CMS announces the nine individual artists and one ensemble selected for The Bowers Program, a highly competitive three season residency in which participants perform, tour, and teach alongside CMS artists.
This year’s participants in The Bowers Program were chosen from an international pool of 168 candidates. The nine individual artists and one ensemble, who hail from seven countries (including the U.S.), range in age from 22 to 32 and are award winners and recipients of the world’s most prestigious classical music honors for young musicians, including the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Van Cliburn Competition, Young Concert Artists Competition, Elmar Oliveira Competition, and the Banff International String Quartet Competition, among many others.
The Bowers Program began as “CMS Two” in 1994 and was renamed after Ann S. Bowers in 2018, in recognition of her leadership donation to CMS to secure the development of the next generation of outstanding young musicians. Over the course of its history, 101 individual artists and 11 ensembles have completed the program, many of whom have gone on to become the world's leading classical musicians.
