2025 Jury
Michelle Cann
Christel DeHaan Artistic Partner of the 2025 American Pianists Awards and Eleanor Sokoloff Chair in Piano Studies at Curtis Institute of Music
Stephen Beus *
2006 American Pianists Awards winner, Steinway Artist & professor at Brigham Young University
Jane Coop *
Steinway Artist; retired from University of British Columbia School of Music
Carol Leone *
pianist & Chair of Piano Studies at SMU Meadows School of the Arts
Marina Lomazov
pianist & Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina
Tito Muñoz
conductor & Virginia G. Piper Music Director of The Phoenix Symphony
Awadagin Pratt
pianist, conductor & Professor of Piano at the San Francisco Conservatory
Roberta Rust
pianist & head of the piano department at Lynn University Conservatory of Music
Pierre van der Westhuizen *
Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore International Piano Festival
Jack Winerock *
pianist & retired Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas School of Music
* served on the Preliminary Jury