2025 Department of Music Award Recipients

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Department of Music Awards:

• Carol and Peter Polk Music Award (Instrumental or Vocal Performance)
  Eric Wang, guitar
• The Blew-Culley-LaFollette Prize (Piano Performance)
  Katie Liu
• Daniel V. Robinson Prize (Instrumental Performance)
  Erica Wang, flute
• Rita Taylor Prize (Vocal Performance)
  Rachelle Weiss, mezzo-soprano
• Patrick Butler Prize (Piano Performance)
  Oscar Paz-Suaznabar
• Marie Gibson Prize (Vocal Performance)
  Sarah Lewis, soprano
• Costanza Prize for Cello Performance
  Abigail Rogers, cello
• Friends of Music Graduate Prize in Music (Vocal or Instrumental Performance)
  Ifan Jenkin, bass-baritone
• Glen & Barbara Smerage Violin Performance Prize
  Susan Lee
• Glen & Barbara Smerage Chamber Music Performance Prize
  Sean Mori, violin
  Maya Benyas, cello
  Justin Choo, piano 
• Geoff Nuttall Friends of Music Chamber Music Award
  Alice Kuartet:
  Daniel Sun, flute
  Sunstone Shi, clarinet
  Cindy Liu, oboe
  Alice Ku, bassoon 

• Friends of Music Undergraduate Composition Award
  Zac Dulkin

Congratulations to all our prize winners! The department and Friends of Music at Stanford will present the Department of Music Award Winners Concerts with two different programs in Campbell Recital Hall at the Braun Music Center on Friday, May 9, at 12:00 PM and 2:30 PM. These programs, free and open to the public, will feature the students listed above.