Prizes Everywhere! Your Chance To Influence Classical Music

I will look. Your description makes the competition sound wonderful.

If you are interested in serious robust online arts competitions check out Baltimore's 2010 Baker Artist Awards site - http://www.bakerartistawards.org - and tell us what you think. The Baker Artist Awards is a program of Baltimore’s The William Baker, Jr. Memorial Trust.

Artist nominees must be 21 years of age and live in Baltimore or a specified surrounding area. Visitors 18 years of age or older can sign up and participate as users/voters.

This unique site allows artists working in any discipline (or multiple disciplines) to submit a large amount of their work to nominate themselves for two different prizes. Private jury awards the three $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prizes, whereas the five $1,000 Peoples Choice prizes are based on the outcome of popular vote. Read site for details.

The site accepts images, video, audio and text files so artists can fully represent themselves. There is ample room provided for artists to write bio information and go into detail regarding their works. There are also comment and share features.

This is the Baker Artist Awards second year. The first year over 650 artists participated along with over tens of thousands of voters from all over the world. Award winners also are included in a group exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

But the awards are more than just a competition; the site exposes the world to the varied dynamic work created by artists working in the Baltimore region.

For more information contact us at gbca@baltimoreculture.org or thelab@bakerartistawards.org.

It certainly is interesting to see where "Dilettante" will go - I've met the founders and they are very eager and motivated people.

But I just want to try and correct something:

I don't think Wilton's is the "oldest surviving music hall" in the world, unless there is some special meaning to "music hall" that I'm not aware of. It's not the most reliable of sources, but Wikipedia says that the music hall was built in 1858 on the site of a pub, and rebuilt in 1877 after a fire. By contrast, Oxford's Holywell Music Room (which also claims to be the oldest yada yada) was built in 1742, and has been in continuous use as a concert hall since then.

Tim

I agree, I like the voting process as well. What the experts say, may not be the same as what the majority of the people think. I am very interested to see how this turns out.