Many thanks to our pianist, Christopher Zemliauskas and

judges Robert Ainsley, John Rozzoni, and Lynn Craver

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Generously sponsored by Bruno Schickel and Amy Dickinson, the competition recognizes outstanding emerging singers in the operatic field as well as pays homage to the lifetime achievement of the late Maestro Edward M. Murray who served twenty-five years as the director of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra and over twenty years as the music director of the former Ithaca Opera Association.​