PARTNERS for the Arts, Inc.
PARTNERS for the Arts, Inc. encourages and promotes singers for professional careers through awards competitions, concerts, partnerships, and musical and educational events.
PARTNERS dedicates its 10th Anniversary Celebration in loving memory of
Audrey Pendergast
Awards:
First Prize – $10,000; Second – $5,000; Third – $2,500;
Audience Prize – $1,000 – Judges Special Award – $1,000;
All Finalists $500
We are pleased to present the winners of PARTNERS for the Arts
10th National Opera Competition

First Prize
Magdalena Kužma – soprano

2nd Prize and Audience Choice.
Donghoon Kang – bass-baritone

3rd Prize
Amanda Simms – soprano

Judges Special Award
Ashlyn Rock – soprano
Donors Make a Difference
Our most sincere thank you to:
Alan Savada and Will Stevenson – 2nd prize in honor of their son, Samuel J. Savada-Stevenson, Drs. James and Wanda Trefil – 3rd prize in Honor of Sylvia Trefil Mestek, Dr. Bob Misbin – The Audience Prize Award, Ms. Cynthia Bianchi in memory of Holly Bianchi and Dr. William Panici each sponsoring a Finalist Award, and Victoria Tresansky, who covered all the other finalists’ Awards. And all the other donors who made it possible for us this year to give over $22,000 in prizes.
Trinity Chamber Orchestra
Twenty-Forth Season
and PARTNERS for the Arts
Tenth Anniversary Year
Present
“Some Enchanted Evening Music”
with the Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein
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.And
PARTNERS For The Arts Musicale in Collaboration With The Bulgarian Music Society
Accompanist Frank Conlon, soprano Ashley Larkin, tenor Israel Lozano, with the youngest member of the audience who was mesmerized by the performances, mezzo-soprano Margerita Yefimenko, baritone Geoffrey DiGiorgio, and BMS director Dr. Ivo Kaltchev.