Jury

2025 Jury

Michelle Cann

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 *

Stephen Beus *

2006 American Pianists Awards winner, Steinway Artist & professor at Brigham Young University
Jane Coop *

Jane Coop *

Steinway Artist; retired from University of British Columbia School of Music
Carol Leone *

Carol Leone *

pianist & Chair of Piano Studies at SMU Meadows School of the Arts
Marina Lomazov

Marina Lomazov

pianist & Ira McKissick Koger Professor of Piano at the University of South Carolina
Tito Muñoz

Tito Muñoz

conductor & Virginia G. Piper Music Director of The Phoenix Symphony
Awadagin Pratt

Awadagin Pratt

pianist, conductor & Professor of Piano at the San Francisco Conservatory
Roberta Rust

Roberta Rust

pianist & head of the piano department at Lynn University Conservatory of Music
Pierre van der Westhuizen *

Pierre van der Westhuizen *

Executive and Artistic Director of The Gilmore International Piano Festival
Jack Winerock *

Jack Winerock *

pianist & retired Professor of Piano at the University of Kansas School of Music

 

* served on the Preliminary Jury

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