AFTER MUCH DELIBERATION, THE RESULTS ARE IN…

We are pleased to announce the winners for the Annual Donald Wood Sr. Vocal Competition for the 2024-2025 school year are:

Congratulations to the winners and a huge thank you to all the competitors!

The Donald W. Wood Sr. Winners will be invited to be featured in a winners’ concert during the 2025 Tulane Vocal Arts Festival & Symposium set for Sunday, September 28, 2025 (Time, TBD). All winners are invited to participate in one of the Festival’s master classes and are welcome to attend all Tulane Vocal Arts Festival & Symposium events. 

A special 'thank you' to Amy Pfrimmer, Professor of Music and the Lilian Gerson Watsky Professor in Voice at Tulane University, where she has been voice area coordinator and director of the vocal music concert series since 2007. Her repertoire and creative work encompasses a wide range of music, with particular focus on Romantic and 20th-century opera, oratorio, concert literature, and song. We are proud to have her judge the 2024-2025 Donald W. Wood Sr. Vocal Competition. Thank you Amy Pfrimmer!

FIRST PLACE WINNER: JONATHAN TRAN

Senior, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

First time competing in the Wood Competition

Vocal Instructor: Phyllis Treigle

SECOND PLACE WINNER:  SUSANA CUARTAS

Junior, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana, Participated previously in the Wood Competition,

Vocal Instructor: Phyllis Treigle

 THIRD PLACE WINNER:   TYREE ARSO

Senior, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

First time competing in the Wood Competition

Vocal Instructor: Phyllis Treigle

HONORABLE MENTION: LILY ADAMS

Junior, St. Mary’s Dominican High School, New Orleans, Louisiana

First time competing in the Wood Competition

Vocal Instructor: Lauren Mouney Gisclair

Participating schools and cities: 

Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana

Benjamin Franklin High School/NOCCA New Orleans, Louisiana

Eleanor McMain Secondary School/New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

Mount Carmel Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

St. Mary’s Dominican High School, New Orleans, Louisiana