Overview | Mission | Leadership | History

Overview

Artist Presentation Society encourages and promotes exceptional young musicians, giving them public performance opportunities during the early stages of their careers.

The Society holds annual auditions to select highly accomplished performers in Missouri and South-Central Illinois. Winners of the auditions are presented in public recital in St. Louis and receive significant monetary awards.

Since the formation of the Society in 1947, more than 160 audition winners have delighted audiences with their performances. Some of the previous winners have achieved international fame. Others have established careers as music educators and as members of symphony orchestras and opera companies.

Artist Presentation Society expands its reach to the community by partnering with local cultural organizations to create additional performance opportunities for young musicians
and to make classical music more accessible to a wider audience.
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Mission

Artist Presentation Society seeks to shine the spotlight on the musical stars of tomorrow and to develop audiences for classical music. The Society focuses on:

  • Presenting outstanding young musicians in recital

  • Encouraging the development of supportive, knowledgeable and enthusiastic
    audiences for concerts presented by the Society

  • Collaborating with selected regional cultural organizations to make classical
    music more accessible to the community, particularly to the younger generation.

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Leadership

Board of Directors

Persis Mehta, President
Katja Georgieff, Vice President
Shirley Kronemer, Recording Secretary

Ben Settle, Treasurer

Minoo Mehta, Corresponding Secretary
George Bude
Mary Bude
Allison Felter

Pat Fogle

Frances Gillett

John Gross

Miran Halen

Barbara Liberman

Mary Lieber

Noémi Neidorff

James Pierce

Joy Pierce

Marsha Rusnack

Virginia Settle


Advisory Council

Jim Connett
Joanne Kohn
Allen C. Larson
Charles MacKay
Priscilla McDonnell

Josephine Throdahl
Donna Wilkinson

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History

Artist Presentation Society was established in 1947 by Irene and Stuart Chambers to provide performance opportunities for talented young musicians in the St. Louis area.

Originally called the Artist Presentation Committee, the members were music teachers who hoped to open doors for their most gifted students by presenting them in solo recital. In November 1948, Articles of Incorporation were legally adopted and the Artist Presentation Committee began operations as a not-for-profit organization. The Committee flourished under the leadership of Irene Chambers, its first president. The organization adopted the current name of Artist Presentation Society in 1953.

A music critic of one of St. Louis's newspapers at that time commented: "Now I have seen everything! Never had I expected to see a group of music teachers working together to give some young folks a break regardless of whose pupils they were."

Since its early days, the Society has undergone several changes, but the core of the founders' vision of encouraging outstanding young musicians remains unchanged.
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