Concert Artists Guild


The Concert Artists Guild is an American musical institution, based in New York City and established in 1951. It is dedicated to discovering and nurturing musical talent, and helping musicians start careers. It provides scholarships and grants, and also runs the CAG Records label.
According to organizer Richard Weinert, "We begin with 350 musicians of any type or sort—vocalists, duos, instrumentalists, worldwide—whittle them down until 12 finalists remain, and from those, usually three or four are selected who have the combination of training, talent, and that extra pizzazz that is needed to have a successful concert career." The three or four winners are then managed for several years, mentoring them in becoming successful concert musicians.
Hedge fund manager and philanthropist Roy Niederhoffer has served as Chairman of the Concert Artists Guild.

Winners

Winners of the Concert Artists Guild:

1950s

1951
  • Pasquale Verduce
  • Rosalie Adragna
  • Richard Leshin
  • Frank Matori
  • Angela Pistelli
  • Sandra Propp
  • Yvette Rudin
  • Vincent Speranda
  • Barbara Berkman
  • Osias Wilensky
  • Elizabeth Devlin
  • Laurence Watson
  • Robin Allardice
  • Ira Shur
  • Helen Rice
  • Samuel Sanders
  • Roger Kamien
  • Alan Grishman
  • Nathan Goldstein
  • Harriet Emerson
  • Kenneth Chertok
  • Ruth Brall
  • Anita Katchen
  • Sally Allen
  • Thaddeus Brys
1952
  • Louis F. Simon
  • Militades Siadimas
  • Robert Natkoff
  • Dina Soresi
  • Virginia-Gene Shankel
  • Helen Spina
  • Leah Mellman
  • Shirley Bardin
  • Joseph Plon
  • Harry Wimmer
  • Ara Charles Adrian
  • Catalina Zandueta
  • Mary-Louise Brown
  • Charlotte Bloecher
  • Olanda Drewery
  • Byron Goode
  • Eleanor Mandel
  • Esther Fernandez
  • Andrew Frierson
  • Valerie Lamoree
  • Gabriel Banat
  • Daniel Abrams
  • Allen Rogers
1953
  • Oliver Colbentson
  • David Wells
  • Beverly Somach
  • Dorothy Phillips
  • Stephen Manes
  • Ruth Lakeway
  • Uzi Wiesel
  • Leonor Umstead
  • Muriel Kilby
  • William de Valentine
  • Paul Gurevich
  • Barbara Allen
  • Arabella Hong
  • Robert Hearn
  • Ellen Alexander
  • Stanley Babin
  • Allen Brown
  • Christina C. Cardillo
  • Norma Ferris
  • Leyna Gabriele
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
  • Howard Lebow
  • Victoria Markowski
  • Hugh Matheny
  • Raymond Michalski
  • Mayne Miller
  • Lois Carole Pachucki
  • Judith Basch
  • Frank Cedrone
  • Margaret Kalil
  • Agustin Anievas
  • Joy Pottle
  • Judith Raskin
  • Harold Johnson
  • Ramon Gilbert
  • Georgia Davis
  • Herbert Chatzky
  • Howard Aibel
1959
1960
  • Ronald Rogers
  • Albertine Baumgartner
  • Naomi Weiss
  • Catherine Wallace
  • Ilana Vered
  • George Shirley
  • Michael Rogers
  • Laurel Miller
  • Charles Haupt
  • Joanne Cohen
  • Mark Chalat
  • Arline Billings
  • Charles Wendt
  • Carol Wilder
  • Patricia MacDonald
1961
  • Marcia Heller
  • Miguel Pinto
  • Thomas Vasiloff
  • Maria Luisa Lopez-Vito
  • David Rosenstein
  • Malka Silberberg
  • Gene Boucher
  • Harriet Lawyer
  • Vera Graf
  • Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Edgar Fischer
  • Jesse Levine
  • Alpha Brawner
  • Rama Jucker
  • Edward Zolas
  • Jerome Rose
1962
  • Bonnie Bogle
  • Evangelin Marko
  • Wanda Maximilien
  • Donna Precht
  • James Stafford
  • Donald Walker
  • Marie Traficante
  • David Kaiserman
  • Madeline Stevenson
  • Masako Fujii
  • Sanford Margolis
  • Alexandra Hunt
  • Alan Finell
  • Marilyn Dubow
  • Daniel Domb
  • Isabel Berg
  • Ernest Chang
1963
  • Edward Aldwell
  • Jamesetta Holliman
  • Evelyn Watson
  • William Steck
  • Neal O’Doan
  • Helen Merritt
  • Jung-Ja Kim
  • David Yeomans
  • Leonidas Lipovetsky
  • Mary Beck
  • Margaret Kalil
  • Nina Kaleska
  • Nan Gullo
  • Lee Dougherty
  • Verica Fassel
  • Janet Goodman
  • Grace DiBattista
  • Glenn Jacobson
1964
  • William Greene
  • Jean Kraft
  • Constance Douglass
  • Sheila Schonbrun
  • Takako Nishizaki
  • Louis Nagel
  • Nancy Wyner
  • Richard Syracuse
  • Winifred Dettore
  • Findlay Cockrell
  • William Cheadle
  • Matitiahu Braun
  • Shirley Love
  • Fernando Illanes
  • Stephen Flamberg
1965
  • Phyllis Mailing
  • Mertine Johns
  • Karen Shaw
  • John Large
  • Roe Van Boskirk
  • Clyde Tipton
  • Joan Summers
  • Sheldon Shkolnik
  • Ruth McCoy Gatto
  • David Garlock
  • Richard Allen
  • Judith Allen
  • Sylvia Chambless Patrick
  • Robert Preston
  • Ruth Glasser
  • James Stroud
1966
  • LaVergne Monette
  • Lanoue Davenport
  • Almita Hyman-Vamos
  • Gisela Depkat
  • Eleanor Edwards
  • Ellen Hassman
  • Virginia Marks
  • Jerome Rosen
  • Grayson Hirst
  • Ronald Roseman
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
  • Lois Shapiro
  • Michael Thomopoulos
  • Quintet Di Legno
  • Karen Buranskas
  • Daisietta Kim
  • Chang/Kogan Duo
  • Franck Avril
  • William Hoyt
1978
1979
  • Tyra Gilb
  • David Jolley
  • Sioned Williams
  • Marie Laferriere
  • Martha Hartman Whitmore
  • Regina Mushabac
  • Janus Ensemble

    1980s

1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
  • Carl Kleinsteuber
  • Bowdoin Trio
  • Douglas Wm. Walter
  • Carol Smith
  • Steven Jordheim
  • Neil Rutman
  • Joseph Lulloff
1985
1986
1987
1988
  • Alan Chow
  • Rorianne Schrade
  • Carol Meyer
  • The Block Ensemble
1989