# Charles Ives Prize

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.

## Winners

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