The Score | Career High

Avery Fisher Career Grants of $25,000 each were awarded this spring to four recipients: pianist Henry Kramer, violinist Angelo Xiang Yu, piano duo Christina and Michelle Naughton, and the JACK Quartet. This year marks the first time a piano duo has been awarded a Fisher career grant. At a ceremony on March 14 at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at New York City’s WQXR classical radio station, the recipients were given their awards and performed; the performance was recorded for a radio broadcast and webstream on WQXR in April. Since 1976, 153 career grants have been awarded through the program. Former recipients include pianists Kirill Gerstein and Yuja Wang; violinists Augustin Hadelich and Hilary Hahn; clarinetist Anthony McGill; and the Dover Quartet. The Avery Fisher Artist Program also awards the annual Avery Fisher Award of $100,000, which went most recently to violinist Leila Josefowicz.