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The Charles Ives Awards are scholarships for young composers, awarded annually by the American Academy of Arts and Letters: six scholarships of $7,500, and two fellowships of $15,000. In 1998, the Academy inaugurated the Charles Ives Living, a 2-year, $200,000 award, and in 2008 awarded the inaugural Charles Ives Opera Prize of $50,000. [1]
| Year | Winner | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Joseph C. Schwantner [2] | |
| John Kirkpatrick | ||
| 1971 | Louis Smith Weingarden | |
| Vivian Perlis | ||
| 1972 | Michael Seyfrit | |
| Robert J. Krupnick | ||
| Thomas Janson | ||
| Harold Farberman | ||
| 1973 | Peter Lieberson | |
| Robert Gerster | ||
| Charles Ives Society | ||
| Philip Caldwell Carlsen | ||
| 1974 | Ira Taxin | |
| Allen Shearer | ||
| Paul Alan Levi | ||
| 1975 | Yale University Music Library | |
| David Koblitz | ||
| Stephen Chatman | ||
| Chester Biscardi | ||
| 1976 | Bruce Saylor | |
| William Matthews | ||
| Robert E. Martin | ||
| Tod Machover | ||
| Joseph A. Hudson | ||
| Michael Eckert | ||
| 1977 | Maurice Wright | |
| John Anthony Lennon | ||
| Matthias Kriesberg | ||
| John Halvor Benson | ||
| Larry Thomas Bell | ||
| Gregory Ballard | ||
| 1978 | David Olan | |
| Thomas Mountain | ||
| Arthur W. Gottschalk | ||
| Lee Scott Goldstein | ||
| Justin Dello Joio | ||
| Daniel Brewbaker | ||
| 1979 | Tobias Picker | |
| David B. Goodman | ||
| Carl Brenner | ||
| Marilyn S. Bliss | ||
| Susan Blaustein | ||
| Robert Beaser | ||
| 1980 | George Tsontakis | |
| Mario J. Pelusi | ||
| William Maiben | ||
| Lowell Lieberman | ||
| Laura Clayton | ||
| Thomas E. Barker | ||
| 1981 | Daniel C. Warner | |
| Russell F. Pinkston | ||
| William Neil | ||
| Thomas Allen LeVines | ||
| Allen Gimbel | ||
| Tamar Diesendruck | ||
| 1982 | Karen P. Thomas | |
| Karen P. Thomas | ||
| Preston Stahly, Jr. | ||
| Charles E. Porter | ||
| Jeffrey Hall | ||
| Peter Golub | ||
| 1983 | John T. Sackett | |
| Daron Aric Hagen | ||
| David Froom | ||
| Richard Danielpour | ||
| 1984 | Gregory Youtz | |
| Nicholas C.K. Thorne | ||
| Larry Stukenholtz | ||
| Bright Sheng | ||
| Laura Karpman | ||
| Kenneth Fuchs | ||
| Richard Campanelli | ||
| 1985 | Michael Torke | |
| Robert Steven Rouse | ||
| James Primosch | ||
| Thomas Oboe Lee | ||
| Paul D. Kozel | ||
| Glen Cortese | ||
| William E. Coble | ||
| 1986 | Frank Ticheli | |
| Vincent Paul Moravec | ||
| Martin M. Matalon | ||
| James Legg | ||
| Robert Kyr | ||
| Eric David Chasalow | ||
| 1987 | Randall Woolf | |
| Russell F. Pinkston | ||
| Gary Philo | ||
| Christopher Lewis James | ||
| David Karl Gompper | ||
| Sebastian Currier | ||
| Mark Barenboim | ||
| 1988 | David J. Vayo | |
| Douglas A. Scott | ||
| Behzad Ranjbaran | ||
| Gerald H. Plain | ||
| Mark Kilstofte | ||
| Timothy Geller | ||
| Richard Argosh | ||
| 1989 | Carolyn Yarnell | |
| Augusta Read Thomas | ||
| Suzanne Sheppard | ||
| Michael Ruszczynski | ||
| John P. Russo | ||
| Mark D. Johnson | ||
| Susan Harding | ||
| 1990 | William Waite | |
| Russell Platt | ||
| Troy Peters | ||
| Corinne Nordmann | ||
| Lowell Liebermann | ||
| John Kennedy | ||
| Jonathan Dawe | ||
| 1991 | Julia Wolfe | |
| Eric S. Sessler | ||
| Justin Davidson | ||
| Nathan Currier | ||
| John V. Costa | ||
| Edmund Campion | ||
| Kendall Durelle Briggs | ||
| 1992 | Geoffrey Stanton | |
| Andrew Rindfleisch | ||
| Kevin Puts | ||
| Mark Kuss | ||
| Jennifer Higdon | ||
| John Gibson | ||
| Evan Chambers | ||
| 1993 | Laura Schwendinger | |
| Anthony Kelley | ||
| Leslie Hogan | ||
| Lee Gannon | ||
| Sebastian Currier | ||
