2025 Panelists
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| Name |
Genre |
Year | Details* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steve Coleman | Music | 2020 |
saxophonist, composer, band leader, Herb Alpert Award Artist
New York, NY - Allentown, PA |
| Tania León | Music | 2009 |
composer and conductor; distinguished professor, City University of New York
Nyack, NY |
| Gustavo Matamoros | Music | 2022 |
composer, interdisciplinary artist, founder, Subtropics Festival
Miami, FL |
| Ben Johnston | Music | 2000 |
composer, and professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Ashland, NC |
| Joshua Kosman | Music | 2008 |
critic, San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco, CA |
| Pamela Z | Music | 2023 |
composer/performer, Herb Alpert Award Artist
San Francisco, CA |
| Julia Wolfe | Music | 1999 |
composer and co-artistic director, Bang On A Can
New York |
| Tania León | Music | 2012 |
composer and conductor; distinguished professor, City University of New York
Nyack, NY |
| Annea Lockwood | Music | 2007 |
composer
Crompond, NY |
| Miya Masaoka | Music | 2020 |
composer, sound artist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, associate professor, director, Sound Art Program, Columbia University
New York |
| Courtney Bryan | Music | 2021 |
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, The Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music, Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University
New Orleans |
| Robert Ashley | Music | 2001 |
composer
New York |
| Morton Subotnick | Music | 2009 |
composer and author
New York, NY |
| Myra Melford | Music | 2022 |
pianist, composer, improvisor, professor, UC Berkeley, Herb Alpert Award winner
Berkeley, CA |
| Ursula Oppens | Music | 2000 |
pianist, professor, Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, and New York |
| Carman Moore | Music | 2008 |
composer, music director, The Skymusic Ensemble
New York, NY |
| David Wessel | Music | 2012 |
professor of music, co-director, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
| Maya Beiser | Music | 2002 |
cellist
New York |
| John Corbett | Music | 2011 |
writer, curator, adjunct associate professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL |
| Vijay Iyer | Music | 2021 |
composer-pianist, Herb Alpert Award Artist, Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, Harvard University
New York |
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