Each month, the YoungArts Community Spotlight highlights upcoming events, projects and press from YoungArts past winners, guest artists and panelists.
In the News
- Starla Breshears (2024, 2025 Classical Music) highlighted in the San Francisco Chronicle for her first season with the San Francisco Symphony
- Andre Deosaran (2019 Dance) featured on The Today Show with Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
- Khaos Kook (2025 Writing, 2026 Writing & Classical Music) highlighted in The Times of India
- Shamel Pitts (2003 Dance) on the cover of the September 2026 issue of Dance Magazine
- Chris Santiago (2021 Jazz) featured in Florida Weekly’s Legends Radio Local Artist Spotlight
- Ian Stegeman (2024 Dance) and Cameron Voorhees (2026 Dance) highlighted in Dance Spirit
- Joy Sunday’s (2014 Film) Road to the Emmy’s featured in V Magazine
- Tyler Jordan Wesley (2021 Theater) in SPRING AWAKENING Off-Broadway revival, featured in Broadway World
Kudos
- Leticia Bajuyo (Visual Arts National Selection Panel Chair) receives the Outstanding Educator Award by the International Sculpture Center
- Joie Bianco (2019 Voice) named Semifinalist for 2026 Herbie Hancock Institute International Jazz Vocals Competition taking place October 10-11 in Paris
- Niamh Carmichael (2026 Writing) named Emory University Woodruff Scholar (Oxford Campus)
- Jolie Demesmin (2025 Voice) performed at the Springfield Jazz and Blues Festival with a tribute to Nancy Wilson
- Vince Gilligan (1985 Visual Arts) won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Drama Series for Pluribus
- Hsing-ay Hsu (1995 Classical Music & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) joining Juilliard Extension Division as a new faculty member teaching piano and chamber music
- Lance Oppenheim (2014 Film & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) premiered Primetime at 83rd Venice Film Festival
- Elena Pinderhughes (2013 Jazz, Voice & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) releasing new album, i hope you feel it too
- Immanuel Wilkins (2015, 2016 Jazz) named 2026 MacArthur Fellow
- Laila Wilson (2019 Writing) selected for Soho House 2026 Mentorship Program
- Emi Wong Shing (2026 Writing) named 2026 Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate
- Joseph Wood III (2013 Theater) has a leading role in indie thriller CRASH OUT, now playing on Amazon Prime
On the Calendar
- June Cavlan (2020 Jazz) performing at Birdland Jazz Club in New York, NY on October 25
- Hsing-ay Hsu (1995 Classical Music & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) presents “The Compromise of Space (Dance/Music)” with guest dancer Caroline Frank in her Classical Music Exploration Series in New York, NY on October 2
- Raditya Muljadi (2025, 2026 Classical Music) presenting Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto no. 1, opus 23 at the Health & Wellness Community Orchestra Orchestra Season Opener “Young Talent” in Fort Collins, CO on October 4
- Sophie Pollono (2021, 2022, 2023 Theater) starring in world premiere musical LIKE FATHER at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA from October 8-November 15
- Jordan Rice (2020 Theater) making her Broadway debut alongside Nia Otchere-Sarfo (2019 Theater) in Manhattan Theatre Club’s School Girls; Or the African Mean Girl’s Play, running through November 1
- Mallorie Sievert’s (2020 Theater & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) new play The City-Women, winner of the Inaugural CMU Press New Play Contest in 2025, will be published and receive an industry reading featuring Jess Darrow (2013 Theater) and Rebbekah Vega-Romero (2005 Writing) at St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York, NY on October 6
- Taige Wang (2026 Classical Music) will headline MusicON Festival Season 5 Opening Concert in New York, NY on October 3
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