| Gia Comolli | ||
| Marco Beltrami | ||
| 1994 | Jason N. Uechi | |
| Augusta Read Thomas | ||
| Eric Sawyer | ||
| Erik Santos | ||
| John Halle | ||
| Miguel B. Chuaqui | ||
| 1995 | Daniel Worley | |
| Dalit Warshaw | ||
| Chris Theofanidis | ||
| Pawel Sydor | ||
| Daniel Ott | ||
| Dan Coleman | ||
| Carlos Carrillo | ||
| 1996 | David Taddie | |
| Luis Prado | ||
| Pablo Ortiz | ||
| Michael Nathaniel Hersch | ||
| Renee Favand | ||
| Kevin Beavers | ||
| Richard Adams | ||
| Dr. Carol Williams | ||
| 1997 | Barbara A. White | |
| Andrew Kirshner | ||
| Daniel Kellogg | ||
| Deniz Ince | ||
| Jennifer Higdon | ||
| Mason Bates | ||
| 1998 | David Sanford | |
| Helen Lee | ||
| Alexander H. Freeman | ||
| Dorothy Chang | ||
| Robert B. Carl | ||
| Christopher L. Brown | ||
| Martin Bresnick | ||
| 1999 | Robert Zimmerman | |
| Jason Roth | ||
| David Mallamud | ||
| Paul Yeon Lee | ||
| Roshanne Etezady | ||
| Steven Burke | ||
| 2000 | Gregory T. S. Walker | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez | ||
| Laurie San Martin | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Marcus Maroney] | ||
| John Kaefer | ||
| Sara Doncaster | ||
| Christina Ahn | ||
| 2001 | Chen Yi | Charles Ives Living |
| Erik Santos | Charles Ives Fellowship | |
| Russell Platt | ||
| Sally Lamb | ||
| Tom Swafford | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Jonathan Newman | ||
| Hubert Ho | ||
| Gabriela Frank | ||
| Michael Djupstrom | ||
| James Barry | ||
| 2002 | Leslie Hogan | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Mason Bates | ||
| Dmitri Tymoczko | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Gregory Spears | ||
| David Schober | ||
| Nathan Michel | ||
| Nancy Kho | ||
| Kati Agocs | ||
| 2003 | Barbara White | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Daniel Kellogg | ||
| Melissa Mazzoli | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Keeril Makan | ||
| David T. Little | ||
| James Lee, III | ||
| Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann | ||
| Anthony Cheung | ||
| 2004 | Stephen Hartke | Charles Ives Living |
| Harold Meltzer | Charles Ives Fellowship | |
| Kristin P. Kuster | ||
| Aaron J. Travers | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Jeff Myers | ||
| Tamar Muskal | ||
| Judd Greenstein | ||
| Judah Adashi | ||
| Kurt Rohde | Charles Ives Fellowship | |
| 2005 | Matthew Tommasini | Charles Ives Scholarship |
| Sean Shepherd | ||
| Manly Romero | ||
| Shawn Hundley | ||
| Ryan Anthony Francis | ||
| Aaron Einbond | ||
| 2006 | Yevgeniy Sharlat | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Anthony Cheung | ||
| Justin Messina | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Robinson McClellan | ||
| Steven Hoey | ||
| Shawn Crouch | ||
| 2007 | George Tsontakis | Charles Ives Living |
| Aleksandra Vrebalov | Charles Ives Fellowship | |
| Arlene Elizabeth Sierra | ||
| Orianna Webb | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Zachary R. Wadsworth | ||
| Jay Wadley | ||
| Dan Visconti | ||
| Trevor Gureckis | ||
| David Fulmer | ||
| 2008 | Stephen Hartke | Charles Ives Opera Prize |
| Kay Rhie | Charles Ives Fellowship | |
| Kati Agócs | ||
| Kate Soper | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| John Christian Orfe | ||
| Andrew McPherson | ||
| Ted Hearne | ||
| Jacob Bancks | ||
| Timo Andres | ||
| 2009 | Ray Lustig | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Yu-Hui Chang | ||
| Carolyn O'Brien | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Andrew Norman | ||
| David M. Gordon | ||
| Michael Gilbertson | ||
| Ryan Gallagher | ||
| Matthew Barnson | ||
| 2010 | Michael Djupstrom | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Anna Clyne | ||
| Roger Zare | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Jude Vaclavik | ||
| Clint Needham | ||
| Eric Nathan | ||
| Jesse Benjamin Jones | ||
| Shawn Allison] | ||
| 2011 | Jay Wadley | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Dan Visconti | ||
| Alex Mincek | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Bryan Jacobs | ||
| Louis Chiappetta | ||
| Christopher Cerrone | ||
| 2012 | Xi Wang | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Harry Stafylakis | ||
| Chris Rogerson | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| James Matheson | ||
| Wang Jie | ||
| Takuma Itoh | ||
| David Hertzberg | ||
| Sean Friar | ||
| Niccolo Athens | ||
| 2013 | Ted Hearne | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| David Fulmer | ||
| Elizabeth Ogonek | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Michael Lee | ||
| Tonia Ko | ||
| Patrick Harlin | ||
| Stephen Feigenbaum | ||
| Joshua Cody | ||
| 2014 | Dan Tepfer | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Nathan Shields | ||
| Nina C. Young | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Daniel Schlosberg | ||
| Jeremy Podgursky | ||
| Balint Karosi | ||
| David Kirkland Garner | ||
| William David Cooper | ||
| 2015 | Erin Gee | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Jason Eckardt | ||
| Christopher Trapani | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Polina Nazaykinskaya | ||
| Max Grafe | ||
| Paul Frucht | ||
| Emily Cooley | ||
| Julia Adolphe | ||
| 2016 | Liliya Ugay | Charles Ives Scholarship |
| Sonnet Swire | ||
| Jeffrey Parola | ||
| Dylan Mattingly | ||
| Scott Lee | ||
| Thomas Kotcheff | ||
| 2017 | Ryan Chase | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Sid Richardson | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Hilary Purrington | ||
| Sky Macklay | ||
| William Healy | ||
| 2018 | Peter S. Shin | Charles Ives Scholarship |
| Sunbin Kim | ||
| Eli Greenhoe | ||
| Jack Frerer | ||
| Jonathan Cziner | ||
| Theo Chandler | ||
| 2019 | Miles Walter | Charles Ives Scholarship |
| Marco-Adrian Ramos Rodriguez | ||
| Paul Mortilla | ||
| Sato Matsui | ||
| 2020 | Matthew Ricketts | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Jason Mulligan | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| David Clay Mettens | ||
| Nate May | ||
| Huijuan Ling | ||
| Aaron Israel Levin | ||
| 2021 [3] | Gabriel Kahane | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Narong Prangcharoen | ||
| William Dougherty | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Alexis Lamb | ||
| Ehud Perlman | ||
| Frances Pollock | ||
| Joel Thompson | ||
| Shelley Washington | ||
| 2022 [4] | Leila Adu-Gilmore | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Sungji Hong | ||
| Brittany Green | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Marco Jimenez | ||
| Paul Novak | ||
| Nicole Russell | ||
| Michael Seltenreich | ||
| Kari Watson | ||
| 2023 [5] | Charles Peck | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Peter Shin | ||
| Seare Farhat | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Jordyn Gallinek | ||
| Luke Haaksma | ||
| Ali Can Puskulcu | ||
| Harriet Steinke | ||
| Bethany Younge | ||
| 2024 [6] | Fang Man | Charles Ives Fellowship |
| Susie Ibarra | ||
| Elise Arancio | Charles Ives Scholarship | |
| Jacob Beranek | ||
| Luke Blackburn | ||
| Liam Cummins | ||
| Isaac Santos | ||
| Justin Weiss | ||
| Sean Shepherd | Charles Ives Living |
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