director of the Lucarelli Oboe Master Class, a weeklong oboe workshop founded by Humbert Lucarelli. She has presented her research on several composers at numerous conferences and schools both nationally and internationally. She holds degrees from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, the Hartt School, New England Conservatory, and the University of Missouri­–Kansas City Conservatory. Her teachers include Humbert Lucarelli, Mark McEwen, Barbara Bishop. www.kristinleitterman.com

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings. Now in its thirteenth year, The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation.

https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2024/10/national-winners-instrumental.html

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