Congratulations to the Winners of the
27th Annual Sphinx Competition
2024 Senior Division Laureates
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1st Place, Robert Frederick Smith Prize - Nathan Amaral
Violin
Hometown: Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil
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2nd Place - Aaron Olguin
Bass
Hometown: The Colony, TX
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3rd Place - Bethlehem Kelley
Violin
Hometown: Lenexa, KS
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2024 Junior Division Laureates
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Ana Isabella España - 1st Place
Violin
Hometown: New York, NY
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Rebecca Beato - 2nd Place
Violin
Forest Hills, NY
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Sonya Moomaw - 3rd Place
Cello
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
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Sphinx Organization is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts. Our four program areas – Education & Access, Artist Development, Performing Artists, and Arts Leadership – form a pipeline that develops and supports diversity and inclusion in classical music at every level: creative youth development, artist empowerment, and career advancement, administrative leadership, as well as service to the field.
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Meet the 2024 Sphinx Medals of
Excellence Honorees
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Kalena Bovell
Conductor
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Sterling Elliott
Cello
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David Portillo
Tenor
The Sphinx Medal of Excellence is the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization, the social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, and comes with a $50,000 career grant. The medal recognizes extraordinary Black and Latinx classical musicians. Recipients are artists who early in their career demonstrate artistic excellence, outstanding work ethic, a spirit of determination, and an ongoing commitment to leadership and their communities.
“The Sphinx Organization has given to me something that each and every artist of color needs as much as air: encouragement.”
— Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient