Judges

Originally from Seattle, WA, Dr. Moss earned her Bachelors’ degrees in music and music education at the University of Washington, studying conducting with Timothy Salzman and bassoon performance with Arthur Grossman. She taught middle school band and private bassoon lessons in Chandler, AZ and Seattle, WA for six years where her bands received honors and awards from regional and state…

Igor Bukhvalov’s in-depth knowledge of tradition and the established canons of music in addition to his unconventional interpretation of many well-known works have led him to create a variety of extraordinary performances with the New York Chamber Virtuosi, the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Berlin,the American Opera Theatre, the Belarusian State Bolshoi Theater, the Belarusian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lithuanian State Symphonic Orchestra,…

One of the most dynamic conductors of his generation, Marlon DANIEL has been described as “a natural and enormous talent” (Chicago Sun-Times) and his artistry has been hailed as “fabulous and exceptional” (Pravda – Moscow). Winner of the 2014 John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Conducting Award, he has performed in some of the most prestigious venues in Europe and the…

Mr. Korf has drawn inspiration from a remarkable array of composers and musical idioms, though these influences are seldom detectable in his music. His life-long passion for jazz and popular music, for example, lends an unmistakably American flavor to his work, though only rarely does their vernacular pedigree surface. As early as Mr. Korf’s Symphony No. 2 “Blue Note,” from…

Mr. Xiang moved to the USA in 2014, and that July made his American Operatic debut as Alfredo in Verdi’s La Traviata in Martina Arroyo’s Young Artist Prelude Development Program in New York City. That fall he began his studies at New York’s prestigious Manhattan School of Music, where he was under the tutelage of Joan Patenaude-Yarnell and Marlena Malas.…