Avery Fisher Career Grants to Violinist, Cellist, and String Quartet

In Tuesday’s (3/18) Strad (U.K.), an unsigned report states, “The administrators of the Avery Fisher Artist Program in the U.S. have named the recipients of the 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grants. Violinist Joshua Brown, cellist Tommy Mesa and the Viano Quartet will all receive grants worth $25,000 ‘to be used for specific needs in advancing a career.’ Joshua Brown, 23, won the second prize and audience awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels [and] received first prizes at the 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in China, and the 2019 Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition in Germany…. He is currently studying for an artist diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music … Cuban–American cellist Tommy Mesa received the Sphinx Organization’s 2023 Medal of Excellence. In January, it was announced that he would be joining the strings faculty of the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) as of the autumn 2025 semester. Mesa is an alumnus of the MSM, having received his Doctor of Musical Arts there in 2023…. The Viano Quartet, comprising violinists Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violist Aiden Kane, and cellist Tate Zawadiuk, received the first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. The group has also won prizes at the Wigmore Hall, Osaka, Fischoff, Enkor, and Yellow Springs chamber music competitions, and is currently in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program … Since 1976, 179 Avery Fisher Career Grants have been awarded … all recipients are currently active musicians.”