20 Years of Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Awards / Show 472

About

We’re celebrating a major milestone: our 20-year partnership with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Foundation’s own 25th birthday. Thanks to their generosity we’ve awarded 428 remarkable young artists with financial need with $4.2 million in instruments, private lessons, program tuition, college audition trips, and much more. You’ll hear from the executive director of the Foundation as well as some of our illustrious alumni who have gone on to major careers in music after receiving the Award as teens.

Guests

• Host: Peter Dugan
  Peter Dugan's position is sponsored by Susan and Gerald Slavet.

Performers & Repertoire

• Callisto Quartet (featuring Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award alum Hannah Moses)

  String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": III. Scherzo. Allegro molto - Trio by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
• Flutist Anthony Trionfo

  Flute Sonata, WV 86: I. Allegro moderato by Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942)
• Violinist and Arts Leader Karen Cueva

  Symphony No. 2 in D Major: I. Allegro presto, by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799), performed by the Du Bois Orchestra
• Mezzo-Soprano Samantha Hankey

  "Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle" from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
• Giuseppe Basilli, Executive Director, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
• Pianist Clayton Stephenson

  Three Movements from Petrushka: II. Chez Petrouchka by Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
• Isidore String Quartet (featuring Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award alum Phoenix Avalon)

  String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127: IV. Allegro by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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Release Date

• Monday, October 20, 2025

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Support Provided By

Special thanks to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and congratulations on 25 extraordinary years!

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