GWENDOLYN ROBERTS
YOUNG ARTIST AUDITIONS
First Place Winners - 1953 to Present
2026 - Agnese Gallenzi, soprano (student of Diane Ketchie-Saar)
2025 - Joanna Kim, soprano (student of Lynn Helding)
2024 - Sean Stanton, baritone (student of Lynn Helding)
2023 - Veronica Robinson, soprano (student of Dr. Katharin Rundus)
2022 - Claire Pegram, soprano (student of Elizabeth Hynes)
2021 - No contests
2020 - No contests
2019 - Erin Alford, mezzo-soprano (student of Shigemi Matsumoto)
2018 - Joel Balzun, baritone (self-sponsored)
2017 - No applicants/No winners
2016 - No applicants/No winners
2015 - Tyler Reece, baritone (student of Linda Di Fiore)
2014 - Christina Bristow, soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
2013 - Shabnam Kalbasi, mezzo-soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
2012 - Emma-Grace Dunbar, soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
2011 - Xiaobo Su, soprano (student of Elizabeth Hynes)
2010 - Heather Reithmeir, soprano (student of Patricia Prunty)
2009 - No winners
2008 - Jacquelynne Fontaine, soprano (student of Gary Glaze)
2007 - Hee Kyung Kim, soprano (student of Dr. Kathleen Roland-Silverstein)
2006 - Career Division: Evan Brummel, lyric baritone (student of Patrick Goeser)
Apprentice Division: Scott Johnson (student of Gary Glaze)
2005 - Career Division: Erica Miller, soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
Apprentice Division: Tyler Thompson, baritone (student of Dr. Gerald Seminatore)
2004 - Angela Meade, soprano (student of Gary Glaze)
2003 - Career Division: Randall Bills, tenor (student of Gary Glaze)
Apprentice Division: Elisa Kaufman (student of Cynthia Munzer)
2002 - Career Division: Heather Calvete, soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
Apprentice Division: Elisa Kaufman (student of Cynthia Munzer)
2001 - Career Division: Laura Decher, soprano
Apprentice Division: Daniel Klein, baritone
2000 - Career Division: Kristin Rothfuss, mezzo-soprano (student of Cynthia Munzer)
Apprentice Division: Angela Magoren (student of Patricia Gee)
1999 - Career Division: Jessica Rivera, soprano (student of Elizabeth Hynes)
Apprentice Division: Katie Van Kooten, soprano (student of Dr. Jeanne Robison)
1998 - Career Division: Bruce Sledge, tenor (student of Gary Glaze)
Apprentice Division: Kjersti Glesnes, soprano (student of H. Shaw-Ristuccia)
1997 - Career Division: Adina Aaron, soprano (student of Nina Hinson)
Apprentice Division: Jackie Goldgorin, soprano (student of Janet Smith)
1996 - Career Division: Camelia Voin-Ploscariu, soprano (student of John Gruett)
Apprentice Division: Chris Fernandez, tenor (student of Patrick Goeser)
1995 - Career Division: Robert MacNeil, tenor (student of Patrick Goeser)
Apprentice Division: Julie De Vaere, mezzo-soprano (student of Jane Paul)
1994 - Career Division: David Kress, baritone (student of Nina Hinson)
Apprentice Division: Robert MacNeil, tenor (student of Patrick Goeser)
1993 - Career Division: John Nuzzo, tenor (student of Patrick Goeser)
Apprentice Division: Kristi Peterson, soprano
1992 - Career Division: Aram Barsamian, lyric baritone (student of Jane Paul)
Apprentice Division: Robbie Anton Britt, bass-baritone
1991 - Career Division: Frances Young, soprano (student of Nina Hinson)
Apprentice Division: Aram Barsamian, baritone (student of Jane Paul)
1990 - Melody Rossi, mezzo-soprano (student of Nina Hinson)
1989 - Bruce Johnson, tenor (student of Nina Hinson)
1988 - LeRoy Villanueva, baritone (student of Natalie Limonick)
1987 - Career Division: Lisa Livingston, mezzo-soprano (student of Violet Mesrop-McMahon)
Apprentice Division: Frances Young, soprano (student of Nina Hinson)
1986 - Career Division: Anne Marie Bosche, soprano (student of Margaret Quon)
Apprentice Division: Steven Dunham, tenor (student of Patrick Goeser)
1985 - Career Division: Jamée Ard, mezzo-soprano (student of Nina Hinson)
Apprentice Division: Donald Christensen, baritone (student of Patrick Goeser)
1984 - Deborah Voigt, soprano (student of Jane Paul)
1983 - Christopher Deane, bass (student of Kathleen Darragh)
1982 - Steffanie Pearce, lyric coloratura (student of Kathleen Darragh)
1981 - Everlita Rivera, soprano (student of Margaret Schaper)
1980 - Andrew Wentzel, bass-baritone (student of Burton Garlinghouse)
1979 - Jonathan Mack, tenor (student of Burton Garlinghouse)
1978 - Yvonne Hannamann, soprano (student of Leona Roberts)
1977 - No winner
1976 - Shirley Close, mezzo-soprano (student of Burton Garlinghouse)
1975 - Rose Marie Harris, soprano
1974 - Janet Payne, soprano
1973 - No information
1972 - No information
1971 - Polly Jo Baker, soprano (student of Florence Russell)
1970 - James Wagner, tenor (student of Seth Riggs)
1969 - Karen Yarmat, mezzo-soprano (student of Patricia Baker)
1968 - Kathleen Martin, soprano (student of Josephine Lott); Frank Spencer, baritone; Margaret Dehning, soprano (student of Alice Mock)
1967 - Delphine Fahringer, soprano (student of Ruth Chamlee)
1966 - Richard Allen (student of Josephine Lott)
1965 - No winner
1964 - Kean Mantius (student of Anthony Scott)
1963 - Joseph Holmes (student of Richard Dresdner)
1962 - Carol Plantamura (student of Dr. Lewellyn Roberts)
1961 - Bernice Mathison (student of Ruth Chamlee)
1960 - Bruce Tuthill (student of Caroline Allingham)
1959 - Nancy Cockly (student of Irene Blades)
1958 - Edmund Victor Hurst (student of Caroline Allingham)
1957 - Alma Piazza Shirley, coloratura soprano (student of Wade Ferguson)
1956 - Judith Reed, soprano
1955 - Marlene Avila (student of Patricia Baker)
1954 - Dolores Davis, coloratura soprano (student of Ruth Chamlee)
1953 - Ruth Miller, soprano (student of Wilda Bernard)