The Gilmore Artist Award is awarded every four years to a concert pianist. The award was established in 1989 by The Gilmore of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In contrast with other music awards, nominees are not aware that they are under consideration, but are assessed discreetly over a period of time through live performances and recordings. The prize money is $300,000, of which $50,000 to be spent as the winner desires and $250,000 to be used for career development.[1] [2]
Every two years, the Gilmore Young Artist Award is presented to promising pianists below age 23. An anonymous selection committee receives and evaluates nominations by music professionals from around the world. As with the Gilmore Artist Award, the nominees are not aware that they are being considered. Awardees receive a $15,000 stipend and another $10,000 to commission an original piano composition that they will have the exclusive right to perform for one year.[7]
The award was first granted in 1991. 38 pianists have received a Gilmore Young Artists Award.
| Year | Recipients | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Wendy Chen | Brenda Huang | Peter Miyamoto | Christopher Taylor | |
| 1994 | Soojin Ahn | Anders Martinson | Andrea Schneider | ||
| 1996 | Andrew Armstrong | Katherine K. Lee | Adam Neiman | Alex Slobodyanik | |
| 1998 | Hsing-ay Hsu | Brenda Jones | |||
| 2000 | Orion Weiss | ||||
| 2002 | Kirill Gerstein | ||||
| 2004 | Christopher Falzone | Elizabeth Schumann | |||
| 2006 | Yuja Wang | ||||
| 2008 | Adam Golka | Rachel Naomi Kudo | |||
| 2010 | Ivan Moshchuk | ||||
| 2012 | Conrad Tao | ||||
| 2014 | Andrew Hsu | Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner | |||
| 2016 | Micah McLaurin | ||||
| 2018 | Wei Luo | Elliot Wuu | |||
| 2020 | Misha Galant | Maxim Lando | |||
| 2022 | Janice Carissa | Clayton Stephenson | |||
| 2024 | Kasey Shao | Harmony Zhu | |||