Congratulations to these ACDA members who have been recognized with a 2024 American Prize Award.
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 fourteenth 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. (http://theamericanprize.org).
To learn more about these winners, visit https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/?m=1.
| Mariana Farah | The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Larger Program |
| Xiaosha Lin | The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Smaller Program |
| Phillip Streetman | The American Prize in Choral Performance | High School Chorus Division |
| Wendy Moy and Jeremiah Selvey | The American Prize in Choral Performance | Professional Division |
| Robyn Lana | The American Prize in Choral Performance | Youth Choir Division |
| Jeffrey Bernstein | The American Prize in Choral Performance (Co-Winner) | Community Division |
| Nicole Lamartine | The American Prize in Choral Performance (Co-Winner) | Community Division |
| Carlos B Brown | The Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting | College Division |
| Alex Canovas | The Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting | Community Division |
| Rose Hellmers | The Dale Warland Award in Choral Conducting | High School Division |
| Francis Cathlina | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Larger Program |
| Irene Messoloras | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Smaller Program |
| Dwight Bigler | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Community Division |
| Kendra Fisher | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | High School Chorus Division |
| Christopher Mason | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Professional Division |
| Joel Duarte | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Youth Choir Division |
| Christina Rusnak | 2nd Place – The American Prize in Composition | Orchestra, professional division |
| Benjamin Bergey | 2nd Place- The Dale Warland Award (Co-Winner) | College Division |
| Katherine Chan | 2nd Place- The Dale Warland Award (Co-Winner) | College Division |
| Nancy Menk | 2nd Place- The Dale Warland Award | Community Division |
| Adrian Kirtley | 2nd Place- The Dale Warland Award | High School Division |
| Vernon Huff | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Larger Program |
| Robyn Lana | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | College Division – Smaller Program |
| Nancy Menk | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Community Division |
| Zebulon Highben | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Community Division |
| Rose Hellmers | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | High School Chorus Division |
| Heather Orr | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | High School Chorus Division |
| Darren Dailey | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Professional Division |
| Roberta Jackson & Debra Burgess | 3rd Place – The American Prize in Choral Performance | Youth Choir Division |
| John Stafford | 3rd Place – The Dale Warland Award | College Division |
| Virgil Bozeman | 3rd Place – The Dale Warland Award | Community Division |
| Yeeyan Michelle Kwok | 3rd Place – The Dale Warland Award | Community Division |
| Darren Dailey | 3rd Place – The Dale Warland Award | High School Division |
| Michael McKenzie | Honorable Mention | College Division |
| Christopher L. Clark | Honorable Mention | College Division – Smaller Program |
| Alex Canovas | Honorable Mention | Community Division |
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