Inspired by Mary’s love of opera, the competition is now focused on voice and will be called the D’Angelo Young Artist Vocal Competition, making this the 26th year for this esteemed tradition created by Dr. and Mrs. George D’Angelo in Erie, PA.
Past winners include the following:
1977 Steven deGroote - Piano
1978 Shirley Willis-Jaron - Voice
1979 Jody Levitz - Strings
1980 Natasha Snitkovsky - Piano
1981 Susan Dunn - Voice
1982 Paul Neubauer - Strings
1983 Eduardo Halim - Piano
1984 Barbara Kilduff - Voice
1985 Sandra Park - Strings
1986 Angela Cheng - Piano
1987 CeCelia Rae Chaisson - Voice
1988 David Perry - Strings
1989 Anthony Padilla - Piano
1990 Hans Choi - Voice
1991 Kyung Sun Lee - Strings
1992 Hae Jung Kim - Piano; Peter Miyamoto - Piano; Anders Martinson - Piano
1993 Theresa Santiago - Voice; Eleni Matos - Voice
1994 Michael Ludwig - Stings
1995 Andrei Shibko - Piano
1996 Gregory Turay - Voice
1997 Lukasz Szyrner - Strings
1999 Lester Lynch - Voice
2000 Genadi Zagor - Strings
2001 Kairy Kosheova – Piano
2019 Hannah Brammer - Voice
2021 Robyn Lamp - Voice
2022 Minghao Liu - Voice